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Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: msleep() on recursivly locked mutexes
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> 
>> First of all: Where is FreeBSD's locking strategy document? 
> It is just started.. man 9 locking.  it needs a lot of work still.

I'm working with rwatson@ about a document that can nicely fit in 
locking(9), but we are a little bit stuck in terminology.
In order to not confuse even more locking consumers we are trying to 
find right and unique terms for kernel events linked to locks.


Attilio