'\" t
.\"     Title: d_really_is_negative
.\"    Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author]
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
.\"      Date: January 2017
.\"    Manual: The Linux VFS
.\"    Source: Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.15
.\"  Language: English
.\"
.TH "D_REALLY_IS_NEGATIVE" "9" "January 2017" "Kernel Hackers Manual 4\&.8\&." "The Linux VFS"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
.el       .ds Aq '
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * set default formatting
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" disable hyphenation
.nh
.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
.ad l
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.SH "NAME"
d_really_is_negative \- Determine if a dentry is really negative (ignoring fallthroughs)
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'bool\ d_really_is_negative('u
.BI "bool d_really_is_negative(const\ struct\ dentry\ *\ " "dentry" ");"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
\fIdentry\fR
.RS 4
The dentry in question
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Returns true if the dentry represents either an absent name or a name that doesn\*(Aqt map to an inode (ie\&. \->d_inode is NULL)\&. The dentry could represent a true miss, a whiteout that isn\*(Aqt represented by a 0,0 chardev or a fallthrough marker in an opaque directory\&.
.PP
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\*(Aqs dentries\&. (2) It should also be used in combination with
\fBd_inode\fR
to get the inode\&. (3) The dentry may have something attached to \->d_lower and the type field of the flags may be set to something other than miss or whiteout\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.br