tomoyo_read(9)

okay bestie, welcome to tomoyo_read(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes, that’s the manual name, and we’re doing the read() corner of the /sys/kernel/security/tomoyo/ interface 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

tomoyo_read — literally the read() for the /sys/kernel/security/tomoyo/ interface. No cap, that’s the whole name vibe 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ssize_t tomoyo_read (struct file *file , char __user *buf , size_t count , loff_t *ppos );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — pointer to struct file. That’s it, bestie 🎀
• buf — pointer to buffer 🌸
• count — size of buf, periodt ✨
• ppos — unused. literally just vibing there 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

On success it returns the bytes read — slay ✅. Otherwise it returns a negative value, and that’s the tea ☕.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/securityfs_if.c
• tomoyo_check_task_acl(9)
• tomoyo_write_self(9)
• tomoyo_read_self(9)
• tomoyo_open(9)
• tomoyo_release(9)
• tomoyo_poll(9)
• tomoyo_write(9)
• tomoyo_create_entry(9)
• tomoyo_interface_init(9)

cute little sign-off: source/version vibes are ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and the page is tomoyo_read(9) — mwah 💋🎀