NAME vrele - decrement the use count for a vnode CONTENTS Synopsis Description See Also Authors SYNOPSIS .In sys/param.h .In sys/vnode.h void vrele "struct vnode *vp" DESCRIPTION Decrement the v_usecount field of a vnode.
Any code in the system which is using a vnode should call vrele when it is finished with the vnode. If the v_usecount field of the vnode reaches zero, then it will be placed on the free list. SEE ALSO vget(9), vnode(9), vput(9), vref(9) AUTHORS