smack_task_getpgid(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 smack_task_getpgid(9) — your girl's guide 💅

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's called smack_task_getpgid(9). Yes the name is a mouthful, no we're not renaming her, she's iconic and she knows it. Let's get into it bestie 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

smack_task_getpgid — the Smack access check for getpgid. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int smack_task_getpgid (struct task_struct *p );

like, literally that's the whole signature. one task, one check, one int coming back at you ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • p — the object task 🫶 yes "object task" is the actual term, she's the thing being looked at in this whole situation. main character of the access check, but make it object.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the whole entire job of this function is:

  • returns 0 if current can read the object task 👑
  • returns an error code otherwise 💀

that's it. that's the function. no cap. she shows up, she checks if current is allowed to read p, and she reports back with either the good 0 or a whole error code. queen behaviour, honestly. the way that's literally all she does and she still got her own manpage 😭 obsessed.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie. brace yourself. this list is long and I'm not skipping a single one of them, because every single one of these is part of the family. the kernel file in question is ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c — go say hi to her, she's holding the whole clique 💖

see? told you. the whole squad, not one name dropped. ate and left absolutely no crumbs 🍓✨

ngl bestie, that's genuinely the entire page. two sentences of description and the world's longest group chat. iykyk 💀🫶

and that's a wrap, babe 💖 this little beauty came to you from ./security/smack, dated October 2026, and she's serving smack_task_getpgid(9) realness from the Kernel API Manual until the end of time. go forth and read your tasks 👑🌸

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