lowest_xent_key(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to lowest_xent_key(9) — a Kernel API Manual page, and it is literally here to get the lowest possible extended attribute entry key. that's the assignment. that's the whole vibe. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is exactly this, no cap:

void lowest_xent_key (const struct ubifs_info *c , union ubifs_key *key
, ino_t inum );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object, aka the main-character context for this whole operation 🦋
• key — where to store the lowest key, literally the spot it goes 💖
• inum — the host inode number, no substitutions, fr fr

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/key.h is the source spot for this whole friend group of references:

• key_mask_hash(9)
• key_r5_hash(9)
• key_test_hash(9)
• ino_key_init(9)
• ino_key_init_flash(9)
• lowest_ino_key(9)
• highest_ino_key(9)
• dent_key_init(9)
• dent_key_init_hash(9)
• dent_key_init_flash(9)
• lowest_dent_key(9)
• xent_key_init(9)
• xent_key_init_flash(9)
• data_key_init(9)
• highest_data_key(9)
• trun_key_init(9)
• invalid_key_init(9)
• key_type(9)
• key_type_flash(9)
• key_inum(9)
• key_inum_flash(9)
• key_hash(9)
• key_hash_flash(9)
• key_block(9)
• key_block_flash(9)
• key_read(9)
• key_write(9)
• key_write_idx(9)
• key_copy(9)
• keys_cmp(9)
• keys_eq(9)
• is_hash_key(9)
• key_max_inode_size(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./fs/ubifs — dated October 2026. that's the cute little footer, bestie 🫶