Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:57:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: eka@werty.wasantara.net.id (Eka Kelana) Subject: Re: help me... Message-ID: <199610041957.VAA04797@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610041807.BAA01316@werty.wasantara.net.id> from Eka Kelana at "Oct 5, 96 01:07:53 am"
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As Eka Kelana wrote: > I want to know what these 2 macros (or function, I don't know) do when > they are called within a program: splx() (and the variants like spl0, > splhigh, splimp, etc) and uniqtime(...). > Is there anybody here who can help me? They `Set the [interrupt] Priority Level'. Get a good book about Unix kernels, e.g. ``The 4.4BSD Operating System. Design and Implementation.'' for an explanation about spl's. Or wait until i will have transformed Bruce Evans' formal description of them into the man page spl(9). However, while the book is already available right now, i don't make any promises for when the man page will be ready. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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