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28.Dd $Mdocdate: November 14 2020 $
29.Dt VCLEAN 9
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm vclean
33.Nd disassociate the underlying file system from a vnode
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.In sys/param.h
36.In sys/vnode.h
37.Ft void
38.Fo vclean
39.Fa "struct vnode *vp"
40.Fa "int flags"
41.Fa "struct proc *p"
42.Fc
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn vclean
46function clears any VM and buffer data associated with the vnode
47.Fa vp
48and reclaims it from the underlying file system.
49.Pp
50Its arguments are:
51.Bl -tag -width "flags"
52.It Fa vp
53The vnode to be cleaned.
54.It Fa flags
55The flags indicating how the vnode should be handled.
56.Bl -tag -width "DOCLOSE"
57.It Dv DOCLOSE
58If this flag is set,
59.Fn vclean
60will call
61.Xr vinvalbuf 9
62on the vnode.
63If the vnode is active, it will be closed and inactivated in the
64underlying file system.
65.El
66.It Fa p
67The process responsible for this call.
68.El
69.Pp
70On exit, the
71.Va v_tag
72field of the vnode will be set to
73.Dv VT_NON ,
74and if the vnode was active, it will be placed on the vnode free list.
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr vinvalbuf 9 ,
77.Xr vnode 9
78.Sh HISTORY
79This man page was originally written for
80.Ox .
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