.\" 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 "D_INSTANTIATE_UNIQUE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME d_instantiate_unique \- instantiate a non-aliased dentry .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp struct dentry * d_instantiate_unique (struct dentry * \fIentry\fB, struct inode * \fIinode\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIentry\fB\fR dentry to instantiate .TP \fB\fIinode\fB\fR inode to attach to this dentry .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Fill in inode information in the entry. On success, it returns NULL. If an unhashed alias of ``entry'' already exists, then we return the aliased dentry instead. .PP Note that in order to avoid conflicts with \fBrename\fR etc, the caller had better be holding the parent directory semaphore.