parse_operation(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

parse_operation — Parse the operation type given a token string.

okay bestie, welcome to parse_operation(9), fresh from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the function that takes your token string and hands back the parsed operation type. Cute, focused, doing exactly one job 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum ipe_op_type parse_operation (char *t );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• t — Supplies the token string to be parsed. That's the token-string bestie right there; hand it over and let the parser do its thing 🫶

💖 RETURN 💖

The parsed operation type. Yes ma'am — that's the return value, no extra lore, no side quest 😌

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The kernel file is ./security/ipe/policy_parser.c, and these are the sibling references you should also peek at:

• new_parsed_policy(9)
• remove_comment(9)
• remove_trailing_spaces(9)
• parse_version(9)
• parse_header(9)
• token_default(9)
• free_rule(9)
• parse_action(9)
• parse_property(9)
• parse_rule(9)
• ipe_free_parsed_policy(9)
• validate_policy(9)
• ipe_parse_policy(9)

source/version: ./security/ipe · date: October 2026 — signing off from the parse_operation(9) page, mwah 💜