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GETNEWVNODE(9) FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual GETNEWVNODE(9)
NAME
getnewvnode - get a new vnode
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
int
getnewvnode(const char *tag, struct mount *mp, vop_t **vops,
struct vnode **vpp);
DESCRIPTION
The getnewvnode() function initializes a new vnode, assigning it the
vnode operations passed in vops. The vnode is either freshly allocated,
or taken from the head of the free list depending on the number of vnodes
already in the system.
The arguments to getnewvnode() are:
tag The file system type string. This field should only be referenced
for debugging or for userland utilities.
mp The mount point to add the new vnode to.
vops The vnode operations to assign to the new vnode.
vpp Points to the new vnode upon successful completion.
RETURN VALUES
getnewvnode() returns 0 on success. There are currently no failure
conditions - that do not result in a panic.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 November 21, 2001 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6