tipc_recvstream(9)

💅 tipc_recvstream(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense 🎀

okay so bestie, this is tipc_recvstream from the kernel API manual, and it's literally the one that pulls actual stream data out. no cap. let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tipc_recvstream — receive stream-oriented data 💖 (yes that's the whole name, she's straightforward and we respect it)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int tipc_recvstream (struct socket *sock , struct msghdr *m , size_t
buflen , int flags );

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• sock — the network socket, aka the whole vibe connection itself 🫶
• m — descriptor for message info, the little info card about the message
• buflen — total size of user buffer area, like how much room you've cleared in your bag 👜
• flags — receive flags, the options-y bits

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this one is used for SOCK_STREAM messages only — that's the whole assignment, she does not moonlight. no cap. 🌈

if there isn't enough data available, she will optionally wait for more — patient queen energy 👑 — and she never truncates data. nope. not ever. she would never do that to you. 💅

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

size of returned message data, or errno otherwise 😭 (if it goes sideways you get an errno, that's the deal)

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

this is the friend group. the whole squad. literally all of them ⭐

Kernel file ./net/tipc/socket.c and:

• struct tipc_sock(9)
• tsk_advance_rx_queue(9)
• tsk_rej_rx_queue(9)
• tipc_sk_create(9)
• tipc_release(9)
• __tipc_bind(9)
• tipc_getname(9)
• tipc_poll(9)
• tipc_sendmcast(9)
• tipc_send_group_msg(9)
• tipc_send_group_unicast(9)
• tipc_send_group_anycast(9)
• tipc_send_group_bcast(9)
• tipc_send_group_mcast(9)
• tipc_sk_mcast_rcv(9)
• tipc_sk_conn_proto_rcv(9)
• tipc_sendmsg(9)
• tipc_sendstream(9)
• tipc_send_packet(9)
• tipc_sk_set_orig_addr(9)
• tipc_sk_anc_data_recv(9)
• tipc_recvmsg(9)
• tipc_write_space(9)
• tipc_data_ready(9)
• tipc_sk_filter_connect(9)
• rcvbuf_limit(9)
• tipc_sk_filter_rcv(9)
• tipc_sk_backlog_rcv(9)
• tipc_sk_enqueue(9)
• tipc_sk_rcv(9)
• tipc_connect(9)
• tipc_listen(9)
• tipc_accept(9)
• tipc_shutdown(9)
• tipc_setsockopt(9)
• tipc_getsockopt(9)
• tipc_socket_init(9)
• tipc_socket_stop(9)
• tipc_sk_filtering(9)
• tipc_sk_overlimit1(9)
• tipc_sk_overlimit2(9)
• tipc_sk_dump(9)

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ngl that's a big squad but every single one of them is in the group chat, iykyk 🧚

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this came out of ./net/tipc, dated October 2026, and it's your girl tipc_recvstream(9) signing off. slay, stay safe in the receive path, and don't truncate anything on your way out 💖✨🍓