key_write_idx(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 key_write_idx(9) — like, the whole manual, but make it make sense

okay so real talk: this is key_write_idx from the Kernel API Manual (that's the manual name, bestie, we're in the kernel section 🐧), and it's genuinely one of those tiny lil functions that does one job and does it slayfully. no drama, no surprises — it just takes a key that's chilling in in-memory format and transforms it into the format the index wants. periodt. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

key_write_idx — transform a key from in-memory format for the index. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void key_write_idx (const struct ubifs_info *c , const union ubifs_key
*from , void *to );

it returns void, so like… don't go looking for a return value, she gives you nothing back and she's iconic for it 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • c — the UBIFS file-system description object. your context, your main character, the whole setting of the scene ✨
  • from — the key to transform. this is the one getting the glow-up 💅
  • to — the key to store the result. this is where the transformed key lands, no cap 🍓

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where the page just. lists everyone. the whole friend group. all of them live in the kernel file ./fs/ubifs/key.h, and honestly the way this roster goes on… it's giving group chat with 33 members and everyone's typing 😭

like?? thirty-three entries. she said "let me introduce you to everybody" and then actually did it 💀 but fr fr, if you're poking around keys in UBIFS, this is your reading list and every single one of them is right there in ./fs/ubifs/key.h 🧚

ngl there's no RETURN VALUE section and no ERRORS section here — the function is void, so there's literally nothing coming back. don't manifest a return code that isn't in the source, bestie 🙈

👑 the sign-off 👑

and that's the page!! sourced from ./fs/ubifs, stamped October 2026, and yeah the footer still says key_write_idx(9) because the footer is nothing if not consistent 💜 go transform some keys, you absolute legend — mwah 💋🌈⭐

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