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authorJulian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>1996-01-22 00:02:33 +0000
committerJulian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>1996-01-22 00:02:33 +0000
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Reviewed by: julian and (hsu?)
Submitted by: John Birrel(L?) changes for threadsafe operations
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=13545
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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/listen.2 b/lib/libc/sys/listen.2
index eaa9522d5ee5..6d2a64f14522 100644
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+++ b/lib/libc/sys/listen.2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" From: @(#)listen.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: listen.2,v 1.3 1995/11/03 18:34:38 wollman Exp $
.\"
.Dd November 3, 1995
.Dt LISTEN 2
@@ -82,6 +82,28 @@ or less than zero is specified,
.Fa backlog
is silently forced to
.Li kern.somaxconn .
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
+.Pp
+In the non-threaded library
+.Fn listen
+is implemented as the
+.Va listen
+syscall.
+.Pp
+In the threaded library, the
+.Va listen
+syscall is assembled to
+.Fn _thread_sys_listen
+and
+.Fn listen
+is implemented as a function which locks
+.Va s
+for read and write, then calls
+.Fn _thread_sys_listen .
+Before returning,
+.Fn listen
+unlocks
+.Va s .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates success; -1 indicates an error.
.Sh ERRORS