.TH "lease_get_mtime" 9 "lease_get_mtime" "25 May 1998" "Kernel Hacker's Manual" LINUX .SH NAME lease_get_mtime \- .SH SYNOPSIS .B "time_t" lease_get_mtime .BI "(struct inode *" inode ");" .SH ARGUMENTS .IP "inode" 12 the inode .SH "DESCRIPTION" This is to force NFS clients to flush their caches for files with exclusive leases. The justification is that if someone has an exclusive lease, then they could be modifiying it.