Subject: re: funlink() for fun!
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/15/2003 10:31:31
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, matthew green wrote:

>
>    Yes, "file handles" as some folks call them.  They are effectively
>    vnodes in the *BSD terminology.
>
> "file handles" and "vnodes" are not the same thing.  i can have
> multiple file handles for the same vnode...

How so? There's a 1-to-1 correspondence between the output of getfh() (and
VFS_VPTOFH()) and the in-core vnode, which is rather important for an NFS
server. ;-)

Take care,

Bill