tomoyo_poll_control(9)

hey bestie 💖 you're looking at tomoyo_poll_control(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? It's a tiny little icon. Let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_poll_control — the poll() situation for the /sys/kernel/security/tomoyo/ interface. that's the whole vibe ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

__poll_t tomoyo_poll_control (struct file *file , poll_table *wait );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — pointer to struct file. the main character of this parameter list 💅
• wait — pointer to poll_table. maybe NULL, no stress 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the read 👑 when it's ready to read/write, it returns EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM | EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM. otherwise? you get EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM. that's literally the whole plot, and it ate 😌

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/common.c — the whole friend group lives there, so go say hi to:

• tomoyo_addprintf(9), tomoyo_flush(9), tomoyo_set_string(9), tomoyo_io_printf(9), tomoyo_set_space(9), tomoyo_set_lf(9), tomoyo_set_slash(9)
• tomoyo_init_policy_namespace(9), tomoyo_print_namespace(9), tomoyo_print_name_union(9), tomoyo_print_name_union_quoted(9), tomoyo_print_number_union_nospace(9), tomoyo_print_number_union(9)
• tomoyo_assign_profile(9), tomoyo_profile(9), tomoyo_find_yesno(9), tomoyo_set_uint(9), tomoyo_set_mode(9), tomoyo_write_profile(9)
• tomoyo_print_config(9), tomoyo_read_profile(9), tomoyo_same_manager(9), tomoyo_update_manager_entry(9), tomoyo_write_manager(9), tomoyo_read_manager(9), tomoyo_manager(9)
• tomoyo_select_domain(9), tomoyo_same_task_acl(9), tomoyo_write_task(9), tomoyo_delete_domain(9), tomoyo_write_domain2(9), tomoyo_write_domain(9)
• tomoyo_print_condition(9), tomoyo_set_group(9), tomoyo_print_entry(9), tomoyo_read_domain2(9), tomoyo_read_domain(9), tomoyo_write_pid(9)
• tomoyo_read_pid(9), tomoyo_write_exception(9), tomoyo_read_group(9), tomoyo_read_policy(9), tomoyo_read_exception(9), tomoyo_truncate(9)
• tomoyo_numscan(9), tomoyo_patternize_path(9), tomoyo_add_entry(9), tomoyo_supervisor(9), tomoyo_find_domain_by_qid(9), tomoyo_poll_query(9)
• tomoyo_read_query(9), tomoyo_write_answer(9), tomoyo_read_version(9), tomoyo_update_stat(9), tomoyo_read_stat(9), tomoyo_write_stat(9)
• tomoyo_open_control(9), tomoyo_set_namespace_cursor(9), tomoyo_has_more_namespace(9), tomoyo_read_control(9), tomoyo_parse_policy(9), tomoyo_write_control(9)
• tomoyo_close_control(9), tomoyo_check_profile(9), tomoyo_load_builtin_policy(9)

and that's the vibe check bestie 🫶 source/version: ./security/tomoyo · date: October 2026 · page: tomoyo_poll_control(9). periodt 💅✨