xdr_reset_scratch_buffer(9)

🎀 xdr_reset_scratch_buffer — a Kernel API Manual moment, bestie 🎀

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this page is short but honestly? iconic. it's giving "one job, does it well" energy. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

xdr_reset_scratch_buffer — clear the scratch buffer info 🧹✨

like, it resets. the scratch buffer. the information about it. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void xdr_reset_scratch_buffer (struct xdr_stream *xdr );

that's it. that's the whole thing. returns nothing (void), takes one pointer, and honestly it ate. 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• xdr — a pointer to a struct xdr_stream 🫶 just hand over your lil stream struct and let it do its thing.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so lowkey the description here is literally just... go look at xdr_set_scratch_buffer. that's the whole vibe. 😭 the manpage is not gonna elaborate, bestie, it's pointing you at the sibling function and trusting you to handle it. main character delegation energy fr fr. 💀

no extra lore here — the original genuinely just says "See xdr_set_scratch_buffer." so that's what we're saying too. 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie there is a LOT here. the whole xdr extended family showed up to the group chat. 👑

first up, the actual file this all lives in:

Kernel file ./include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h 📁

and now the whole squad, in order:

• xdr_set_scratch_buffer(9)
• xdr_set_scratch_folio(9)
• xdr_commit_encode(9)
• xdr_stream_remaining(9)
• xdr_align_size(9)
• xdr_pad_size(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_item_present(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_item_absent(9)
• xdr_encode_bool(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_bool(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_u32(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_be32(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_u64(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_opaque_inline(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_opaque_fixed(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_opaque(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_uint32_array(9)
• xdr_item_is_absent(9)
• xdr_item_is_present(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_bool(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_u32(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_be32(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_u64(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_opaque_fixed(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_opaque_inline(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_uint32_array(9)

like literally all of them. encode girlies, decode girlies, size girlies, presence-check girlies — everyone's invited 🫶✨

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and that's the page, babes 💖 this one came from ./include/linux/sunrpc, dated October 2026, and it's xdr_reset_scratch_buffer(9) forever and always. slay, stay hydrated, and may your scratch buffers always be clear 🍓🧚‍♀️💅