tomoyo_del_number_group(9)
π tomoyo_del_number_group(9) π
okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual β section 9, the deep magic part. today's main character is tomoyo_del_number_group, and yes she's from the TOMOYO crew, and yes she's iconic in her own quiet little way π
β¨ NAME β¨
tomoyo_del_number_group β deletes the members inside "struct tomoyo_number_group", no cap π«Ά
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
void tomoyo_del_number_group (struct list_head *element );
that's it. that's the whole vibe. void in, void out β she takes, she doesn't give back ππ
π¦ ARGUMENTS π¦
elementβ a pointer to"struct list_head". like, literally just a pointer to alist_head, bestie. she's gonna do her thing with it, just hand it over π
β DESCRIPTION β
so what does she actually do? Returns nothing. periodt. that's the whole description in the original and honestly? we're respecting it π
like, she's a void function whose entire documented life purpose is "returns nothing" β and honestly that's main character energy if I've ever seen it. she showed up, she did her thing, she returned nothing, she left β¨
π SEE ALSO π
okay so this is the part where I list literally every single one of her friends, and I mean every one, because the manpage said so and we do not skip the boring parts in this house π
kernel file ./security/tomoyo/gc.c, plus:
tomoyo_memory_free(9)tomoyo_struct_used_by_io_buffer(9)tomoyo_name_used_by_io_buffer(9)tomoyo_del_transition_control(9)tomoyo_del_aggregator(9)tomoyo_del_manager(9)tomoyo_del_acl(9)tomoyo_del_domain(9)tomoyo_del_condition(9)tomoyo_del_name(9)tomoyo_del_path_group(9)tomoyo_del_group(9)tomoyo_del_address_group(9)tomoyo_try_to_gc(9)tomoyo_collect_member(9)tomoyo_collect_acl(9)tomoyo_collect_entry(9)tomoyo_gc_thread(9)tomoyo_notify_gc(9)
like, that's a whole friend group and they're all in ./security/tomoyo being gc icons together, iykyk ππ₯
fr fr though β if you're reading this, you're probably up to your eyeballs in TOMOYO garbage collection code, and honestly? respect. this stuff is lowkey a lot π§
that's the whole page babes π written from the ./security/tomoyo directory, dated October 2026, and yeah β she's a section 9 girlie through and through. go free some memory, slay, and remember: returns nothing is still a valid personality ππ
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixpkgs unstable: linux-manual 7.3.1
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms