smack_syslog(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 smack_syslog — Smack approval on syslog 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to smack_syslog(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes we're reading kernel API manuals together, this is our friendship now 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int smack_syslog (int typefrom_file );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • typefrom_file — unused. that's it. that's the whole argument. it's giving decorative. it's giving invited to the party but not doing anything 💀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Returns 0 on success, error code otherwise.

and that's the entire description, no cap. short king energy 👑✨ literally two clauses and a dream.

lowkey obsessed with how this function has an argument it just... doesn't use 🙂 but that's what the manual says, so that's what I'm telling you. iykyk.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so this section is huge, like the whole Smack LSM showed up to the group chat at once 😭 live in the kernel file ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c — every one of these is getting its flowers, no skips, no cap, all of them:

the task girlies really said "we all get a mention" 💅

the IPC section of the list ate and left no crumbs 🔥

and that's the whole squad, all 9, all accounted for, nobody left on read 💜

ngl, the only hard rule here: this page tells you the function returns 0 on success and an error code otherwise, and typefrom_file is unused. that's the whole tea. don't go inventing behaviour, bestie 🙈

✿ sign-off ✿

this masterpiece lives under ./security/smack and it's dated October 2026 — future-dated icon behaviour honestly, we stan a forward-thinking manpage 🧚‍♀️🎀 bye bestie, go read smack_lsm.c 💖

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