NAME

vclean — disassociate the underlying file system from a vnode

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>

void
vclean(struct vnode *vp, int flags, struct proc *p);

The vclean() function clears any VM and buffer data associated with the vnode vp and reclaims it from the underlying file system.

Its arguments are:

vp

The vnode to be cleaned.

flags

The flags indicating how the vnode should be handled.

DOCLOSE: If this flag is set, vclean() will call vinvalbuf(9) on the vnode. If the vnode is active, it will be closed and inactivated in the underlying file system.

p

The process responsible for this call.

On exit, the v_tag field of the vnode will be set to VT_NON, and if the vnode was active, it will be placed on the vnode free list.

This man page was originally written for OpenBSD.