match_octal(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so welcome to match_octal(9) from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖. match_octal scans an octal representation of an integer from a substring_t. That’s the whole vibe ✨.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int match_octal (substring_t *s , int *result );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• s — the substring_t to be scanned 👀
• result — the resulting integer on success 🎉

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Attempts to parse the substring_t s as an octal integer. That’s it, that’s the mission 💅.

🌈 RETURN 🌈

On success, it sets result to the integer represented by the string and returns 0 🫶. On failure, it returns -EINVAL or -ERANGE 😭. No cap, those are the failure returns listed here.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./lib/parser.c has the whole friend group 💜:

• match_one(9)
• match_token(9)
• match_number(9)
• match_u64int(9)
• match_int(9)
• match_uint(9)
• match_u64(9)
• match_hex(9)
• match_wildcard(9)
• match_strlcpy(9)
• match_strdup(9)

sign-off era: this icon was served by ./lib, October 2026 edition — mwah 💋✨