nfs3svc_encode_entryplus3(9)

✨ nfs3svc_encode_entryplus3 ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to another episode of the Kernel API Manual 💅 and today's main character is a little function called nfs3svc_encode_entryplus3 — it's the one that encodes one NFSv3 READDIRPLUS entry. that's it, that's the vibe. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int nfs3svc_encode_entryplus3 (void *data , const char *name , int
namlen , loff_t offset , u64 ino , unsigned int d_type );

like, yes, it's a whole mouthful, but we move 💖

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• data — the directory context. it's giving "the whole situation" energy 🗂️
• name — the name of the object we're encoding. the moment. the icon. ✨
• namlen — how long that name is, in bytes. we're counting, bestie 📏
• offset — the offset of the previous entry. yes, previous. pay attention 🫶
• ino — the fileid of this entry. its literal ID, no cap 🔥
• d_type — unused. bestie's just here for moral support, she does nothing 💀

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea ☕ — this function returns:

• 0 — slay! the entry was successfully encoded 🎉
• -EINVAL — uh oh, an encoding problem happened 😭 and the secondary status code lives in resp->common.err, so go look there

on exit, these fields get updated, periodt:

• resp->xdr
• resp->common.err
• resp->cookie_offset

like three little glow-ups on the way out 🌈💅

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
• svcxdr_decode_nfs_fh3(9)
• svcxdr_encode_nfsstat3(9)
• svcxdr_encode_post_op_attr(9)
• nfs3svc_encode_cookie3(9)
• nfs3svc_encode_entry3(9)

go read them, iykyk 📚✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 shoutout to the source ./fs/nfsd and the date October 2026 — catch you on the next manpage, mwah 💜🎀