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Introduction
============

The barrier manager provides a unique synchronization capability which can be
used to have a set of tasks block and be unblocked as a set.  The directives
provided by the barrier manager are:

- :ref:`rtems_barrier_create`

- :ref:`rtems_barrier_ident`

- :ref:`rtems_barrier_delete`

- :ref:`rtems_barrier_wait`

- :ref:`rtems_barrier_release`