Manual Pages  — BUF_LOCK

BUF_LOCK – locks a buffer

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO AUTHORS

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/systm.h>

#include <sys/uio.h>

#include <sys/bio.h>

#include <sys/buf.h>

int
BUF_LOCK(struct buf *bp, int locktype);

The BUF_LOCK() function locks the given buffer. If the lock is already held this call will block until it can acquire the lock unless LK_NOWAIT is set.

Its arguments are:

bp
	The buffer to lock.
locktype
	Flags controlling the type of lock. See lockmgr(9) for details.

This manual page was written by Chad David <Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca>.