uf_find(9)

✨ uf_find(9) — like, the union-find girlies' very own manual page ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for uf_find 🫶 this is the one that goes "who's your leader, bestie?" and then shortcuts the whole friend group tree so future lookups are fast. iconic behaviour, honestly.

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💖 NAME 💖

uf_find — find the root of a node and perform path compression

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct uf_node * uf_find (struct uf_node *node );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• node — the node you want to find the root of. that's it. that's the whole arg 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this function returns the root of node by following the parent pointers — just vibe-checking up the chain until it hits the top, no cap.

it also performs path compression, which makes the tree shallower. yes bestie, it's giving glow-up for the data structure — flatter tree, faster future finds, everyone wins ✨

returns the root node of the set containing node. periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./lib/union_find.c
• uf_union(9)

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and that's the whole page, diva 💜 this little gem lives in ./lib, dated October 2026 — go forth and compress those paths 🧚‍♀️⭐