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authorjoshua stein <jcs@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-11-11 08:28:29 +0000
committerjoshua stein <jcs@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-11-11 08:28:29 +0000
commit56bcca54a270f698c9e3bd6140e6a0c8445e8f1d (patch)
treef5832bea778b1bd95204d085670f8606d1efcfb6 /share/man/man4
parent4b1c80158ca232178dd544bcec45086818e33cac (diff)
no need to lock access for reading
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/nvram.413
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/nvram.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/nvram.4
index c131dc1cfda..e1af6bea010 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/nvram.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/nvram.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: nvram.4,v 1.1 2004/10/03 21:28:34 jcs Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: nvram.4,v 1.2 2004/11/11 08:28:28 jcs Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 2004 Joshua Stein <jcs@openbsd.org>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -42,17 +42,6 @@ This data is provided as a seekable character device,
Checksums of the NVRAM contents are calculated over bytes 2 to 31 and stored
in byte 32.
A valid checksum is required for the driver to initialize.
-.Pp
-Only one process may have this device open at any given time;
-.Xr open 2
-and
-.Xr close 2
-are used to lock and relinquish it.
-An attempt to
-.Fn open
-when another process has the device locked will return \-1 with an
-.Er EBUSY
-error indication.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/nvram
.It Pa /dev/nvram