v9fs_vfs_link_dotl(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is the v9fs_vfs_link_dotl page from the Kernel API Manual — and it's literally the function that creates a hardlink for dotl. no cap, that's the vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is giving “I return an int, and I take three very specific struct friends”:

int v9fs_vfs_link_dotl (struct dentry *old_dentry , struct inode *dir ,
       struct dentry *dentry );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• old_dentry — the dentry for the file to link to. it's giving “original file energy” 💖
• dir — the inode destination for the new link. that's where the new link is headed, periodt.
• dentry — the dentry for the link. yes bestie, the link itself has a dentry too 🦋

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

my bestie, there's a whole kernel-file friend group here:

• Kernel file ./fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
• v9fs_get_fsgid_for_create(9)
• v9fs_open_to_dotl_flags(9)
• v9fs_vfs_create_dotl(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mkdir_dotl(9)
• v9fs_vfs_setattr_dotl(9)
• v9fs_stat2inode_dotl(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mknod_dotl(9)
• v9fs_vfs_get_link_nocache_dotl(9)
• v9fs_vfs_get_link_dotl(9)

xoxo bestie 💅✨ — signed from source/version ./fs/9p, dated October 2026, and that's the whole footer vibe 🫶🌈