ksmbd_vfs_link(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for ksmbd_vfs_link — it's a kernel API manual page (the (9) is giving "kernel internals, not your average command line" energy 🧚), and honestly? It's a little one but it's iconic.

The vibe in one line: ksmbd_vfs_link is the vfs helper for creating smb hardlink. That's it, that's the whole personality. A tiny little link-maker doing its thing inside the kernel. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ksmbd_vfs_link (struct ksmbd_work *work , const char *oldname ,
       const char *newname );

so it takes three things and hands you back an int, no cap. 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • work — the work. that's literally it. it's the struct ksmbd_work * you're passing in. the manpage is giving minimalist queen and honestly, slay. 💅
  • oldname — the source file name. the thing you're linking from. the main character of this operation. 👑
  • newname — the hardlink name, and lowkey important detail here: it's relative to share. not a full path, bestie, keep it relative. 🌈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success — the happy ending, the vibe check passed. 💖

Otherwise: an error. that's the whole spec and we respect it. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

first up, the kernel file this lives in, shoutout to the source: ./fs/smb/server/vfs.c — the home base, the address, the place where it all happens.

and then the full squad, the whole friend group of vfs helpers, fr fr:

like, eighteen whole functions. ate. 🔥

ok tiny heads-up bestie: this page is short and sweet, so there's nothing dangerous or deprecated hiding in it — just three args, a 0-on-success contract, and a friend group of SEE ALSOs. don't invent extra behaviour for it, mkay? 🙈

and that's the page!! 🎀 sign-off time: this one comes from ./fs/smb/server, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ksmbd_vfs_link(9) in the Kernel API Manual. mwah. 💋💜

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