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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-04-17 20:30:42 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-04-17 20:30:42 +0000
commitff87c603d773194f9e20b215a29b4b1a0cc19a78 (patch)
tree27e6eb716ea2f3a82e5309bfaaaf2ad74310876c /share/man/man9/vrele.9
parentc411842d2ce323e72aa3228f062fa891596e0aa7 (diff)
lots of fixes from jared yanovich;
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-.\" $OpenBSD: vrele.9,v 1.3 2003/06/06 20:56:32 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vrele.9,v 1.4 2004/04/17 20:30:41 jmc Exp $
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Doug Rabson
@@ -42,19 +42,16 @@
.Fn vrele "struct vnode *vp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Decrement the
-.Dv v_usecount
-field of a vnode.
-.Bl -tag -width 2n
-.It Ar vp
-the vnode to decrement
-.El
+.Fa v_usecount
+field of the vnode specified by
+.Fa vp .
.Pp
-Any code in the system which is using a vnode should call
+Any code in the system which uses a vnode should call
.Fn vrele
when it is finished with the vnode.
If the
-.Dv v_usecount
-field of the vnode reaches zero, then it will be placed on the free list.
+.Va v_usecount
+field of the vnode reaches zero, the vnode will be placed on the free list.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vget 9 ,
.Xr vnode 9 ,