ILOOKUP

Section: (9)
Updated: 07 August 2003
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NAME

ilookup - search for an inode in the inode cache  

SYNOPSIS

struct inode * ilookup (struct super_block * sb, unsigned long ino);  

ARGUMENTS

sb
super block of file system to search
ino
inode number to search for
 

DESCRIPTION

ilookup uses ifind_fast to search for the inode ino in the inode cache. This is for file systems where the inode number is sufficient for unique identification of an inode.

If the inode is in the cache, the inode is returned with an incremented reference count.

Otherwise NULL is returned.  

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This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.0.


 

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