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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:51:06 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_synch.c
Message-ID:  <43FCCEBA.5060309@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200602222046.k1MKkBgI077922@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200602222046.k1MKkBgI077922@repoman.freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
>   Log:
>   Fixup some comments.  Mutexes's are locked, not entered for several years

What's the difference?  I thought "lock a mutex", "enter a mutex", and "pick
up a lock" were all interchangeable.

Colin Percival



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