DosAcquireSpinLock

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Acquire a spinlock for multiprocessor serialization

Syntax

VOID APIENTRY DosAcquireSpinLock (HSPINLOCK Handle)

Parameter

Handle (HSPINLOCK)
Handle to a spin lock

Remarks

DosAcquireSpinLock is passed a handle which was returned by DosCreateSpinLock When control is returned to the requester, the spin lock has been acquired and interrupts are disabled. A call to DosReleaseSpinLock must follow very shortly. Spin locks can be nested.

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