nla_get_msecs(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 nla_get_msecs (9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 🌸

Okay so this is a page out of the Linux kernel API manual (section 9, the kernel-flavoured one 💅) and honestly? It's short, it's sweet, and it does exactly one thing. Let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

nla_get_msecs — literally just returns the payload of a msecs attribute 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unsigned long nla_get_msecs (const struct nlattr *nla );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • nla — the msecs netlink attribute, that's her, that's the whole vibe 🦋

✨ RETURN ✨

She hands you back the number of milliseconds in jiffies. That's it, that's the tea ☕ no cap.

Heads up — the value comes back in jiffies, not raw milliseconds, so don't go treating it like a plain number without clocking that first, iykyk 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file ./include/net/netlink.h, plus literally the entire netlink extended family — grab a snack, this list is long 🍓:

And that's the whole page, bestie — go read something with more plot 💖

Sign-off time 🫶: this one lives under ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it's filed under section 9 of the kernel API manual. Slay. 💅✨

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