key_type(9)

💖 NAME 💖

key_type — get key type. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int key_type (const struct ubifs_info *c , const union ubifs_key *key );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object 🫶 like, this is the whole filesystem's little ID card, bestie
• key — the key you wanna get the type of 🔑 (yes she's nosy, that's the job)

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/key.h — and honestly the whole key.h friend group showed up for this one, no cap:

• key_mask_hash(9)
• key_r5_hash(9)
• key_test_hash(9)
• ino_key_init(9)
• ino_key_init_flash(9)
• lowest_ino_key(9)
• highest_ino_key(9)
• dent_key_init(9)
• dent_key_init_hash(9)
• dent_key_init_flash(9)
• lowest_dent_key(9)
• xent_key_init(9)
• xent_key_init_flash(9)
• lowest_xent_key(9)
• data_key_init(9)
• highest_data_key(9)
• trun_key_init(9)
• invalid_key_init(9)
• key_type_flash(9)
• key_inum(9)
• key_inum_flash(9)
• key_hash(9)
• key_hash_flash(9)
• key_block(9)
• key_block_flash(9)
• key_read(9)
• key_write(9)
• key_write_idx(9)
• key_copy(9)
• keys_cmp(9)
• keys_eq(9)
• is_hash_key(9)
• key_max_inode_size(9)

💅 SIGN-OFF 💅

so this page lives in ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's page key_type(9) from the Kernel API Manual — go read her friends, they all ate 🔥👑

ily, go touch some kernel code 💜