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29.Dd February 11, 2013
30.Dt VFS_BUSY 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm vfs_busy
34.Nd "marks a mount point as busy"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/mount.h
38.Ft int
39.Fn vfs_busy "struct mount *mp" "int flags"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Fn vfs_busy
43function marks a mount point as busy by incrementing
44the reference count of a mount point.
45It also delays unmounting by sleeping on
46.Fa mp
47if the
48.Dv MNTK_UNMOUNT
49flag is set in
50.Fa mp->mnt_kern_flag
51and the
52.Dv MBF_NOWAIT
53flag is
54.Em not
55set.
56.Pp
57Its arguments are:
58.Bl -tag -width ".Fa flags"
59.It Fa mp
60The mount point to busy.
61.It Fa flags
62Flags controlling how
63.Fn vfs_busy
64should act.
65.Bl -tag -width ".Dv MBF_MNTLSTLOCK"
66.It Dv MBF_NOWAIT
67do not sleep if
68.Dv MNTK_UNMOUNT
69is set.
70.It Dv MBF_MNTLSTLOCK
71drop the mountlist_mtx in the critical path.
72.El
73.El
74.Sh RETURN VALUES
75A 0 value is returned on success.
76If the mount point is being
77unmounted and MBF_NOWAIT flag is specified
78.Er ENOENT
79will be returned.
80.Sh ERRORS
81.Bl -tag -width Er
82.It Bq Er ENOENT
83The mount point is being unmounted
84.Dv ( MNTK_UNMOUNT
85is set).
86.El
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr vfs_unbusy 9
89.Sh AUTHORS
90This manual page was written by
91.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
92