nfs2_decode_dirent(9)

🦋 nfs2_decode_dirent(9) 🦋

okay bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual now, and this page is giving “one NFSv2 directory entry, decoded, no cap.” ✨

💖 NAME 💖

nfs2_decode_dirent — decode a single NFSv2 directory entry stored in the local page cache. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

       int nfs2_decode_dirent (struct xdr_stream *xdr , struct nfs_entry *entry
       , bool plus );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• xdr — the XDR stream where the entry resides. 💫
• entry — the buffer to fill in with entry data. 🫶
• plus — a boolean indicating whether this should be a readdirplus entry. 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Returns zero if successful, otherwise a negative errno value is returned. slay when it's zero, 😭 when it's negative.

This function is not invoked during READDIR reply decoding, bestie — it's invoked whenever an application invokes the getdents(2) system call on a directory already in our cache. periodt. 🦋

🎀 2.2.17. entry 🎀

       struct entry { unsigned        fileid; filename        name; nfscookie
       cookie; entry           *nextentry; };

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c 👀

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./fs/nfs, date: October 2026, and it's the nfs2_decode_dirent(9) page, signing off! 🫶💖