CLEAR_NLINK

Section: The Linux VFS (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

clear_nlink - directly zero an inode's link count  

SYNOPSIS

void clear_nlink(struct inode * inode);
 

ARGUMENTS

inode

inode
 

DESCRIPTION

This is a low-level filesystem helper to replace any direct filesystem manipulation of i_nlink. See drop_nlink for why we care about i_nlink hitting zero.  

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