docs/186537: [patch] removing obsolete vnode (9) man page references

Miklos Magyari miklos at magyari.hu
Fri Feb 7 17:00:01 UTC 2014


>Number:         186537
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] removing obsolete vnode (9) man page references
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 07 17:00:01 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Miklos Magyari
>Release:        10.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD mira 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014     root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
vfree(9) and vbusy(9) are gone from kern/vfs_subr.c, and been replaced by inline code in vdropl and vholdl. 
So, the reference to these functions should be removed from the vnode manpage.

Related commit: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c?revision=234400&view=markup
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
--- vnode.9     2014-02-06 18:55:52.000000000 +0100
+++ vnode.9.new 2014-02-07 17:52:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -69,11 +69,8 @@
 .Va v_holdcnt
 of a vnode reaches zero then the vnode will be put on the freelist
 and may be reused for another file, possibly in another file system.
-The transition to and from the freelist is handled by
-.Xr getnewvnode 9 ,
-.Xr vfree 9
-and
-.Xr vbusy 9 .
+The transition from the freelist is handled by
+.Xr getnewvnode 9 .
 The third is a count of the number of clients which are writing into
 the file.
 It is maintained by the

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