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authorhmp <hmp@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-23 02:22:07 +0000
committerhmp <hmp@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-23 02:22:07 +0000
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Mdoc Janitor:
* Fix hard sentence breaks.
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@@ -50,13 +50,15 @@ Each vnode has three reference counts,
and
.Va v_writecount .
The first is the number of clients within the kernel which are
-using this vnode. This count is maintained by
+using this vnode.
+This count is maintained by
.Xr vref 9 ,
.Xr vrele 9
and
.Xr vput 9 .
The second is the number of clients within the kernel who veto
-the recycling of this vnode. This count is
+the recycling of this vnode.
+This count is
maintained by
.Xr vhold 9
and
@@ -73,7 +75,8 @@ The transition to and from the freelist is handled by
and
.Xr vbusy 9 .
The third is a count of the number of clients which are writing into
-the file. It is maintained by the
+the file.
+It is maintained by the
.Xr open 2
and
.Xr close 2
@@ -85,7 +88,8 @@ Any call which returns a vnode (e.g.\&
etc.)
will increase the
.Va v_usecount
-of the vnode by one. When the caller is finished with the vnode, it
+of the vnode by one.
+When the caller is finished with the vnode, it
should release this reference by calling
.Xr vrele 9
(or
@@ -113,23 +117,25 @@ functionality.
.It Dv VNON
No type.
.It Dv VREG
-A regular file; may be with or without VM object backing. If you want
-to make sure this get a backing object, call
+A regular file; may be with or without VM object backing.
+If you want to make sure this get a backing object, call
.Xr vfs_object_create 9 .
.It Dv VDIR
A directory.
.It Dv VBLK
-A block device; may be with or without VM object backing. If you want
-to make sure this get a backing object, call
+A block device; may be with or without VM object backing.
+If you want to make sure this get a backing object, call
.Xr vfs_object_create 9 .
.It Dv VCHR
A character device.
.It Dv VLNK
A symbolic link.
.It Dv VSOCK
-A socket. Advisory locking won't work on this.
+A socket.
+Advisory locking won't work on this.
.It Dv VFIFO
-A FIFO (named pipe). Advisory locking won't work on this.
+A FIFO (named pipe).
+Advisory locking won't work on this.
.It Dv VBAD
An old style bad sector map
.El
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