v9fs_vfs_symlink(9)

💫 v9fs_vfs_symlink(9) 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for v9fs_vfs_symlink — yes that's the whole title, and yes we're getting into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

v9fs_vfs_symlink — the lil helper function that creates symlinks 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int v9fs_vfs_symlink (struct mnt_idmap *idmap , struct inode *dir ,
       struct dentry *dentry , const char *symname );

like, that's the whole signature, no cap 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• idmap — the idmap of the mount, she's just here to tell you whose ids are whose ✨
• dir — the directory inode that's holding the symlink 📁
• dentry — the dentry for the symlink itself, main character energy fr fr 👑
• symname — the symlink data, aka the actual link content 🔗

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea: this is the helper that handles symlink creation 🧚

See Also: the 9P2000.u RFC for more information — go read it, iykyk 📖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/9p/vfs_inode.c 📂
• unixmode2p9mode(9)
• p9mode2perm(9)
• p9mode2unixmode(9)
• v9fs_uflags2omode(9)
• v9fs_blank_wstat(9)
• v9fs_alloc_inode(9)
• v9fs_free_inode(9)
• v9fs_evict_inode(9)
• v9fs_at_to_dotl_flags(9)
• v9fs_dec_count(9)
• v9fs_remove(9)
• v9fs_create(9)
• v9fs_vfs_create(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mkdir(9)
• v9fs_vfs_lookup(9)
• v9fs_vfs_unlink(9)
• v9fs_vfs_rmdir(9)
• v9fs_vfs_rename(9)
• v9fs_vfs_getattr(9)
• v9fs_vfs_setattr(9)
• v9fs_stat2inode(9)
• v9fs_vfs_get_link(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mkspecial(9)
• v9fs_vfs_link(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mknod(9)

like, that's a whole friend group right there 😭🫶

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and that's the page!! source is ./fs/9p, dated October 2026, filed under v9fs_vfs_symlink(9) — slay, go create some symlinks bestie 💅⭐💜