seq_buf_get_buf(9)

💅 seq_buf_get_buf(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so this whole page is about seq_buf_get_buf, which lives in the Kernel API Manual ✨ — and yes it's a function signature with <italic>9</italic> at the end, that's just how man pages flex. Anyway. It's giving "hand me a buffer so I can write literally whatever I want into it" energy, and honestly? Iconic.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

seq_buf_get_buf — get buffer to write arbitrary data to 🫶

Like, that's the whole vibe. You get a buffer. You write arbitrary data to it. No cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

size_t seq_buf_get_buf (struct seq_buf *s , char **bufp );

that's it, that's the whole thing. copy it exactly, don't be weird about the spacing 💀

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• s — the seq_buf handle. the main character of this story 👑
• bufp — the beginning of the buffer is stored here. that's where the pointer gets dropped off, like a little gift 🎁

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

it returns the number of bytes available in the buffer 🧚 — or zero if there's no space. and yes, zero means what you think it means: no room, no slay, nothing to write into 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./include/linux/seq_buf.h
• struct seq_buf(9)
• seq_buf_str(9)
• seq_buf_commit(9)
• seq_buf_pop(9)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

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and that's the page!! tiny, but it ate. 💅 this came out of ./include/linux and it's dated October 2026 — so like, mark your calendar bestie, or honestly don't, it's a man page footer and it's not that deep 🌈⭐