ecryptfs_interpose(9)

💅 ecryptfs_interpose(9) 💅

hiii bestie!! welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ecryptfs_interpose(9) — yes, the one and only. let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

• ecryptfs_interpose — the NAME line is just ecryptfs_interpose plus a dash and then... nothing. iconic in a mysterious way 💀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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int ecryptfs_interpose (struct dentry *lower_dentry , struct dentry
       *dentry , struct super_block *sb );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• lower_dentry — Existing dentry in the lower filesystem. 🫶
• dentry — ecryptfs' dentry. 💅
• sb — ecryptfs's super_block. 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Interposes upper and lower dentries. that's the whole job, slay. ✨

Returns zero on success; non-zero otherwise. 💯

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/ecryptfs/inode.c — go peek at ecryptfs_do_create(9), ecryptfs_lookup(9), upper_size_to_lower_size(9), __ecryptfs_truncate(9), ecryptfs_truncate(9), and ecryptfs_setattr(9). iykyk 👀

💖 and that's a wrap! source/version: ./fs/ecryptfs; date: October 2026; page: ecryptfs_interpose(9). bye bestie, mwah! 🫶💅