1.\" -*- nroff -*- 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Doug Rabson 4.\" 5.\" All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" This program is free software. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 20.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 21.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 22.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 23.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 24.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 25.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 26.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 27.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd January 7, 2005 32.Dt VFS_VGET 9 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm VFS_VGET 36.Nd convert an inode number to a vnode 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.In sys/param.h 39.In sys/mount.h 40.In sys/vnode.h 41.Ft int 42.Fn VFS_VGET "struct mount *mp" "ino_t ino" "int flags" "struct vnode **vpp" 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Fn VFS_VGET 46looks up or creates a vnode from a (mount, inode#) tuple. 47.Pp 48Its arguments are: 49.Bl -tag -width ".Fa flags" 50.It Fa mp 51The mount point. 52.It Fa ino 53The inode representing the file. 54This is a unique number assigned by the file system when vnodes are first 55created. 56.It Fa flags 57Additional locking flags to pass through to 58.Xr vget 9 . 59.It Fa vpp 60Return parameter for the vnode. 61.El 62.Pp 63This is an optional file system entry-point for file systems mainly 64intended for NFS server use, but many file systems 65use it internally in 66.Xr VOP_LOOKUP 9 67and similar. 68.Pp 69If the file system does not support this call, then it should return 70.Er EOPNOTSUPP . 71.Pp 72Please see 73.Fn ffs_vget 74in 75.Pa sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c 76for the canonical example. 77.Sh SEE ALSO 78.Xr VFS 9 , 79.Xr vget 9 , 80.Xr vnode 9 81.Sh AUTHORS 82This manual page was written by 83.An Doug Rabson . 84