FreeBSD-5.3/lib/libc/gen/dllockinit.3

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.Dd July 5, 2000
.Os
.Dt DLLOCKINIT 3
.Sh NAME
.Nm dllockinit
.Nd register thread locking methods with the dynamic linker
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In dlfcn.h
.Ft void
.Fn dllockinit "void *context" "void *(*lock_create)(void *context)" "void (*rlock_acquire)(void *lock)" "void (*wlock_acquire)(void *lock)" "void (*lock_release)(void *lock)" "void (*lock_destroy)(void *lock)" "void (*context_destroy)(void *context)"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf Sy
Due to enhancements in the dynamic linker, this interface is no longer
needed.
It is deprecated and will be removed from future releases.
In current releases it still exists, but only as a stub which does nothing.
.Ef
.Pp
Threads packages can call
.Fn dllockinit
at initialization time to register locking functions for the dynamic
linker to use.
This enables the dynamic linker to prevent multiple
threads from entering its critical sections simultaneously.
.Pp
The
.Fa context
argument specifies an opaque context for creating locks.
The
dynamic linker will pass it to the
.Fa lock_create
function when creating the locks it needs.
When the dynamic linker
is permanently finished using the locking functions (e.g., if the
program makes a subsequent call to
.Fn dllockinit
to register new locking functions) it will call
.Fa context_destroy
to destroy the context.
.Pp
The
.Fa lock_create
argument specifies a function for creating a read/write lock.
It
must return a pointer to the new lock.
.Pp
The
.Fa rlock_acquire
and
.Fa wlock_acquire
arguments specify functions which lock a lock for reading or
writing, respectively.
The
.Fa lock_release
argument specifies a function which unlocks a lock.
Each of these
functions is passed a pointer to the lock.
.Pp
The
.Fa lock_destroy
argument specifies a function to destroy a lock.
It may be
.Dv NULL
if locks do not need to be destroyed.
The
.Fa context_destroy
argument specifies a function to destroy the context.
It may be
.Dv NULL
if the context does not need to be destroyed.
.Pp
Until
.Fn dllockinit
is called, the dynamic linker protects its critical sections using
a default locking mechanism which works by blocking the
.Dv SIGVTALRM ,
.Dv SIGPROF ,
and
.Dv SIGALRM
signals.
This is sufficient for many application level threads
packages, which typically use one of these signals to implement
preemption.
An application which has registered its own locking
methods with
.Fn dllockinit
can restore the default locking by calling
.Fn dllockinit
with all arguments
.Dv NULL .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rtld 1 ,
.Xr signal 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn dllockinit
function first appeared in
.Fx 4.0 .