file_end_write(9)

file_end_write(9) 🎀

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for file_end_write — pull up a chair, bestie, it's a tiny one and it ate. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

file_end_write — drop write access to a superblock of a regular file 🫶

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

void file_end_write (struct file *file );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• file — the file we wrote to. that's the whole argument, no cap.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

this is the matching end move, bestie: it should be matched with a call to file_start_write. like, they're a set — that's the vibe. ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Kernel file: ./include/linux/fs.h, and the whole reference squad is:

• enum positive_aop_returns(9)
• struct address_space(9)
• struct file_ra_state(9)
• struct file(9)
• i_uid_into_vfsuid(9)
• i_uid_needs_update(9)
• i_uid_update(9)
• i_gid_into_vfsgid(9)
• i_gid_needs_update(9)
• i_gid_update(9)
• inode_fsuid_set(9)
• inode_fsgid_set(9)
• fsuidgid_has_mapping(9)
• inode_set_ctime(9)
• file_write_started(9)
• file_write_not_started(9)
• struct renamedata(9)
• is_mgtime(9)
• iput_if_not_last(9)
• is_idmapped_mnt(9)
• file_start_write(9)
• kiocb_start_write(9)
• kiocb_end_write(9)
• name_is_dot_dotdot(9)
• name_contains_dotdot(9)
• inode_dio_begin(9)
• inode_dio_end(9)
• generic_ci_validate_strict_name(9)

okay that's the page, bestie 💖 it's from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's the file_end_write(9) manual. mwah 💋