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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:42:33 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues
Message-ID:  <200710190842.34286.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071019045654.GF5411@hoeg.nl>
References:  <20071016094118.GE5411@hoeg.nl> <200710170916.18788.jhb@freebsd.org> <20071019045654.GF5411@hoeg.nl>

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On Friday 19 October 2007 12:56:54 am Ed Schouten wrote:
> * John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > The best option right now is to read the code.  There are some comments in
> > both the headers and implementation.
> 
> Would it be useful to write manpages for these interfaces, or do we
> assume that only godlike people can use them anyway? I am willing to
> write manpages for them.

They already exist, but they really are only used to implement higher-level
primitives like locks and condition variables.  The rest of the kernel should
use the higher-level primitives anyway.

-- 
John Baldwin



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