tomoyo_socket_connect(9)

💖 tomoyo_socket_connect(9) 💖

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes we're in kernel land today, get comfy 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

tomoyo_socket_connect — the little guy that does the permission check for connect() 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int tomoyo_socket_connect (struct socket *sock , struct sockaddr *addr ,
       int addr_len );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sock — a pointer to struct socket. literally just a socket pointer, that's the whole vibe 🧚
• addr — a pointer to struct sockaddr. the address in question, no cap ⭐
• addr_len — the size of addr. iykyk, it's the length 🌸

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the tea: it returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise 😭 that's it. that's the whole description. short and iconic, honestly 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c 💜 plus the whole tomoyo friend group — collect them all like stickers 🎀

• tomoyo_domain(9)
• tomoyo_cred_prepare(9)
• tomoyo_bprm_committed_creds(9)
• tomoyo_bprm_creds_for_exec(9)
• tomoyo_bprm_check_security(9)
• tomoyo_inode_getattr(9)
• tomoyo_path_truncate(9)
• tomoyo_file_truncate(9)
• tomoyo_path_unlink(9)
• tomoyo_path_mkdir(9)
• tomoyo_path_rmdir(9)
• tomoyo_path_symlink(9)
• tomoyo_path_mknod(9)
• tomoyo_path_link(9)
• tomoyo_path_rename(9)
• tomoyo_file_fcntl(9)
• tomoyo_file_open(9)
• tomoyo_file_ioctl(9)
• tomoyo_path_chmod(9)
• tomoyo_path_chown(9)
• tomoyo_path_chroot(9)
• tomoyo_sb_mount(9)
• tomoyo_sb_umount(9)
• tomoyo_sb_pivotroot(9)
• tomoyo_socket_listen(9)
• tomoyo_socket_bind(9)
• tomoyo_socket_sendmsg(9)
• tomoyo_task_alloc(9)
• tomoyo_task_free(9)
• tomoyo_init(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, hope you ate 💅✨ the source lives over in ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and this was tomoyo_socket_connect(9) — mwah, see you in the next manpage 🫶💖