smack_socket_bind(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 smack_socket_bind(9) — the Kernel API Manual, but make it cute 🎀

okay so this is smack_socket_bind(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally here to record port binding info. bestie, it's giving very specific little kernel task energy and honestly? obsessed. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

smack_socket_bind — record port binding information.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

the whole signature vibe is exactly this, no edits:

int smack_socket_bind (struct socket *sock , struct sockaddr *address ,
       int addrlen );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • sock — the socket.
  • address — the port address.
  • addrlen — size of the address.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the actual tea: this records the label bound to a port. that's the whole assignment. 💅

It returns 0 on success, and an error code otherwise. no cap, that's the deal. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file reference is ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c, and the whole squad is here — every single one, periodt:

and that's the page, bestie 💖 this cutie's source/version is ./security/smack, dated October 2026, and it is absolutely smack_socket_bind(9) — periodt. 🎀✨

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