look_up_OID(9)
π look_up_OID(9) β a Kernel API Manual moment
okay so bestie, welcome to look_up_OID(9) from the Kernel API Manual, the lil function that is literally the main character of OID hunting β¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
look_up_OID β Find an OID registration for the specified data π
like, you hand it some bytes and it goes "oh hey i know her" and finds the OID registration. no cap.
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
enum OID look_up_OID (const void *data , size_t datasize );
that's it. that's the whole vibe check. π¦
π ARGUMENTS π
dataβ the Binary representation of the OID. the raw little byte bestie herself πdatasizeβ Size of the binary representation. aka how many bytes of OID we're serving, periodt π
π SEE ALSO π
- Kernel file
./lib/oid_registry.cβ go read the source, iykyk π parse_OID(9)β her sister function, also iconic π
ngl this page is short but it ate. no notes. π
and that's the whole thing bestie β this gorgeousness lives in ./lib, dated October 2026, and it's serving Kernel API Manual energy from start to finish π«Άπβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixpkgs unstable: linux-manual 7.3.1
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms