rpc_clone_client(9)

💅 rpc_clone_client(9) 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

rpc_clone_client — clone an RPC client structure 🫶 (it's giving copy-paste but make it kernel)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct rpc_clnt * rpc_clone_client (struct rpc_clnt *clnt );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• clnt — the RPC client whose parameters are copied 💖 literally the blueprint, the moment, the source of truth

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Returns a fresh RPC client or an ERR_PTR.

That's the whole vibe ngl — you hand it a client, you get a brand new one back, or you get an ERR_PTR if the universe said no 🙈. Check your return value, bestie, no cap. 😭

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The kernel file ./net/sunrpc/clnt.c is where the magic lives, and here's the whole friend group 👑

• rpc_create(9)
• rpc_clone_client_set_auth(9)
• rpc_switch_client_transport(9)
• rpc_clnt_iterate_for_each_xprt(9)
• rpc_cancel_tasks(9)
• rpc_hold_client(9)
• rpc_release_client(9)
• rpc_bind_new_program(9)
• rpc_run_task(9)
• rpc_call_sync(9)
• rpc_call_async(9)
• rpc_run_bc_task(9)
• rpc_prepare_reply_pages(9)
• rpc_peeraddr(9)
• rpc_peeraddr2str(9)
• rpc_localaddr(9)
• rpc_net_ns(9)
• rpc_max_payload(9)
• rpc_max_bc_payload(9)
• rpc_force_rebind(9)
• rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt(9)
• rpc_clnt_setup_test_and_add_xprt(9)
• rpc_clnt_add_xprt(9)

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and that's the page, periodt 💅 this lil beauty comes to you from ./net/sunrpc and it's dated October 2026 — write it down, screenshot it, tattoo it, whatever feels right 🧚💖✨