nfsd_rename(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 nfsd_rename(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nfsd_rename — rename a directory entry 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is exactly this, bestie — copy it character for character or the vibe check will fail 🫶

__be32 nfsd_rename (struct svc_rqst *rqstp , struct svc_fh *ffhp , char
       *fname , int flen , struct svc_fh *tfhp , char *tname , int tlen );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • rqstp — the RPC transaction context, aka the request's little passport 🌈
  • ffhp — the file handle of parent directory containing the entry to be renamed 🗂️
  • fname — the filename of directory entry to be renamed ✏️
  • flen — the length of fname in octets 📏
  • tfhp — the file handle of parent directory to contain the renamed entry 📁
  • tname — the filename of the new entry 🏷️
  • tlen — the length of tlen in octets 👀 that's what the page says, and we're not editing the icon's receipts, fr fr

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕: after this call _both_ ffhp and tfhp need an fh_put — literally both of them, bestie, don't leave either one hanging 😭.

it returns a generic NFS status code in network byte-order ✨.

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

the kernel file ./fs/nfsd/vfs.c is in the chat too 👋 and these are the linked icons, all in their exact (9) glory:

xoxo, your resident Unix bestie 🧚💖 — this page's source/version is ./fs/nfsd, dated October 2026, and that's the footer flex periodt 💅

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