networking code and splx()

[Julian Elischer]

John Hay wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:40:51AM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>> John, good day.
>>
>> Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:31:50AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>> splx() and friends have been no-ops since FreeBSD 5.x was branched. 
>>>> Synchronization is now done using other mechanisms such as mutexes and 
>>>> spin locks. See the new man page locking(9) in -CURRENT.
>>> It does not seem to get installed:
>> The locking.9 is not the part of the current build as the comment
>> of the initial commit of that file says.
> 
> But if we start to refer people to it, surely it is time to install it?
> It is like the Biblical example of lighting a candle and then putting
> a bucket over it... Pretty much pointless.

since no locking gurus have given it a "blessing of correctness" yet
I have not put it into the build as it may be wildly inaccurate. As soon as
I have been told that it is correct I'll attach it.. It's only been there
for a few days..

> 
>>> Doing a grep for locking in /usr/src/share/man/man9/Makefile produce
>>> nothing.
>> But if you're running -CURRENT, then you can view the page from
>> the sources (assuming that you have the system sources in /usr/src/):
>> $ groff -Tascii -mandoc /usr/src/share/man/man9/locking.9 | less
>>
>> Our you can download the locking.9 from
>>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man9/locking.9
> 
> Yes, but you must know what you are looking for. The nice unix tools,
> man -k and apropos, is not your friend anymore.
> 
> John