d_delete_notify(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to d_delete_notify(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and this page is literally about one tiny helper with big “don’t lose track of the unlinked inode” energy ✨

d_delete_notify — delete a dentry and call fsnotify_delete() 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void d_delete_notify (struct inode *dir , struct dentry *dentry );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dir — the page says -- undescribed --, and honestly? that’s the whole vibe 😭 no extra lore, no cap.
• dentry — the dentry to delete 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This helper is used to guaranty that the unlinked inode cannot be found by lookup of this name after the fsnotify_delete event has been delivered 🔥

like, the point is the name-lookup situation stays handled after that event goes out — main character safety behavior, fr fr 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./include/linux/fsnotify.h — go peek, bestie 🫶

mwah 💋 this little page lives in ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it’s d_delete_notify(9) signing off — periodt 🎀✨