rxrpc_kernel_check_life(9)

💖 rxrpc_kernel_check_life(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for rxrpc_kernel_check_life — the little function whose whole thing is: Check to see whether a call is still alive. iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool rxrpc_kernel_check_life (const struct socket *sock , const struct
       rxrpc_call *call );

yeah that's the signature, no cap. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sock — the socket the call is on. like, which socket bestie 💅
• call — the call to check. the actual call we're checking on 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This lets a kernel service find out whether a call is still alive — meaning: has it completed successfully, and has all received data been consumed? that's the whole vibe check. it's giving “is this call still ongoing or is it done?” 💀

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

It returns true if the call is still ongoing, and false if it has completed. periodt. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
• rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(9)
• rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(9)
• rxrpc_kernel_put_peer(9)
• rxrpc_kernel_begin_call(9)
• rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call(9)
• rxrpc_kernel_put_call(9)
• rxrpc_kernel_set_notifications(9)

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and that's the page, bestie! source/version: ./net/rxrpc; date: October 2026. mwah 💋🎀