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Subject: Re: FreeBSD spinlock - compatibility layer
From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
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On 22 May 2013 13:12, Orit Moskovich <oritm@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I appreciate all your help!
>
> The section about the unbounded sleep wasn't included in the man page I've read so I wan't familiar with that concept...(http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/9/locking/)

Ahh, they seem to be hosting a rather old version.  Google doesn't
rate FreeBSD's particularly highly, perhaps due to robots.txt settings
for the cgi content on http://www.freebsd.org/.  You'll find a mostly
up-to-date one at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=locking&sektion=9 .