simple_xattr_cache_cleanup(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 simple_xattr_cache_cleanup(9)

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✨ NAME ✨

simple_xattr_cache_cleanup — frees the cache, that's it, that's the whole vibe 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void simple_xattr_cache_cleanup (struct simple_xattr_cache *cache );

no return value, no drama, she just does her thing and leaves 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • cache — the anchor for the hash table. like, the home base. the main character of this whole situation 💫

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is: she destroys the cache table. gone. bye. 🫶

and the lore here?? that table was lazily allocated — meaning nobody built it upfront, it only got created when the first xattr was added. so it's like that one friend who only shows up once the party's already started 😭 and now simple_xattr_cache_cleanup is the one turning the lights off.

ngl, she does not check whether anything still needs that table — the description says destroy, and she destroys. do with that information what you will 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/xattr.c, plus the whole friend group:

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