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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:45:45 +0200
From:      Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273400 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <20141021214545.GC28763@dft-labs.eu>
In-Reply-To: <50143173-0319-45C0-A00E-AD2AA303C65D@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201410211902.s9LJ2RoA031960@svn.freebsd.org> <50143173-0319-45C0-A00E-AD2AA303C65D@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:40:38PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
> On 21 Oct 2014, at 19:02 , Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Author: mjg
> > Date: Tue Oct 21 19:02:26 2014
> > New Revision: 273400
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/273400
> > 
> > Log:
> >  Rename sysctl_lock and _unlock to sysctl_xlock and _xunlock.
> 
> You are perfectly describing what you are doing, but I’d also like to understand the “why?”
> 

First off, these function do lock sysctl exclusively, so I find this to
be a better suited name.

In https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273401 I added
shared locking to sysctl and this change "coincidently" freed up a nice
name for a functions which remember previous lock type and lock it the
same way later.

-- 
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>



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