gfs2_atomic_open(9)

🦋 gfs2_atomic_open(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

okay so bestie 💖, this is the group-chat translation of the gfs2_atomic_open(9) page, and it's literally all about atomically opening a file. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

gfs2_atomic_open — Atomically open a file. that's the whole assignment, periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int gfs2_atomic_open (struct inode *dir , struct dentry *dentry , struct
file *file , unsigned flags , umode_t mode );

like, look at this signature. it's giving "kernel function with main character energy" 🔥

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dir — the directory. yes bestie, that one 🎀
• dentry — the proposed new entry. okay? 💖
• file — the proposed new struct file. literally 🦋
• flags — open flags. no cap ✨
• mode — file mode. slay 🌸

🔥 RETURN 🔥

you get an error code or 0 for success — that's the whole vibe check. 0 is the slay, anything else is the error code, bestie 😭🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, iykyk 🫶:

• Kernel file ./fs/gfs2/inode.c
• gfs2_set_iop(9)
• gfs2_inode_lookup(9)
• gfs2_lookup_by_inum(9)
• gfs2_lookup_meta(9)
• gfs2_lookupi(9)
• create_ok(9)
• gfs2_init_xattr(9)
• init_dinode(9)
• gfs2_trans_da_blks(9)
• gfs2_create_inode(9)
• gfs2_create(9)
• __gfs2_lookup(9)
• gfs2_link(9)
• gfs2_unlink_inode(9)
• gfs2_unlink(9)
• gfs2_symlink(9)
• gfs2_mkdir(9)
• gfs2_mknod(9)
• update_moved_ino(9)
• gfs2_rename(9)
• gfs2_exchange(9)
• gfs2_get_link(9)
• gfs2_permission(9)
• gfs2_setattr(9)
• gfs2_getattr(9)

okay bye bestie 💅 this page is sourced from ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026, and it's the gfs2_atomic_open(9) manual. mwah 🫶