KernAllocMutexLock: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 02:02, 9 March 2017

Initialize a mutexlock. This is basically the semaphore equivalent of a spinlock. Likewise, it is usable to protect critical regions. The difference to a spinlock is that waiting on a mutex will send the thread that processor is executing to sleep. This makes sense - in contrast to a spinlock - for longer critical regions.

Synopsis

APIRET APIENTRY KernAllocMutexLock(KEEMutexLock* ml);

Parameters

ml: Pointer to a mutexlock structure in 32 bit memory.

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+Initialize a mutexlock. This is basically the semaphore equivalent of a spinlock. Likewise, it is usable to protect critical regions. The difference to a spinlock is that waiting on a mutex will send the thread that processor is executing to sleep. This makes sense - in contrast to a spinlock - for longer critical regions.
 ==Synopsis==
 APIRET APIENTRY KernAllocMutexLock(KEEMutexLock* ml);
-==Description==
-Initialize a mutexlock. This is basically the semaphore equivalent of a spinlock. Likewise, it is usable to protect critical regions. The difference to a spinlock is that waiting on a mutex will send the thread that processor is executing to sleep. This makes sense - in contrast to a spinlock - for longer critical regions.
 ==Parameters==
-'''ml''':  Pointer to a mutexlock structure in 32 bit memory.
+;ml:  Pointer to a mutexlock structure in 32 bit memory.
-[[Category:The OS/2 API Project]]
+[[Category:KEE]]