BUF_LOCKINIT(9)

✨ BUF_LOCKINIT ✨

okay bestie, welcome to BUF_LOCKINIT(9) — the Kernel Developer's Manual page you didn't know you needed 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

BUF_LOCKINIT — initializes a buffer lock 🔒✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/systm.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <sys/bio.h>
#include <sys/buf.h>

void
BUF_LOCKINIT(struct buf *bp);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the BUF_LOCKINIT() macro initializes a buffer lock. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's giving "set it up before you use it" 💅

its argument is:

• bp — the buffer whose lock it to be initialized. yes bestie, the lock of that buffer. hand it over and it gets initialized, no cap 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• buf(9)
• BUF_LOCK(9)
• BUF_TIMELOCK(9)
• BUF_UNLOCK(9)
• lockinit(9)
• lockmgr(9)

go read them too, they're literally the friend group 👑✨

💜 AUTHORS 💜

this manual page was written by Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> — iconic behavior fr fr 🫡💖

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this lil page comes to you from Debian, dated January 6, 2005 — vintage but still slaying, periodt ✨🦋🌸