Manual Pages  — VFLUSH

vflush – flush vnodes for a mount point

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO AUTHORS

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/vnode.h>

int
vflush(struct mount *mp, int rootrefs, int flags, struct thread *td);

The vflush() function removes any vnodes in the vnode table that belong to the given mount structure.

Its arguments are:

mp
	The mount point whose vnodes should be removed.
rootrefs
	The number of references expected on the root vnode. vrele(9) will be invoked on the root vnode rootrefs times.
flags
	The flags indicating how vnodes should be handled.

FORCECLOSE
	If set, busy vnodes will be forcibly closed.
SKIPSYSTEM
	If set, vnodes with the VV_SYSTEM flag set will be skipped.
WRITECLOSE
	If set, only regular files currently opened for writing will be removed.

td
	The calling thread.

A value of 0 is returned if the flush is successful; otherwise, EBUSY will be returned.

This manual page was written by Chad David <Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca>.