lock(9) - NetBSD Manual Pages

LOCK(9)                NetBSD Kernel Developer's Manual                LOCK(9)


NAME

     lock, simple_lock_init, simple_lock, simple_lock_try, simple_unlock,
     simple_lock_freecheck, simple_lock_dump, lockinit, lockmgr, lockstatus,
     lockmgr_printinfo, spinlockinit, spinlockmgr -- kernel lock functions


DESCRIPTION

     These interfaces have been obsoleted and removed from the system.

     Please see the condvar(9), mutex(9), and rwlock(9) manual pages for
     information on kernel synchronisation primitives.


SEE ALSO

     condvar(9), mutex(9), rwlock(9)


HISTORY

     The kernel locking API first appeared in 4.4BSD-lite2, and was replaced
     in NetBSD 5.0.

NetBSD 10.99                   January 30, 2008                   NetBSD 10.99