CLEAR_NLINK(9) The Linux VFS CLEAR_NLINK(9)NAMEclear_nlink - directly zero an inode's link count
SYNOPSIS
void clear_nlink(struct inode * inode);
ARGUMENTS
inode
inode
DESCRIPTION
This is a low-level filesystem helper to replace any direct filesystem
manipulation of i_nlink. See drop_nlink for why we care about i_nlink
hitting zero.
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