llc_ui_setsockopt(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 llc_ui_setsockopt — a Kernel API Manual moment (section 9, bestie)

okay so real talk: this is llc_ui_setsockopt(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and she is exactly what she says on the tin — she sets various connection specific parameters ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

llc_ui_setsockopt — set various connection specific parameters. that's it, that's the whole gig 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int llc_ui_setsockopt (struct socket *sock , int level , int optname ,
       sockptr_t optval , unsigned int optlen );

like… look at her. five arguments, zero notes 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • sock — the socket you're setting options on. your main character socket, if you will 👑
  • level — the socket level the user is requesting operations on. which floor of the socket building are we on, bestie 🏢
  • optname — the operation name. the what of it all ⭐
  • optval — user provided operation data. the actual payload, the lore, the substance 🍓
  • optlen — length of optval. gotta know how much data we're dealing with, no cap 📏

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Set various connection specific parameters.

and honestly? that's the assignment. she sets them, she's iconic, she doesn't overexplain herself 🙈✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie you are NOT ready for this friend group, it's giving whole-networking-stack reunion 🫶

Kernel file ./net/llc/af_llc.c — and then, in no particular order because they all just live here rent free:

💀 note that llc_ui_getsockopt(9) is literally right there at the end — the getter to her setter. soulmates. iykyk.

and that's the page!! 🎀 this lil beauty lives in ./net/llc and was stamped October 2026, so go forth and set those connection specific parameters, bestie — slay 💜🦋🔥

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