.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "CLEAR_INODE" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME clear_inode \- clear an inode .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void clear_inode (struct inode * \fIinode\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIinode\fB\fR inode to clear .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This is called by the filesystem to tell us that the inode is no longer useful. We just terminate it with extreme prejudice.