rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(9)

🫶 rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(9) 🫶

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(9), and it’s giving “small kernel helper with main character energy.” ✨

✨ NAME ✨

rpc_gssd_dummy_populate — create a dummy gssd pipe. That’s it, that’s the name, no cap. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int rpc_gssd_dummy_populate (struct dentry *root , struct rpc_pipe
*pipe_data );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• root — root of the rpc_pipefs filesystem. Like, the literal root-root. 🌱
• pipe_data — pipe data created when netns is initialized. That’s the whole description, bestie, we’re not adding lore. 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Create a dummy set of directories and a pipe that gssd can hold open to indicate that it is up and running. So yes: dummy directories, a pipe, and gssd holding it open like “hey, I’m alive and running.” Periodt. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
• rpc_queue_upcall(9)
• rpc_mkpipe_dentry(9)
• rpc_unlink(9)
• rpc_init_pipe_dir_head(9)
• rpc_init_pipe_dir_object(9)
• rpc_add_pipe_dir_object(9)
• rpc_remove_pipe_dir_object(9)
• rpc_find_or_alloc_pipe_dir_object(9)
• rpc_create_client_dir(9)
• rpc_remove_client_dir(9)

xoxo, this one’s sourced from ./net/sunrpc, dated October 2026, and the title is still rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(9) — bestie out 💖🎀