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VGET(9) FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual VGET(9) NAME vget - get a vnode from the free list SYNOPSIS #include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/vnode.h> int vget(struct vnode *vp, int flags); DESCRIPTION Get a vnode from the free list and increment its reference count. Its arguments are: vp The vnode to remove from the free list. flags If non-zero, the vnode will also be locked. When not in use, vnodes are kept on a free list. The vnodes still reference valid files but may be reused to refer to a new file at any time. Often, these vnodes are also held in caches in the system, such as the name cache. When a vnode which is on the free list is used again, for instance if the vnode was found in the name cache as a result of a call to VOP_LOOKUP(9), then the new user must call vget() to increment the reference count and remove it from the free list. ERRORS [ENOENT] The vnode vp is in the process of being cleaned out from the underlying file system. [EBUSY] The vnode vp is in the process of being cleaned out from the underlying file system, and it wasn't possible to sleep on it because the LK_NOWAIT flag was specified. SEE ALSO vnode(9), vput(9), vref(9), vrele(9) AUTHORS This man page was originally written by Doug Rabson for FreeBSD. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 May 27, 2018 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8