ecryptfs_lookup(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this page is literally called ecryptfs_lookup — and the original description line is just a dash with nothing after it, bestie. That's the whole NAME vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct dentry * ecryptfs_lookup (struct inode *ecryptfs_dir_inode ,
struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry , unsigned int flags );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ecryptfs_dir_inode — the eCryptfs directory inode, aka the directory energy we're working with. 🗂️
• ecryptfs_dentry — the eCryptfs dentry that we are looking up. This is the thing we're trying to find, no cap. 🔍
• flags — lookup flags. Just flags doing their flag thing. 🚩

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the mission is simple: find a file on disk. If the file does not exist, then we'll add it to the dentry cache and continue on to read it from the disk. That's the whole plot, bestie. ✨

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Kernel file ./fs/ecryptfs/inode.c has the lore, and you should also peek at ecryptfs_interpose(9), ecryptfs_do_create(9), upper_size_to_lower_size(9), __ecryptfs_truncate(9), ecryptfs_truncate(9), and ecryptfs_setattr(9). iykyk 🫶

mwah 💋 — this cutie came from ./fs/ecryptfs and it's dated October 2026. slay and read responsibly ✨