Spl (Unix)
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spl-unix-322-9104571
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Spl (Unix)
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spl is the name for a collection of Unix kernel routines or macros used to change the interrupt priority level. This was historically needed to synchronize critical sections of kernel code that should not be interrupted. Newer Unix variants which support symmetric multiprocessing now mostly use mutexes for this purpose, which is a more general solution, so multiple processors can execute kernel code at the same time. On older PDP-11 versions of Unix, there were eight of these routines, ranging f
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Unix interrupt priority control commands
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2023-10-05T18:14:22Z
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