path_get(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so welcome to path_get(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — pls sit down bestie, this one's short but it's iconic 💅

💖 NAME 💖

path_get — get a reference to a path ✨ (yes, that's the whole job. she's simple. she's essential.)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void path_get (const struct path *path );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • path — the path you want to grab a reference to 🫶 that's it, that's the argument.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the tea: you hand her a path, and she increments the reference count on both the dentry and the vfsmount. That's the whole vibe. No cap, no extra steps, no drama — just refcount go up 📈💖

Like, if the dentry and the vfsmount are the main characters, path_get is the friend who shows up and says "I got you, you're staying alive" 😭👑

ngl, this one is the counterpart energy to path_put(9) — one bumps the count up, the other's the one you call when you're done. ikyk 👀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/namei.c — and like, the whole extended friend group:

that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 🍓💜 and fr fr, credit where it's due: this one lives in ./fs and it's dated October 2026 — so go forth and acquire your references responsibly ✨🎀🦋

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