BUF_TIMELOCK — locks a buffer

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

Debian                                            July 9, 2001                                   BUF_TIMELOCK(9)

       The  BUF_TIMELOCK()  function locks the given buffer, and limits the amount of time it will sleep to timo
       and OR's catch into the sleep's priority.  wmesg is the wmesg used in the sleep.

       Its arguments are:

       bp        The buffer to lock.

       locktype  Flags controlling the type of lock.  See lockmgr(9) for details.

       wmesg     The wmesg used in any sleeps while acquiring the lock.

       catch     Priority OR'd into the sleep's priority.

       timo      The timeout for any sleeps encountered during the lock.

       BUF_TIMELOCK — locks a buffer

       A value of 0 is returned on success.  See lockmgr(9) for details on non-zero return values.

buf(9), BUF_LOCK(9), BUF_UNLOCK(9), lockmgr(9)

#include<sys/param.h>#include<sys/systm.h>#include<sys/uio.h>#include<sys/bio.h>#include<sys/buf.h>intBUF_TIMELOCK(structbuf*bp, intlocktype, char*wmesg, intcatch, inttimo);