reuseport_add_sock(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the reuseport_add_sock(9) manual page 💖 — this is the kernel API that’s literally about adding a socket to the reuseport group of another. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the function signature, copied with love and zero typos 🫶:

int reuseport_add_sock (struct sock *sk , struct sock *sk2 , bool
       bind_inany );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sk — the new socket you’re adding to the group. main character energy fr fr 💅
• sk2 — a socket that belongs to the existing reuseport group. iykyk 👑
• bind_inany — says whether or not the group is bound to a local INANY address. yes, that’s the whole vibe check 🌈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

real talk: this one may return ENOMEM and not add the socket to the group under memory pressure 😭💀. that’s the tea — no cap.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file: ./net/core/sock_reuseport.c ✨
• reuseport_select_sock(9) 🌟
• reuseport_migrate_sock(9) 💫

mwah 💋 — this page came from ./net/core and is dated October 2026. periodt. 🎀