fscache_acquire_cookie(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for fscache_acquire_cookie(9), and it's literally about grabbing a cookie that represents a cache object. iconic behavior honestly 💅

🌸 NAME

  • fscache_acquire_cookie — Acquire a cookie to represent a cache object

✨ SYNOPSIS

       struct fscache_cookie * fscache_acquire_cookie (struct fscache_volume
       *volume , u8 advice , const void *index_key , size_t index_key_len ,
       const void *aux_data , size_t aux_data_len , loff_t object_size );

🎀 ARGUMENTS

  • volume — the volume where you locate/create this cookie, bestie. It's a struct fscache_volume *.
  • advice — the advice flags, exactly FSCACHE_COOKIE_ADV_*. flags girlie ✨
  • index_key — the index key for this cookie.
  • index_key_len — the size of the index key.
  • aux_data — the auxiliary data for the cookie, and yes, it may be NULL.
  • aux_data_len — the size of the auxiliary data buffer.
  • object_size — the initial size of object.

🍓 DESCRIPTION

Acquire a cookie to represent a data file within the given cache volume. slay 🍪

See Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.rst for a complete description. iykyk 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO

Kernel file ./include/linux/fscache.h, plus the whole squad:

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — source/version ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and the title is literally fscache_acquire_cookie(9) 💅✨

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