qprocson(9F)/qprocsoff(9F)

The routines qprocson(9F) and qprocsoff(9F)) respectively enable and disable the put and service procedures of the queue pair. Before calling qprocson(9F), and after calling qprocsoff(9F)), the module's put and service procedures are disabled; messages flow around the module as if it were not present in the Stream.

qprocson(9F) must be called by the first open of a module, but only after allocation and initialization of any module resources on which the put and service procedures depend. The qprocsoff routine must be called by the close routine of the module before deallocating any resources on which the put and service procedures depend.

To avoid deadlocks, modules must not hold private locks across the calls to qprocson(9F) or qprocsoff(9F).