.\" 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 "NTFS_PUT_INODE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME ntfs_put_inode \- handler for when the inode reference count is decremented .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void ntfs_put_inode (struct inode * \fIvi\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIvi\fB\fR vfs inode .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP The VFS calls \fBntfs_put_inode\fR every time the inode reference count (i_count) is about to be decremented (but before the decrement itself. .PP If the inode \fIvi\fR is a directory with two references, one of which is being dropped, we need to put the attribute inode for the directory index bitmap, if it is present, otherwise the directory inode would remain pinned for ever.