LK_SHARED/LK_DOWNGRADE adjustments to lock.9 manual page
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 15 18:32:11 UTC 2012
To people knowing the code,
do the following documentation changes look correct?
--- a/share/man/man9/lock.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/lock.9
@@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ Flags indicating what action is to be taken.
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv LK_CANRECURSE"
.It Dv LK_SHARED
Acquire a shared lock.
-If an exclusive lock is currently held, it will be downgraded.
+If an exclusive lock is currently held,
+.Dv EDEADLK
+will be returned.
.It Dv LK_EXCLUSIVE
Acquire an exclusive lock.
If an exclusive lock is already held, and
@@ -158,7 +160,8 @@ is not set, the system will
.It Dv LK_DOWNGRADE
Downgrade exclusive lock to a shared lock.
Downgrading a shared lock is not permitted.
-If an exclusive lock has been recursed, all references will be downgraded.
+If an exclusive lock has been recursed, the system will
+.Xr panic 9 .
.It Dv LK_UPGRADE
Upgrade a shared lock to an exclusive lock.
If this call fails, the shared lock is lost.
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Andriy Gapon
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