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Glossary
Glossary
- action
In DTrace, the term action refers to the action statements taken when a probe fires, which are defined in an action clause. See clause.
- adaptive mutex
A mutex (mutual exclusion) lock type. When requested yet held by another thread, it will either spin if that other thread is currently executing on another CPU or block if it isn’t.
