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34 .Nd turn an NFS filehandle into a vnode
40 .Fn VFS_FHTOVP "struct mount *mp" "struct fid *fhp" "struct vnode **vpp"
42 This is used by the NFS server to turn an NFS filehandle into a vnode.
49 The filehandle to convert.
51 Return parameter for the new locked vnode.
54 The contents of the filehandle are defined by the filesystem and are
55 not examined by any other part of the system. It should contain
56 enough information to uniquely identify a file within the filesystem
57 as well as noticing when a file has been removed and the filesystem
58 resources have been reused for a new file. For instance, UFS
59 filesystem stores the inode number and inode generation counter in its
62 A call to this function should generally be preceded by a call to
64 to check if the file is accessible to the client.
66 The locked vnode for the file will be returned in
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