networking code and splx()

John Hay jhay at meraka.org.za
Tue Mar 20 07:31:54 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:14:33PM +0000, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Ignacio Rey wrote:
> >...
> >The question is: Have calls to these functions been wrapped? or are they
> >simply not used in this context?
> >  
> splx() and friends have been no-ops since FreeBSD 5.x was branched. 
> Synchronization is now done using other mechanisms such as mutexes and 
> spin locks. See the new man page locking(9) in -CURRENT.

It does not seem to get installed:

Doing a grep for locking in /usr/src/share/man/man9/Makefile produce
nothing.

John
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