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Subject: mutual exclusion in vkbd
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Hello.

I am currently trying to backport vkbd to FreeBSD 4.

Maksim Yevmenkin uses mtx_lock()/mtx_unlock() for
protecting access to data structures under FreeBSD 5/6
between the device functions and the kernel thread.

How should I best do this under FreeBSD 4?

Would something like splhigh() work in that context?
Or should I use lockmgr with LK_EXCLUSIVE/LK_RELEASE?
Is there any (pseudo)process context inside a kernel task?

Thank you for any help,

Norbert Koch