gfs2_symlink(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for gfs2_symlink(9), bestie 💖, and the assignment is literally Create a symlink. That's it. That's the whole vibe. lowkey iconic. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is giving very “here’s exactly what you pass in,” no cap:

int gfs2_symlink (struct mnt_idmap *idmap , struct inode *dir , struct
       dentry *dentry , const char *symname );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• idmap — the idmap of the mount the inode was found from. periodt. 🫶
• dir — the directory to create the symlink in. your directory, your rules 💅
• dentry — the dentry to put the symlink in. iykyk 🦋
• symname — the thing which the link points to. the target, the moment, the main character 🎯

💫 RETURN 💫

errno. that’s the return value, bestie — no extra lore. 😌

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you wanna go deeper, the kernel file is ./fs/gfs2/inode.c, and here’s the whole SEE ALSO squad in order:

• 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_mkdir(9)
• gfs2_mknod(9)
• gfs2_atomic_open(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 that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶. This cutie lives in ./fs/gfs2, it’s dated October 2026, and it’s still gfs2_symlink(9) — periodt. 💜