NAME
vrele —
decrement the use count for a
vnode
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/param.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>
int
vrele(struct
vnode *vp);
DESCRIPTION
Decrement the v_usecount field of the vnode specified by vp.Any code in the system which uses a vnode should call
vrele() when
it is finished with the vnode. If the v_usecount field
of the vnode reaches zero, the vnode will be placed on the free list.
RETURN VALUES
vrele() returns 0 if it can guarantee that
it did not sleep.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
This man page was originally written by Doug Rabson for FreeBSD.