Subj : pthread_mutex_trylock problem
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : rajendra.stalekar
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 06:02 am

I would like to know if one thread acquires a lock(by using
pthread_mutex_lock) and another thread tries to acquire it it would
sleep on it and once the thread which acquired releases it the first
thread which is sleeping acquires.
When would we use pthread_mutex_trylock() then? What is the use of such
a function.

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