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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: where is a desciption of the kernel routines ?
Date: 6 Dec 1993 17:38:26 +0100
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Hi folks,

is there any description (manual, book, or otherwise) of routines used in the
kernel?

Things like spl...(), timeout(), sleep(), tsleep(), etc ?
A description on how to make sure a portion of code gets executed in one go
(single processor architecture assumed) and not being interrupted ?
A description on how and where not to give away the control over the CPU for
a period of time ?
Things like that ?

Oh, BTW, please no pointers to The Design And Implemantation Of The BSD 4.3
Operating System. I'm asking about 386bsd (or FreeBSD, or NetBSD if I switch
over) and not about 4.3BSD running on a VAX architecture.

Thanks,
	Bernard