convert_to_nt_pathname(9)

💖 convert_to_nt_pathname(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes we're reading kernel docs together, that's just the vibe today 🎀 this one lives in the ksmbd corner of the kernel and it's genuinely so useful, i promise.

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✨ NAME ✨

convert_to_nt_pathname — the girlies that extract and return a windows path string, where the share directory prefix has been taken off the file path 🦋

like, the share prefix? gone. removed. not invited. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

char * convert_to_nt_pathname (struct ksmbd_share_config *share , const
struct path *path );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• share — a ksmbd_share_config pointer, so it's the share config we're working with 🫶
• path — the path to report, bestie, that's the one 📍

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

it gives you back a windows path string… or an error 😭 that's the whole deal. windows path string on the good timeline, error when the universe says no.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/misc.c match_pattern(9) — go read it, fr fr
• ksmbd_extract_sharename(9) — the sibling, the costar, the main character adjacent one 🌈

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ngl this page is short but it ate — no cap, every detail is here, nothing skipped 💀✨

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from ./fs/smb/server, dated October 2026, and it's genuinely iconic of the Kernel API Manual to give us a one-screen banger like this 💜🦋 periodt 🫶