Subj : Re: redhat linux standard C library does not have pthread_mutex_trylock ???
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Paul Pluzhnikov
Date : Tue Feb 08 2005 07:40 pm

"Joe Seigh" <jseigh_01@xemaps.com> writes:

> It's only there
> so they could make some library calls thread-safe by wrapping the
> function with a lock/unlock pair.

That was my guess as well.

> You can't dummy up all of it.

Why not?

> What do you think pthread_cond_wait is supposed to
> do in that case?

Return EINVAL immediately?

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