smb2_read_pipe(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 smb2_read_pipe(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about one (1) little handler function. tiny page, big job. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

smb2_read_pipe — the handler for smb2 read from IPC pipe. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it handles reads coming off an IPC pipe in smb2-land ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int smb2_read_pipe (struct ksmbd_work *work );

like, one argument, returns an int, no cap 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • work — a struct ksmbd_work *, aka the smb work that's holding the read IPC pipe command buffer. it's literally carrying the command buffer for you, be nice to it 🥺

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success 🎉
  • otherwise, an error 😭 (that's the whole deal — success or error, no in-between)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

so there's a whole friend group here, and honestly they're all iconic. the kernel file is ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c, and these are the besties it hangs out with:

like, sixty whole functions. the whole group chat showed up 😭💀 no cap, that's a lot of reading material.

and that's the page!! 🧚💖

shoutout to the source <pink>./fs/smb/server</pink>, dated <purple>October 2026</purple>, and the page itself is <hotpink>smb2_read_pipe(9)</hotpink> — periodt, slay, go read the other sixty pages now 💅🦋

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