ilookup

Name

ilookup --  search for an inode in the inode cache

Synopsis

struct inode * ilookup (struct super_block * sb, unsigned long ino);

Arguments

sb

super block of file system to search

ino

inode number to search for

Description

If the inode is in the cache, the inode is returned with an incremented reference count.

Otherwise, NULL is returned.

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