.\" 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 "VXFS_LOOKUP" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME vxfs_lookup \- lookup pathname component .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp struct dentry * vxfs_lookup (struct inode * \fIdip\fB, struct dentry * \fIdp\fB, struct nameidata * \fInd\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIdip\fB\fR dir in which we lookup .TP \fB\fIdp\fB\fR dentry we lookup .TP \fB\fInd\fB\fR lookup nameidata .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP vxfs_lookup tries to lookup the pathname component described by \fIdp\fR in \fIdip\fR\&. .SH "RETURNS" .PP A NULL-pointer on success, else an negative error code encoded in the return pointer.