fh_fill_pre_attrs(9)

🦋 fh_fill_pre_attrs(9) 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a lil kernel function called fh_fill_pre_attrs and ngl it's a whole supporting-character icon in the nfsd file-handle saga 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

fh_fill_pre_attrs — fills in the pre-op attributes 🎀 like that's literally the whole job, she's a pre-op girlie, not a post-op girlie, know the difference 😤

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

__be32 fh_fill_pre_attrs (struct svc_fh *fhp );

that's it. that's the whole signature. one arg, done, slay 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• fhp — the file handle that needs to be updated 👑 she gets filled in, that's her moment, main character energy fr fr

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group, no cap, they all show up together:

• Kernel file ./fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c — the home base 🏠
• __fh_verify(9)
• fh_verify_local(9)
• fh_verify(9)
• fh_getattr(9)
• fh_fill_post_attrs(9) — her sister, the other half of the vibe check 😭
• fh_fill_both_attrs(9) — the both-eras icon 🌈
• nfsd4_change_attribute(9)

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bestie reminder: fh_fill_pre_attrs is only about the pre-op attributes. don't go expecting post-op behaviour from her, that's a different function entirely and we respect the boundary 💀

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mwah 💋 that's a wrap — much love from ./fs/nfsd, dated October 2026, and yes the version is the manual page name itself: fh_fill_pre_attrs(9), iconic behaviour, periodt ⭐