tomoyo_get_local_path(9)

🎀 tomoyo_get_local_path(9) 🎀

okay so this is the tomoyo_get_local_path(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is giving short-and-sweet kernel realness ✨ bestie, we are getting the path of a dentry.

✨ NAME ✨

tomoyo_get_local_path — Get the path of a dentry 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

char * tomoyo_get_local_path (struct dentry *dentry , char * const
       buffer , const int buflen );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dentry — pointer to "struct dentry" 🫶.
• buffer — pointer to the buffer to return value in 🎀.
• buflen — size of the buffer; the original literally says Sizeof buffer. 📏.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

On success, it returns the buffer — yay 💖. Otherwise, it returns an error code. The original puts it exactly like this: Returns the buffer on success, an error code otherwise. no cap.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/realpath.c is in the group chat, and the whole squad is:

• tomoyo_encode2(9)
• tomoyo_encode(9)
• tomoyo_get_absolute_path(9)
• tomoyo_get_dentry_path(9)
• tomoyo_realpath_from_path(9)
• tomoyo_realpath_nofollow(9)

xoxo, your local path bestie 💅 — source/version: ./security/tomoyo, date: October 2026, page: tomoyo_get_local_path(9) 🌈🫶