BUF_ISLOCKED(9)

BUF_ISLOCKED9

Returns the state of the lock linked to the buffer

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/systm.h>

#include <sys/uio.h>

#include <sys/bio.h>

#include <sys/buf.h>

int

BUF_ISLOCKED(struct buf *bp);

Overview

The BUF_ISLOCKED() function returns the status of the lock linked to the buffer in relation to curthread.

It can return:

LK_EXCLUSIVE

An exclusive lock is held by curthread.

LK_EXCLOTHER

An exclusive lock is held by someone other than curthread.

LK_SHARED

A shared lock is held.

0

The lock is not held by anyone.

Releases

39 releases since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE; the text changed 26 times.

  1. 8.0
  2. 8.1
  3. 8.2
  4. 8.3
  5. 8.4
  6. 9.0
  7. 9.1
  8. 9.2
  9. 9.3
  10. 10.0
  11. 10.1
  12. 10.2
  13. 10.3
  14. 10.4
  15. 11.0
  16. 11.1
  17. 11.2
  18. 11.3
  19. 11.4
  20. 12.0
  21. 12.1
  22. 12.2
  23. 12.3
  24. 12.4
  25. 13.0–13.2
  26. 13.3–15.1
  27. 16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Attilio Rao ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.