Re: networking code and splx()

John, good day.

Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:31:50AM +0200, John Hay wrote:

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:

The locking.9 is not the part of the current build as the comment
of the initial commit of that file says.

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

But if you're running -CURRENT, then you can view the page from
the sources (assuming that you have the system sources in /usr/src/):
$ groff -Tascii -mandoc /usr/src/share/man/man9/locking.9 | less

Our you can download the locking.9 from
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man9/locking.9
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