lookup_one_len(9)

lookup_one_len9

Filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component

Usage

struct dentry * lookup_one_len(const char * name, struct dentry * base, int len);

Arguments

name

pathname component to lookup

base

base directory to lookup from

len

maximum length len should be interpreted to

Overview

Note that this routine is purely a helper for filesystem usage and should not be called by generic code.

The caller must hold base->i_mutex.

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.