Re: question on pthreads

From: Mark Hounschell
Date: Mon Aug 21 2006 - 06:42:55 EST


Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 21:32 +0000, Luka Marinko wrote:
>> You can find nice manual here, and overview
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html
>>
>
> Unfortunately the NPTL documentation is FAR from complete - there are no
> man pages at all, and some featured are completely undocumented. For
> example process-shared mutexes are supported, but the only way you'd
> know is to look at the source. The only docs I could find on how to use
> them were old Solaris man pages.
>
> Lee
>
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glibc 2.4.31 has a man page for it.

PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_GETPSHARED(P) POSIX
Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_GETPSHARED(P)



NAME
pthread_mutexattr_getpshared, pthread_mutexattr_setpshared - get and set
the process-shared attribute

SYNOPSIS
#include <pthread.h>

int pthread_mutexattr_getpshared(const pthread_mutexattr_t *
restrict attr, int *restrict pshared);
int pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(pthread_mutexattr_t *attr,
int pshared);

Mark
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