Re: slimp()

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jared Yanovich wrote:

> > Hi, I've been reading some code and seen the use of splimp(), not knowing 
> > quite what this did I ran to the man pages and found spl (9) though it 
> > does not appear on this page. Some searches on marc found that it was a 
> > priority just above splvm, but noone detailed quite what it did. I was 
> > hoping someone could clarify quite what it did. 
> 
> Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD says splimp() can be used to
> "[block] all network interface input handling."  A quick grep through

yeah, it's kinda like splvm and splnet together.  the specifics of 
precisely when to use each are a bit of a mystery i believe.


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