Documenting locking requirements in section 9 manual pages

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 12 12:14:13 UTC 2005


On 2005.01.12 13:29:23 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:30:19AM +0000, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> > Do we have a standard place in our section 9 manual page format
> > to describe locking requirements of kernel interfaces?
> > 
> > What do folks think of a ".Sh LOCKING" section like
> > the existing ".Sh RETURN VALUES"?
> > 
> I think this is important enough to be worth a separate section.
> Fine with me.  Make sure to update share/examples/mdoc/example.9
> if you go this way.

Actually we don't have a section 9 example, only 1, 3, and 4.  I guess
it should be fairly simple for somebody to make an example.9 based on
one of the other pages.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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