dfs_cache_canonical_path(9)

✨ dfs_cache_canonical_path(9) ✨

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's a lil baby page but it's iconic in its own way 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

dfs_cache_canonical_path — get a canonical DFS path 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

char * dfs_cache_canonical_path (const char *path , const struct
nls_table *cp , int remap );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• path — the DFS path, bestie. that's the one we're canonicalising 💖
• cp — the codepage (const struct nls_table *), told you it was const 💀
• remap — the mapping type. it's an int, don't overthink it 🙈

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

lowkey the whole vibe: it returns the canonical path if it succeeds, and an error otherwise. that's it, that's the function, and honestly? she ate 👑

literally no cap, success = canonical path, failure = error. no in-between, no extra lore 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/smb/client/dfs_cache.c — and the whole friend group:

• dfs_cache_init(9)
• dfs_cache_destroy(9)
• dfs_cache_find(9)
• dfs_cache_noreq_find(9)
• dfs_cache_noreq_update_tgthint(9)
• dfs_cache_get_tgt_referral(9)
• dfs_cache_get_tgt_share(9)
• dfs_cache_remount_fs(9)

🫶 that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 — this one dropped from ./fs/smb/client back in October 2026, and the manual name up top is the one and only dfs_cache_canonical_path(9). periodt. ⭐