Reader/write locks permit multiple readers or a single writer, but not both, to be in a critical section at one time. These locks are typically used for structures that are searched more frequently than they are modified, or when threads spend substantial time in a critical section. Users interact with reader/writer locks using the Oracle Solaris rwlock(3C) or POSIX pthread_rwlock_init(3C) interfaces.
The probes pertaining to readers/writer locks are in Table 11–21. For each probe, arg0 contains a pointer to the rwlock_t or pthread_rwlock_t structure (these are identical types) that represents the adaptive lock. arg1 contains a boolean value that indicates whether the operation was as a writer.
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