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+.\" $OpenBSD: vget.9,v 1.12 2018/05/27 06:02:14 visa Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Doug Rabson
+.\"
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man9/vget.9,v 1.7 2001/12/26 23:14:04 davidc Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 27 2018 $
+.Dt VGET 9
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm vget
+.Nd get a vnode from the free list
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/param.h
+.In sys/vnode.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn vget "struct vnode *vp" "int flags"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+Get a vnode from the free list and increment its reference count.
+.Pp
+Its arguments are:
+.Bl -tag -width flags
+.It Fa vp
+The vnode to remove from the free list.
+.It Fa flags
+If non-zero, the vnode will also be locked.
+.El
+.Pp
+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.
+.Pp
+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
+.Xr VOP_LOOKUP 9 ,
+then the new user must call
+.Fn vget
+to increment the reference count and remove it from the free list.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er ENOENT
+The vnode
+.Fa vp
+is in the process of being cleaned out from the underlying
+file system.
+.It Bq Er EBUSY
+The vnode
+.Fa 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
+.Dv LK_NOWAIT
+flag was specified.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr vnode 9 ,
+.Xr vput 9 ,
+.Xr vref 9 ,
+.Xr vrele 9
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This man page was originally written by
+.An Doug Rabson
+for
+.Fx .