mtx_trylock
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C
Concurrency support (C11)
Concurrency support library
Atomic operations
Mutual exclusion
Condition variables
Thread-local storage
Threads
(until C23)
Atomic flags
Memory ordering
Defined in header
<threads.h>
int mtx_trylock( mtx_t *mutex );
(since C11)
Tries to lock the mutex pointed to by mutex
without blocking. Returns immediately if the mutex is already locked.
Prior calls to mtx_unlock on the same mutex synchronize-with this operation (if this operation succeeds), and all lock/unlock operations on any given mutex form a single total order (similar to the modification order of an atomic)
[edit] Parameters
mutex
-
pointer to the mutex to lock
[edit] Return value
thrd_success if successful, thrd_busy if the mutex has already been locked or due to a spurious failure to acquire an available mutex, thrd_error if an error occurs.
[edit] Defect reports
The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C standards.
DR | Applied to | Behavior as published | Correct behavior |
---|---|---|---|
DR 470 | C11 | mtx_trylock was not allowed to fail spuriously
|
allowed |
[edit] References
- C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):
- 7.26.4.5 The mtx_trylock function (p: 278-279)
- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
- 7.26.4.5 The mtx_trylock function (p: 382)
[edit] See also
C++ documentation for mutex::try_lock
C++ documentation for timed_mutex::try_lock
C++ documentation for recursive_mutex::try_lock
C++ documentation for recursive_timed_mutex::try_lock