textsearch_find(9)

✨ textsearch_find(9) ✨

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual bestie, and this page is textsearch_find(9) — yes it's a whole manual page just for one function, and honestly? iconic of it. it's giving "tiny function, big main character energy" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

textsearch_find — start searching for a pattern 🔍

like, literally the beginning of the hunt. the vibe check before the actual find.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

unsigned int textsearch_find (struct ts_config *conf , struct ts_state
*state );

that's the whole signature, no cap. she takes two pointers and hands you back an unsigned int 🫶

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• conf — the search configuration 🧚 like, all the settings telling the search how to behave
• state — the search state 💫 the lil tracker that remembers where you're at

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the tea ☕: this function returns the position of first occurrence of the pattern, or UINT_MAX if no match was found.

that's it. that's the whole deal. either you get a position, or you get UINT_MAX and you're like 😭 no match bestie. literally the entire plot.

🌈 remember: UINT_MAX is the "nope, nothing, absolutely zero matches" answer — don't go treating it like a real position, ok? 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, fr fr, they're all lowkey connected 🔗

• Kernel file ./include/linux/textsearch.h — the header where it all lives ✨
• struct ts_state(9)
• struct ts_ops(9)
• struct ts_config(9)
• textsearch_next(9)
• textsearch_get_pattern(9)
• textsearch_get_pattern_len(9)

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and that's the page!! 🦋 huge shoutout to ./include/linux for being the source, to October 2026 for the date, and to textsearch_find(9) itself for showing up and doing the absolute most with the absolute least 💜 mwah, slay, periodt 🎀