Name

drop_nlink — directly drop an inode's link count

Synopsis

void drop_nlink (struct inode *  inode);

Arguments

inode

inode

Description

This is a low-level filesystem helper to replace any direct filesystem manipulation of i_nlink. In cases where we are attempting to track writes to the filesystem, a decrement to zero means an imminent write when the file is truncated and actually unlinked on the filesystem.