tomoyo_make_byte(9)

🌸 tomoyo_make_byte(9) 🌸

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's about one tiny little helper that turns three octal characters into a byte. yes, that's it. she's small, she's focused, she's lowkey iconic for it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

tomoyo_make_byte — bestie, this literally makes a byte value out of three octal characters 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u8 tomoyo_make_byte (const u8 c1 , const u8 c2 , const u8 c3 );

like, you hand her three const u8 characters and she gives you back a u8. no cap. 🦋

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• c1 — the first character 💖
• c2 — the second character ⭐
• c3 — the third character 🌸

three little characters walk into a function, iykyk 🙈

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Returns byte value. that's the whole plot. she said "I return a byte value" and honestly? main character energy 👑 no extra lore, no side quests, just a byte coming back to you.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay so this function runs with a whole friend group, and the manpage says the kernel file is ./security/tomoyo/util.c — here's everyone in the group chat 🫶:

• tomoyo_convert_time(9)
• tomoyo_permstr(9)
• tomoyo_read_token(9)
• tomoyo_get_domainname(9)
• tomoyo_parse_ulong(9)
• tomoyo_print_ulong(9)
• tomoyo_parse_name_union(9)
• tomoyo_parse_number_union(9)
• tomoyo_byte_range(9)
• tomoyo_alphabet_char(9)
• tomoyo_valid(9)
• tomoyo_invalid(9)
• tomoyo_str_starts(9)
• tomoyo_normalize_line(9)
• tomoyo_correct_word2(9)
• tomoyo_correct_word(9)
• tomoyo_correct_path2(9)
• tomoyo_correct_path(9)
• tomoyo_correct_domain(9)
• tomoyo_domain_def(9)
• tomoyo_find_domain(9)
• tomoyo_const_part_length(9)
• tomoyo_fill_path_info(9)
• tomoyo_file_matches_pattern2(9)
• tomoyo_file_matches_pattern(9)
• tomoyo_path_matches_pattern2(9)
• tomoyo_path_matches_pattern(9)
• tomoyo_get_exe(9)
• tomoyo_get_mode(9)
• tomoyo_init_request_info(9)
• tomoyo_domain_quota_is_ok(9)

like, that's the whole squad, and every single one of them is invited 🧚

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bestie this is the end of the page, so here's the sign-off fr fr: it's from ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and it's the tomoyo_make_byte(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. that's the vibe check, we passed it, periodt 💀💜