acquire_console_sem(9)

acquire_console_sem9

Lock the console system for exclusive use.

Usage

void acquire_console_sem(void);

Arguments

void

no arguments

Overview

Acquires a semaphore which guarantees that the caller has exclusive access to the console system and the console_drivers list.

Can sleep, returns nothing.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0

From linux-manual-2.6.32 2.6.32-48squeeze6 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.