parse_header(9)

🎀 parse_header(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for parse_header(9) — the little function that parses policy header information, and we're gonna vibe-check it together 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

parse_header — parse policy header information. no cap, that's the whole name section, and it ate ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the signature, literally copy-paste core:

int parse_header (char *line , struct ipe_parsed_policy *p );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• line — supplies the header line to be parsed, bestie. it's the line going in 🫶
• p — supplies the partial parsed policy, aka the policy that's only partway parsed 💅

🔥 RETURN 🔥

the return value said, and this is the whole list:

• 0 — Success. slay, we love a clean win ✨
• -EBADMSG — Header string is invalid. it's giving bad message, so no 💀
• -ENOMEM — Out of memory (OOM). the classic memory situation, crying 😭
• -ERANGE — Version number overflow. too much version number, bestie 🫠
• -EINVAL — Version parsing error. version parsing did not eat, unfortunately 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go show these some love too, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./security/ipe/policy_parser.c
• new_parsed_policy(9)
• remove_comment(9)
• remove_trailing_spaces(9)
• parse_version(9)
• token_default(9)
• free_rule(9)
• parse_operation(9)
• parse_action(9)
• parse_property(9)
• parse_rule(9)
• ipe_free_parsed_policy(9)
• validate_policy(9)
• ipe_parse_policy(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie !! brought to you by source/version ./security/ipe, dated October 2026, and yes this iconic little manual page is parse_header(9) 💅✨