d_alloc(9)

d_alloc9

Allocate a dcache entry

Usage

struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr * name);

Arguments

parent

parent of entry to allocate

name

qstr of the name

Overview

Allocates a dentry. It returns NULL if there is insufficient memory available. On a success the dentry is returned. The name passed in is copied and the copy passed in may be reused after this call.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.