NetBSD 6.1.5 - man page for transferlockers (netbsd section 9)

LOCK(9) 			  BSD 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.

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