Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:44:52 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation on kernel locks, mutexes? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021130184341.29371C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3DE1FAAB.81356E0A@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Yury Tarasievich wrote: > > I need to port some driver from linux to freebsd and, somehow, > > I can't find documentation on kernel locks and mutexes. > > There are no man pages, links from handbook are broken, and search on > > freebsd site gives nothing (besides the handbook itself). > > > > Where can I find some docs? > > Kernel documentation is poor, because interfaces are not as fixed in > stone as you might expect them to be to encourage third party > developement and porting efforts like yours. Funny, the SMPng primitives seem in general to be fairly well documented. See my previous e-mail to Yury with a list of man page references. It's certainly true that the source is a good reference to look at existing locking strategies, but there certainly do appear to be man pages for the locking primitives. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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