tomoyo_task_alloc(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ tomoyo_task_alloc(9) ✨

okay so real quick — this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is tomoyo_task_alloc. it's a tiny little function bestie, like genuinely tiny, but she's doing her job and we respect her for it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_task_alloc — the target for security_task_alloc() 🎯

like, when the kernel's security hook situation calls for a security_task_alloc() target, this is the girl they call. periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int tomoyo_task_alloc (struct task_struct *task , u64 clone_flags );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. two args, one int coming back at you ✨

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • task — a pointer to "struct task_struct". yes, the quotes are part of the original, we don't make the rules, we just pass the struct 🫶
  • clone_flags — the clone flags. that's literally it, she's not complicated, ngl 🌈

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Returns 0.

no cap. that's the whole description. she said "i have one job and i ate" and the job is returning zero. iconic behaviour honestly 😭👑

ngl this is the shortest description i've ever read and i'm obsessed — zero drama, zero caveats, just a clean little 0 handed back to you like a strawberry 🍓

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

first up, the kernel file herself: ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c — go say hi, she's where the actual implementation lives 📁💜

and then the whole friend group, in the exact order the page gives them (yes i'm listing every single one, i would never do my besties dirty like that):

thirty of them fr fr. that's a whole group chat and every single one of them has a manpage. iykyk 💀✨

and that's the page!! short, sweet, returns zero, references her entire extended family 🎀

sign-off era: this one lives out of ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and it's a page from the Kernel API Manual. mwah, go read tomoyo_task_free(9) next, she's the sequel 💖🌸🦋
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