simple_offset_remove(9)

💅 simple_offset_remove(9) — Kernel API Manual era 💅

okay so bestie, this is the simple_offset_remove(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is short but iconic. The official one-liner? Remove an entry to a directory's offset map. Slay.

✨ NAME ✨

simple_offset_remove — Remove an entry to a directory's offset map.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void simple_offset_remove (struct offset_ctx *octx , struct dentry
*dentry );

This is the exact call shape, bestie — copy it character for character and do not improvise 💅.

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• octx — directory offset ctx to be updated. That's the ctx getting updated, periodt.
• dentry — dentry being removed. That's the dentry on its way out.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/libfs.c is where this whole friend group lives, and here is the full roster — no skips, no cuts:

• simple_offset_init(9)
• simple_offset_add(9)
• simple_offset_rename(9)
• simple_offset_rename_exchange(9)
• simple_offset_destroy(9)
• offset_dir_llseek(9)
• offset_readdir(9)
• simple_rename_timestamp(9)
• simple_setattr(9)
• simple_write_end(9)
• simple_read_from_buffer(9)
• simple_write_to_buffer(9)
• memory_read_from_buffer(9)
• generic_encode_ino32_fh(9)
• generic_fh_to_dentry(9)
• generic_fh_to_parent(9)
• simple_fsync_noflush(9)
• simple_fsync(9)
• generic_check_addressable(9)
• simple_get_link(9)
• generic_ci_d_compare(9)
• generic_ci_d_hash(9)
• generic_ci_match(9)
• generic_set_sb_d_ops(9)
• inode_maybe_inc_iversion(9)
• inode_query_iversion(9)
• simple_inode_init_ts(9)
• path_from_stashed(9)
• simple_start_creating(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — source/version is ./fs, and the date on this one is October 2026. bye, love u, drink water 💖🦋✨