tomoyo_load_policy(9)

💅 tomoyo_load_policy(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the tomoyo_load_policy(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, that manual name is doing main character energy up top so you don't miss it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_load_policy — run the external policy loader to load policy, no cap 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void tomoyo_load_policy (const char *filename );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• filename — the program that's about to start 👀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: this function checks whether filename is /sbin/init, and if it is, it invokes /sbin/tomoyo-init and waits for the termination of /sbin/tomoyo-init — like, fully waits — and then it continues invocation of /sbin/init. periodt 💅

and /sbin/tomoyo-init reads policy files in the /etc/tomoyo/ directory and writes to the /sys/kernel/security/tomoyo/ interfaces. that's the whole pipeline, bestie 🧚

Returns nothing. literally nothing, like not even a little return value 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/load_policy.c
• tomoyo_loader_setup(9)
• tomoyo_policy_loader_exists(9)
• tomoyo_trigger_setup(9)

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mwah 💋 — this cutie came from ./security/tomoyo, stamped October 2026, and the page itself is tomoyo_load_policy(9) 🎀