relay_file_poll(9)

🌸 relay_file_poll(9) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this is the lil page about relay_file_poll, and honestly? it's a whole mood. short, sweet, and it does exactly one thing. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

relay_file_poll — the poll file op for relay files 💅

like, literally the poll operation, but make it relay. that's the vibe check.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

__poll_t relay_file_poll (struct file *filp , poll_table *wait );

look at that signature. gorgeous. no cap. 🌈

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• filp — the file 🎀 (yes, THE file. the one you're polling. main character energy fr)
• wait — poll table ⭐ (the poll table. it's giving very necessary. it's giving required.)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Poll implemention. 💀

that's it. that's the whole description. the manpage said what it said and honestly? iconic. not me being obsessed with how little they gave us 😭 it's a poll implementation, that's the entire bit, periodt.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file ./kernel/relay.c, plus the whole relay bestie squad 👑 —

• relay_mmap_prepare_buf(9)
• relay_alloc_buf(9)
• relay_create_buf(9)
• relay_destroy_channel(9)
• relay_destroy_buf(9)
• relay_remove_buf(9)
• relay_buf_empty(9)
• relay_buf_full(9)
• wakeup_readers(9)
• __relay_reset(9)
• relay_reset(9)
• relay_close_buf(9)
• relay_open(9)
• relay_switch_subbuf(9)
• relay_subbufs_consumed(9)
• relay_close(9)
• relay_flush(9)
• relay_stats(9)
• relay_file_open(9)
• relay_file_mmap_prepare(9)
• relay_file_release(9)
• relay_file_read_subbuf_avail(9)
• relay_file_read_start_pos(9)
• relay_file_read_end_pos(9)

like, go read them. all of them. they're all in ./kernel/relay.c and they're all serving 🔥

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and that's the page!! 🦋 this lil icon came from the ./kernel source, version dated October 2026 — mwah, love that for us 💜 bye bestie, go poll something 🧚‍♀️✨