sock_create(9)

✨ sock_create(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for sock_create — this is the sock_create(9) page and it's literally the moment where your kernel goes "imma make a socket rn" 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

sock_create — creates a socket

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int sock_create (int family , int type , int protocol , struct socket
**res );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• family — the protocol family (AF_INET, ...) 🧚
• type — the communication type (SOCK_STREAM, ...) 🦋
• protocol — the protocol (0, ...) 🍓
• res — the new socket 👑

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So what is this icon actually doing? It's a wrapper around __sock_create. Returns 0 or an error. And the fun lil detail: this function internally uses GFP_KERNEL. no cap 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long but we're not skipping a single one, periodt:

• Kernel file ./net/socket.c
• move_addr_to_kernel(9)
• move_addr_to_user(9)
• sock_read_xattr(9)
• sock_alloc_file(9)
• sock_from_file(9)
• sockfd_lookup(9)
• sock_alloc(9)
• sock_release(9)
• sock_sendmsg(9)
• kernel_sendmsg(9)
• sock_recvmsg(9)
• kernel_recvmsg(9)
• sock_create_lite(9)
• __sock_create(9)
• sock_create_kern(9)
• sock_register(9)
• sock_unregister(9)
• kernel_bind(9)
• kernel_listen(9)
• kernel_accept(9)
• kernel_connect(9)
• kernel_getsockname(9)
• kernel_getpeername(9)
• kernel_sock_shutdown(9)
• kernel_sock_ip_overhead(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, slay 💅

this lil masterpiece is chillin' in ./net, dated October 2026 — sock_create(9) out, mwah 🫶💖