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RTL Routines, PPL$, PPL$RELEASE_SPIN_LOCK
*Conan The Librarian
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The Release Spin Lock routine relinquishes the spin lock by
clearing the bit representing the lock. The lock must have been
created by PPL$CREATE_SPIN_LOCK.
Format
PPL$RELEASE_SPIN_LOCK lock-id
lock-id
OpenVMS usage identifier
type longword (unsigned)
access read only
mechanism by reference
Identifier of the specified lock. The lock-id argument is the
address of an unsigned longword containing the lock identifier.
Lock-id is returned by PPL$CREATE_SPIN_LOCK.