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29.Dd July 9, 2001
30.Dt BUF_UNLOCK 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm BUF_UNLOCK
34.Nd "unlocks a locked buffer"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/systm.h
38.In sys/uio.h
39.In sys/bio.h
40.In sys/buf.h
41.Ft void
42.Fn BUF_UNLOCK "struct buf *bp"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn BUF_UNLOCK
46function unlocks a buffer that was previously locked with
47.Fn BUF_LOCK
48or
49.Fn BUF_TIMELOCK .
50.Pp
51Its argument is:
52.Bl -tag -width ".Fa bp"
53.It Fa bp
54The buffer to unlock.
55The buffer must already be locked.
56.El
57.Sh SEE ALSO
58.Xr buf 9 ,
59.Xr BUF_LOCK 9 ,
60.Xr BUF_TIMELOCK 9 ,
61.Xr lockmgr 9
62.Sh AUTHORS
63This manual page was written by
64.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
65