2 <TITLE>plan 9 man section 9</TITLE>
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6 <H2>Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 9 - </H2>
9 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/0intro">0intro</A>
10 - introduction to kernel functions
13 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/allocb">allocb</A>
14 - data block management
15 <DD><TT> allocb, iallocb, freeb, freeblist, BLEN, BALLOC, blocklen, blockalloclen, readblist, concatblock, copyblock, trimblock, packblock, padblock, pullblock, pullupblock, adjustblock, checkb</TT>
17 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/delay">delay</A>
18 - small delays, clock interrupts
19 <DD><TT> delay, microdelay, addclock0link</TT>
21 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/error">error</A>
22 - error handling functions
23 <DD><TT> error, nexterror, poperror, waserror</TT>
25 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/eve">eve</A>
27 <DD><TT> eve, iseve</TT>
29 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/intrenable">intrenable</A>
30 - enable (disable) an interrupt handler
31 <DD><TT> intrenable, intrdisable</TT>
33 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/kproc">kproc</A>
34 - kernel process creation, termination and interruption
35 <DD><TT> kproc, pexit, postnote</TT>
37 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/malloc">malloc</A>
38 - kernel memory allocator
39 <DD><TT> malloc, mallocz, smalloc, realloc, free, msize, secalloc, secfree, setmalloctag, setrealloctag, getmalloctag, getrealloctag</TT>
41 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/panic">panic</A>
42 - abandon hope, all ye who enter here
45 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/qlock">qlock</A>
46 - serial synchronisation
47 <DD><TT> qlock, qunlock, canqlock, rlock, runlock, wlock, wunlock</TT>
49 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/sleep">sleep</A>
50 - process synchronisation
51 <DD><TT> sleep, wakeup, tsleep, return0</TT>
53 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/splhi">splhi</A>
54 - enable and disable interrupts
55 <DD><TT> splhi, spllo, splx, islo</TT>
57 <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/9/xalloc">xalloc</A>
58 - basic memory management
59 <DD><TT> xalloc, xallocz, xspanalloc, xfree, xsummary</TT>