LOCK(9)

LOCK(9) | Kernel Developer's Manual | LOCK(9)

# NAME

lock, simple_lock_init, simple_lock, simple_lock_try, simple_unlock, simple_lock_freecheck, simple_lock_dump, lockinit, lockmgr, lockstatus, lockmgr_printinfo, spinlockinit, spinlockmgr — kernel lock functions

# DESCRIPTION

These interfaces have been obsoleted and removed from the system.

Please see the condvar(9), mutex(9), and rwlock(9) manual pages for information on kernel synchronisation primitives.

# SEE ALSO

condvar(9), mutex(9), rwlock(9)

# HISTORY

The kernel locking API first appeared in 4.4BSD-lite2, and was replaced in NetBSD 5.0.

January 30, 2008 | NetBSD 7.1