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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-31 22:59:30 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-31 22:59:30 +0000
commit34743620f64d6134d90c229b248a66c4f133a324 (patch)
tree335aa294ae632ce2f86219677c7e3092fc6bd284 /share/man
parent4ae0cb4ee88f6e7821afa59d392eaf8bb26f6058 (diff)
minor tweaks;
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/vnsubr.9 b/share/man/man9/vnsubr.9
index 768c3c99b3d..291235cf42c 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/vnsubr.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/vnsubr.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: vnsubr.9,v 1.2 2005/05/28 00:58:48 marius Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vnsubr.9,v 1.3 2005/05/31 22:59:29 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vnsubr.9,v 1.21 2004/05/25 14:54:56 hannken Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -79,9 +79,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The high-level functions described in this page are convenience
functions for simplified access to the vnode operations described in
-.Xr vnodeops 9 .
-.Sh FUNCTIONS
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
+.Xr VOP_LOOKUP 9 .
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fn vn_close "vp" "flags" "cred" "p"
Common code for a vnode close.
The argument
@@ -89,7 +88,7 @@ The argument
is the unlocked vnode of the vnode to close.
.Fn vn_close
simply locks the vnode, invokes the vnode operation
-.Xr VOP_CLOSE 9
+.Fn VOP_CLOSE
and calls
.Fn vput
to return the vnode to the freelist or holdlist.
@@ -121,7 +120,8 @@ etc., to ensure that
actually means something.
If the operation is successful zero is returned, otherwise 1 is returned.
.It Fn vn_lock "vp" "flags" "p"
-Acquire the vnode lock. Certain file system operations require that
+Acquire the vnode lock.
+Certain file system operations require that
the vnode lock be held when they are called.
See
.Pa sys/kern/vnode_if.src
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ specify the
file mode and the access permissions for creation.
.Fn vn_open
checks permissions and invokes the
-.Xr VOP_OPEN 9
+.Fn VOP_OPEN
or
.Xr VOP_CREATE 9
vnode operations.
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ For further information on these parameters see
.It Fn vn_stat "vp" "sb" "p"
Common code for a vnode stat operation.
The vnode is specified by the argument
-.Fa vp
+.Fa vp ,
and
.Fa sb
is the buffer to return the stat information.
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ The argument
is the calling process.
.Fn vn_stat
basically calls the vnode operation
-.Xr VOP_GETATTR 9
-and transfer the contents of a vattr structure into a struct stat.
+.Fn VOP_GETATTR
+and transfers the contents of a vattr structure into a struct stat.
If the operation is successful zero is returned, otherwise an
appropriate error code is returned.
.It Fn vn_writechk "vp"
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ would have slept.
.El
.Sh CODE REFERENCES
This section describes places within the
-.Nx
+.Ox
source tree where actual code implementing or using the vnode
framework can be found.
All pathnames are relative to
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ the lock before they exit.
Discussions with Kirk McKusick indicate that locking
discipline evolved out of the pre-VFS way of doing inode locking.
In addition, the current locking discipline may actually save
-lines of code, esp. if the number of file systems is fewer
+lines of code, especially if the number of file systems is fewer
than the number of call sites.
However, the VFS interface would
require less wizardry if the locking discipline were simpler.