Re: networking code and splx()

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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