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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,fj.os.bsd.netbsd,fr.comp.os.bsd Subject: Re: splx question Date: 13 Oct 1996 10:50:35 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <53qhhr$1ip@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <53mkjk$9mm@netnews.upenn.edu> <53nlfu$3c5@verdi.nethelp.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1144 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29129 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1403 fr.comp.os.bsd:27 sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) wrote: > | Could anyone, please, tell me where the code for splx() and splimp() > | is in the bsd source tree? > > In FreeBSD it's in sys/i386/include/spl.h. Or in FreeBSD-current, it's even ``RTFM spl(9)''. ;-) I finally got around to commit a man page for the spl functions. Besides, the nature of the interrupt priority `levels' is explained in any Unix kernel book. This is recommended reading for anybody who tries to hack kernels. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j