D_INVALIDATE

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

d_invalidate - invalidate a dentry  

SYNOPSIS

int d_invalidate(struct dentry * dentry);
 

ARGUMENTS

dentry

dentry to invalidate
 

DESCRIPTION

Try to invalidate the dentry if it turns out to be possible. If there are other dentries that can be reached through this one we can't delete it and we return -EBUSY. On success we return 0.

no dcache lock.  

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