gss_mech_register(9)

✨ gss_mech_register(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-dev girlies know 👑) and we're about to talk about the one and only gss_mech_register 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

gss_mech_register — register a GSS mechanism 🦋

like literally, that's the whole job. put your GSS mechanism on the board. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int gss_mech_register (struct gss_api_mech *gm );

that's it. one function, one argument, int coming back at you 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• gm — GSS mechanism handle 🫶 (it's a struct gss_api_mech *, and yes she's the main character here)

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so the vibe check: you hand it a GSS mechanism and it registers it. that's the whole personality.

returns zero if successful 🎉 — or a negative errno if it's giving chaos 😭 so fr fr, check that return value, don't just vibe past it.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c — the source, go read her 💜
• gss_mech_unregister(9)
• gss_svc_to_pseudoflavor(9)
• gss_mech_info2flavor(9)
• gss_mech_flavor2info(9)

all the sisters in the GSS friend group, no cap 🌈

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and that's the page!! ngl this one was cute and short 🍓

sign-off time bestie: this whole thing comes from ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss, dated October 2026, and it's the Kernel API Manual version of gss_mech_register(9) 💖 go register something iconic ok byeee 🧚✨