cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 lock.9

[Maxim Konovalov]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, 16:05-0600, Scott Long wrote:

> Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, 21:41-0000, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> >
> >
> > >maxim       2006-06-20 21:41:14 UTC
> > >
> > >  FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > >  Modified files:
> > >    share/man/man9       lock.9
> > >  Log:
> > >  o Remove LK_REENABLE and LK_NOPAUSE lockinit(9) flags, add LK_NOSHARE.
> >
> >
> > Btw, as I see there are not many consumers of lock.9 infrastructure
> > comparing to mutex.9, sx.9 etc in our tree.  Is it something derecated?
> >
>
> I guess that VFS doesn't count as being important?

As an average user I just want to know what pros and contras for using
lock.9 vs all other locking primitivies.  It is not clear from our man
pages and arch book.  Sorry if I'm asking something completely stupid.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov