From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 6:11:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D1A37B4CF for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 06:11:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 715B4A82B; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:11:40 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F355464 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 00:11:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 00:11:40 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vcount - only devices? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > I'm just looking at vcount in sys/kern/vfs_subr.c. The comment says that > it works on special devices. Does this mean it wont work if called on a I think I see what it means now. It is meaning that ir works on the file the vnode is for as opposed to the vnode itself. The reason being that more than one vnode can reference the same file. Am I somewhat closer? Any release date for the Design of FreeBSD book yet? Thanks, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message