get_dent_type(9)

get_dent_type(9) ✨💅

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🫶 — this page is literally get_dent_type(9), and it’s giving “tiny function, very specific job.” no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

get_dent_type — translate VFS inode mode to UBIFS directory entry type. periodt. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

the signature is exactly this, bestie:

int get_dent_type (int mode );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mode — inode mode. that’s the one and only argument, iykyk. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file is ./fs/ubifs/journal.c, and the see-also squad is lowkey huge — every single one is here:

• zero_ino_node_unused(9)
• zero_dent_node_unused(9)
• zero_trun_node_unused(9)
• reserve_space(9)
• write_head(9)
• __queue_and_wait(9)
• wait_for_reservation(9)
• wake_up_reservation(9)
• add_or_start_queue(9)
• make_reservation(9)
• release_head(9)
• finish_reservation(9)
• pack_inode(9)
• mark_inode_clean(9)
• ubifs_jnl_update(9)
• ubifs_jnl_write_data(9)
• ubifs_jnl_write_inode(9)
• ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(9)
• ubifs_jnl_xrename(9)
• ubifs_jnl_rename(9)
• truncate_data_node(9)
• ubifs_jnl_truncate(9)
• ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(9)
• ubifs_jnl_change_xattr(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./fs/ubifs, date: October 2026. that’s the whole page, bestie. slay. 🌈