vref(9) on FreeBSD
The text d5bed477d316, as FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE shipped it.
increment the use count for a vnode