STRUCT ENTRY_HEADER(9)

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🌸 struct entry_header(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, where we're gonna talk about struct entry_header β€” it's literally the header for each entry in cmddb, and yes it's as iconic as it sounds πŸ’…


✨ NAME ✨

struct entry_header β€” the header for each entry in cmddb, no cap 🫢


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

like, here's the whole vibe of the struct, verbatim, don't touch a single character:

struct entry_header {
    u8 id[8];
    __le32 priority[NUM_PRIORITY];
    __le32 addr;
    __le16 len;
    __le16 offset;
 };

look at her. she's beautiful. she's little. she's a struct πŸ˜­πŸ’–


πŸ‘‘ MEMBERS πŸ‘‘

okay so every field is a main character in her own right, let's go through the whole friend group:

  • id β€” the resource's identifier πŸ†” like, who is she? this tells you.
  • priority β€” unused πŸ’€ fr fr, nobody's using her right now, she's just kinda here for the vibes. don't come for me, that's literally what the manual says.
  • addr β€” the address of the resource πŸ“ the actual location, the where, the spot.
  • len β€” length of the data πŸ“ how much data we're dealing with.
  • offset β€” offset from :data_offset, start of the data 🎯 like, where the data actually kicks off.
ngl the : in :data_offset is literally how it's written in the original, so I'm keeping it exactly. not my typo, bestie, I would never πŸ™ˆ

πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

go read these next, they're all in the same friend group and they all ate:


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