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29.Dd May 19, 2019
30.Dt VFS_FHTOVP 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm VFS_FHTOVP
34.Nd turn an NFS filehandle into a vnode
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/mount.h
38.In sys/vnode.h
39.Ft int
40.Fn VFS_FHTOVP "struct mount *mp" "struct fid *fhp" "int flags" "struct vnode **vpp"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Fn VFS_FHTOVP
44macro is used by the NFS server to turn an NFS filehandle into a vnode.
45.Pp
46The arguments it expects are:
47.Bl -tag -width flags
48.It Fa mp
49The file system.
50.It Fa fhp
51The filehandle to convert.
52.It Fa flags
53Additional locking flags to pass through to
54.Xr vget 9 .
55File systems are allowed to ignore
56.Ar flags
57and use
58.Dv LK_EXCLUSIVE
59instead.
60.It Fa vpp
61Return parameter for the new locked vnode.
62.El
63.Pp
64The contents of the filehandle are defined by the file system and are
65not examined by any other part of the system.
66It should contain
67enough information to uniquely identify a file within the file system
68as well as noticing when a file has been removed and the file system
69resources have been reused for a new file.
70For instance, UFS
71file system stores the inode number and inode generation counter in its
72filehandle.
73.Pp
74A call to
75.Fn VFS_FHTOVP
76should generally be preceded by a call to
77.Xr VFS_CHECKEXP 9
78to check if the file is accessible to the client.
79.Sh RETURN VALUES
80The locked vnode for the file will be returned in
81.Fa *vpp .
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr VFS 9 ,
84.Xr VFS_CHECKEXP 9 ,
85.Xr vnode 9 ,
86.Xr VOP_VPTOFH 9
87.Sh AUTHORS
88This manual page was written by
89.An Doug Rabson .
90