seq_path(9)

💅 seq_path — like, the seq_file glow-up for pathnames, bestie

okay so this is seq_path, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, obvi), and it's literally the seq_file interface whose whole personality is printing a pathname. she's a little function with big main character energy 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

seq_path — the seq_file interface to print a pathname. that's it, that's the vibe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int seq_path (struct seq_file *m , const struct path *path , const char *esc );

like, three args, one int coming back at you. no cap. ✨

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• m — the seq_file handle. your little output bestie, she holds the whole thing together 🫶
• path — the struct path to print. the actual path-ness you're serving 💅
• esc — set of characters to escape in the output. give her the escape list and she'll handle it, iykyk 🌈

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so the function returns the absolute path of 'path' — and that path is exactly what's represented by the dentry / mnt pair inside the path parameter 🧚

like, dentry + mnt = the path, and seq_path puts it out there for you. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🔥

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

kernel file ./fs/seq_file.c and literally the whole seq-iverse, because she runs with a crowd:

• seq_open(9)
• seq_read(9)
• seq_lseek(9)
• seq_release(9)
• seq_escape_mem(9)
• seq_mangle_path(9)
• seq_file_path(9)
• seq_put_decimal_ull_width(9)
• seq_put_hex_ll(9)
• seq_write(9)
• seq_pad(9)
• seq_hlist_start(9)
• seq_hlist_start_head(9)
• seq_hlist_next(9)
• seq_hlist_start_rcu(9)
• seq_hlist_start_head_rcu(9)
• seq_hlist_next_rcu(9)
• seq_hlist_start_percpu(9)
• seq_hlist_next_percpu(9)

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this one's from ./fs, dated October 2026, and she's page seq_path(9) — go off, kernel docs, you ate 💜⭐