locks_lock_inode_wait(9)

🌸 locks_lock_inode_wait(9) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the locks_lock_inode_wait(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving kernel-lock main character energy. ✨

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💅 NAME 💅

locks_lock_inode_wait — apply a lock to an inode. no cap, that's the whole name vibe. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the signature, and yes the spacing is literally doing its thing — keep it exact, bestie:

int locks_lock_inode_wait (struct inode *inode , struct file_lock *fl );

this is the whole synopsis, fr fr. copy it literally. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

two arguments, both iconic:

• inode — inode of the file to apply to. literally the inode we're targeting. 🌸
• fl — the lock to be applied. this is the lock in question, iykyk. 💅

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Apply a POSIX or FLOCK style lock request to an inode. that's it, that's the tea — POSIX or FLOCK style, lock request, inode. slay. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/locks.c is the spot, and the SEE ALSO besties are — literally all of them, no skipping:

• locks_owner_has_blockers(9)
• lease_open_conflict(9)
• locks_delete_block(9)
• posix_lock_file(9)
• posix_lock_inode_wait(9)
• inode_lease_ignore_mask(9)
• __break_lease(9)
• lease_get_mtime(9)
• __fcntl_getlease(9)
• generic_setlease(9)
• vfs_setlease(9)
• fcntl_setlease(9)
• fcntl_setdeleg(9)
• flock_lock_inode_wait(9)
• sys_flock(9)
• vfs_test_lock(9)
• locks_translate_pid(9)
• vfs_lock_file(9)
• vfs_cancel_lock(9)
• vfs_inode_has_locks(9)

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k bye bestie 🫶💋 — this page is from source/version ./fs, dated October 2026, and it's the locks_lock_inode_wait(9) manual page. mwah, go slay. 💖