1.\" 2.\" Copyright (C) 2001 Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice(s), this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as 9.\" the first lines of this file unmodified other than the possible 10.\" addition of one or more copyright notices. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice(s), this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) ``AS IS'' AND ANY 16.\" EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 17.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 18.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY 19.\" DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 20.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 21.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 22.\" CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH 25.\" DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $FreeBSD$ 28.\" 29.Dd November 21, 2001 30.Dt GETNEWVNODE 9 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm getnewvnode 34.Nd "get a new vnode" 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.In sys/param.h 37.In sys/vnode.h 38.In sys/mount.h 39.Ft int 40.Fn getnewvnode "enum vtagtype tag" "struct mount *mp" "vop_t **vops" "struct vnode **vpp" 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Fn getnewvnode 44function initializes a new vnode, assigning it the vnode operations passed in 45.Fa vops . 46The vnode is either freshly allocated, or taken from the head of the 47free list depending on the number of vnodes already in the system. 48.Pp 49The arguments to 50.Fn getnewvnode 51are: 52.Bl -tag -width ".Fa vops" 53.It Fa tag 54The filesystem type. 55.It Fa mp 56The mount point to add the new vnode to. 57.It Fa vops 58The vnode operations to assign to the new vnode. 59.It Fa vpp 60Points to the new vnode upon successful completion. 61.El 62.Sh RETURN VALUES 63.Fn getnewvnode 64returns 0 on success. 65There are currently no failure conditions - that do not result in a panic. 66.Sh AUTHORS 67This man page was written by 68.An Chad David Aq davidc@acns.ab.ca . 69