d_really_is_positive (9) Linux Manual Page
d_really_is_positive – Determine if a dentry is really positive (ignoring fallthroughs)
Synopsis
- bool d_really_is_positive(const struct dentry
* dentry);
Arguments
dentry
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- The dentry in question
Description
Returns true if the dentry represents a name that maps to an inode (ie. ->d_inode is not NULL). The dentry might still represent a whiteout if that is represented on medium as a 0,0 chardev.
Note! (1) This should be used *only* by a filesystem to examine its own dentries. It should not be used to look at some other filesystem’s dentries. (2) It should also be used in combination with d_inode to get the inode.