vfs_path_lookup(9)

vfs_path_lookup9

Lookup a file path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair

Usage

int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry * dentry, struct vfsmount * mnt, const char * name, unsigned int flags, struct path * path);

Arguments

dentry

pointer to dentry of the base directory

mnt

pointer to vfs mount of the base directory

name

pointer to file name

flags

lookup flags

path

pointer to struct path to fill

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.