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Re: Conflicting mutex(9) man page ?

Subject: Re: Conflicting mutex(9) man page ?
From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:23:41 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.netbsd.tech.kern

Paul Goyette <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The conflict:
> 
> If mutex_exit() requires that "the mutex must have been previously 
> acquired by the caller", how can mutex_spin_exit() succeed when 
> "releasing an unheld spin mutex"?

Fixed in 1.17 revision.

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Mindaugas
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