gss_svc_to_pseudoflavor(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 gss_svc_to_pseudoflavor(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — we're literally in the kernel today, and yes this page is about gss_svc_to_pseudoflavor, which maps a GSS service number to a pseudoflavor 🎀

🦋 NAME 🦋

gss_svc_to_pseudoflavor — map a GSS service number to a pseudoflavor, no cap 💫

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rpc_authflavor_t gss_svc_to_pseudoflavor (struct gss_api_mech *gm , u32
qop , u32 service );

like, that's the whole vibe check right there 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • gm — the GSS mechanism handle, aka the main character of this function 🫶
  • qop — the GSS quality-of-protection value, it's giving security-flavored 💜
  • service — the GSS service value, iconic little u32 ✨

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So basically it returns a matching security flavor 💅 — and if it can't find one? it returns RPC_AUTH_MAXFLAVOR instead 😭 that's the fallback bestie, no match, no flavor, periodt.

ngl the whole function is literally two outcomes: found it 🌈 or RPC_AUTH_MAXFLAVOR 💀

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

First up, the kernel file 🧚, right here:

  • ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c

and then the whole friend group 👯:

and that's the page bestie 🍓 — brought to you by ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss, dated October 2026, mwah 💖🫶

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