tomoyo_path_number_perm(9)

🎀 tomoyo_path_number_perm(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the permission-checking page. it’s giving kernel security but make it cute 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

tomoyo_path_number_perm — checks permission for "create", "mkdir", "mkfifo", "mksock", "ioctl", "chmod", "chown", and "chgrp". periodt 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

       int tomoyo_path_number_perm (const u8 type , const struct path *path ,
       unsigned long number );

that’s the signature, no remix, no edits 💖

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• type — the type of operation. yep, that’s the vibe 🎀
• path — a pointer to struct path. literally what it says 💫
• number — the number. that’s it, that’s the whole thing 🔢

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise. that’s the whole plot twist, bestie 😭✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/file.c is home base, and the linked-up crew is:

• tomoyo_put_name_union(9), tomoyo_compare_name_union(9), tomoyo_put_number_union(9), tomoyo_compare_number_union(9), tomoyo_add_slash(9), tomoyo_get_realpath(9), tomoyo_audit_path_log(9), tomoyo_audit_path2_log(9), tomoyo_audit_mkdev_log(9), tomoyo_audit_path_number_log(9)
• tomoyo_check_path_acl(9), tomoyo_check_path_number_acl(9), tomoyo_check_path2_acl(9), tomoyo_check_mkdev_acl(9), tomoyo_same_path_acl(9), tomoyo_merge_path_acl(9), tomoyo_update_path_acl(9), tomoyo_same_mkdev_acl(9), tomoyo_merge_mkdev_acl(9), tomoyo_update_mkdev_acl(9)
• tomoyo_same_path2_acl(9), tomoyo_merge_path2_acl(9), tomoyo_update_path2_acl(9), tomoyo_path_permission(9), tomoyo_execute_permission(9), tomoyo_same_path_number_acl(9), tomoyo_merge_path_number_acl(9), tomoyo_update_path_number_acl(9), tomoyo_check_open_permission(9)
• tomoyo_path_perm(9), tomoyo_mkdev_perm(9), tomoyo_path2_perm(9), tomoyo_same_mount_acl(9), tomoyo_update_mount_acl(9), tomoyo_write_file(9)

okay bye bestie 💖 this page is sourced from ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and it’s the tomoyo_path_number_perm(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. slay and stay safe 🫶✨