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| 26.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/gen/dllockinit.3 131504 2004-07-02 23:52:20Z ru $ |
| 27.\" 28.Dd July 5, 2000 29.Os 30.Dt DLLOCKINIT 3 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm dllockinit 33.Nd register thread locking methods with the dynamic linker 34.Sh LIBRARY 35.Lb libc 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.In dlfcn.h 38.Ft void 39.Fn dllockinit "void *context" "void *(*lock_create)(void *context)" "void (*rlock_acquire)(void *lock)" "void (*wlock_acquire)(void *lock)" "void (*lock_release)(void *lock)" "void (*lock_destroy)(void *lock)" "void (*context_destroy)(void *context)" 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41.Bf Sy 42Due to enhancements in the dynamic linker, this interface is no longer |
| 43needed. 44It is deprecated and will be removed from future releases. |
| 45In current releases it still exists, but only as a stub which does nothing. 46.Ef 47.Pp 48Threads packages can call 49.Fn dllockinit 50at initialization time to register locking functions for the dynamic |
| 51linker to use. 52This enables the dynamic linker to prevent multiple |
| 53threads from entering its critical sections simultaneously. 54.Pp 55The 56.Fa context |
| 57argument specifies an opaque context for creating locks. 58The |
| 59dynamic linker will pass it to the 60.Fa lock_create |
| 61function when creating the locks it needs. 62When the dynamic linker |
| 63is permanently finished using the locking functions (e.g., if the 64program makes a subsequent call to 65.Fn dllockinit 66to register new locking functions) it will call 67.Fa context_destroy 68to destroy the context. 69.Pp 70The 71.Fa lock_create |
| 72argument specifies a function for creating a read/write lock. 73It |
| 74must return a pointer to the new lock. 75.Pp 76The 77.Fa rlock_acquire 78and 79.Fa wlock_acquire 80arguments specify functions which lock a lock for reading or |
| 81writing, respectively. 82The |
| 83.Fa lock_release |
| 84argument specifies a function which unlocks a lock. 85Each of these |
| 86functions is passed a pointer to the lock. 87.Pp 88The 89.Fa lock_destroy |
| 90argument specifies a function to destroy a lock. 91It may be |
| 92.Dv NULL |
| 93if locks do not need to be destroyed. 94The |
| 95.Fa context_destroy |
| 96argument specifies a function to destroy the context. 97It may be |
| 98.Dv NULL 99if the context does not need to be destroyed. 100.Pp 101Until 102.Fn dllockinit 103is called, the dynamic linker protects its critical sections using 104a default locking mechanism which works by blocking the 105.Dv SIGVTALRM , 106.Dv SIGPROF , 107and 108.Dv SIGALRM |
| 109signals. 110This is sufficient for many application level threads |
| 111packages, which typically use one of these signals to implement |
| 112preemption. 113An application which has registered its own locking |
| 114methods with 115.Fn dllockinit 116can restore the default locking by calling 117.Fn dllockinit 118with all arguments 119.Dv NULL . 120.Sh SEE ALSO 121.Xr rtld 1 , 122.Xr signal 3 123.Sh HISTORY 124The 125.Fn dllockinit 126function first appeared in 127.Fx 4.0 . |