kfifo_reset_out(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ kfifo_reset_out ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the kfifo_reset_out(9) page — straight out of the Kernel API Manual, no cap 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

kfifo_reset_out — skip fifo content

like, it literally just skips the content of the fifo. that's the whole vibe 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kfifo_reset_out (fifo );

yes that trailing space and semicolon are real, copy it exactly, don't come for me 😭

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • fifo — address of the fifo to be used 👑 give it the address of the fifo you're working with, that's it, that's the whole argument.

⚠️ NOTE ⚠️

okay so pay attention here because this one's got conditions 🫶

the usage of kfifo_reset_out is safe until it will be only called from the reader thread — and there is only one concurrent reader.

otherwise? it is dangerous 💀 and must be handled in the same way as kfifo_reset. periodt.

no cap — if you've got more than one reader or you're calling it from somewhere that isn't the reader thread, you're in dangerous territory and you need to do the kfifo_reset treatment. don't skip the vibe check on this one 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole kfifo friend group, all linked from Kernel file ./include/linux/kfifo.h — literally iconic, every single one:

and that's the whole page bestie, go skip some fifo content responsibly 💜

this little cutie lives in ./include/linux and the version/date stamp on it is October 2026 — so you know it's fresh ✨ mwah, bye 🎀

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