tipc_release(9)

okay bestie, welcome to tipc_release(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ — she's the routine that destroys a TIPC socket, and she is literally giving cleanup main character energy 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

tipc_release — destroy a TIPC socket

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tipc_release (struct socket *sock );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• sock — the socket to destroy. yep, that's the one we're cleaning up, bestie.

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so this routine cleans up any messages that are still queued on the socket. no cap, it's giving tiny janitor with a clipboard 🧹✨

• For DGRAM and RDM socket types, all queued messages are rejected.
• For SEQPACKET and STREAM socket types, the first message is rejected and any others are discarded.
• If the first message on a STREAM socket is partially-read, it is discarded and the next one is rejected instead.

😭 NOTE 😭

Rejected messages are not necessarily returned to the sender! They are returned or discarded according to the "destination droppable" setting specified for the message by the sender. iykyk 💀

🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success, errno otherwise. slay.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go say hi to the whole TIPC friend group, bestie 🫶:

• Kernel file ./net/tipc/socket.c struct tipc_sock(9)
• tsk_advance_rx_queue(9)
• tsk_rej_rx_queue(9)
• tipc_sk_create(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_recvstream(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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byeee 💖 this page's source/version is ./net/tipc, dated October 2026, and it's the tipc_release(9) era forever. periodt. 🦋