tomoyo_path_mkdir(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 tomoyo_path_mkdir — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is a section 9 kernel API page, the kind of thing you read when you're already deep in kernel land. stay with me though, it's short and honestly kind of iconic 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_path_mkdir — the target for security_path_mkdir(). that's the whole vibe, she's a hook and she knows it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tomoyo_path_mkdir (const struct path *parent , struct dentry *dentry
, umode_t mode );

literally the whole signature, no cap 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • parent — a pointer to "struct path". yes the quotes are part of the original, don't come for me 🙈
  • dentry — a pointer to "struct dentry". iconic struct, no notes ⭐
  • mode — the DAC permission mode. the permissions, the vibes, the whole mood 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does she do? she returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise. that's it. that's the whole description. short king energy fr fr 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file lives at ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c and it's giving main character energy, so here's the full friend group, all thirty of them, not one skipped bestie 💜

go read them. all of them. i'll wait 🍓

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this cutie comes to you from ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and she answers to the name tomoyo_path_mkdir(9) — periodt 🧚‍♀️💖

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