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52 .Dt PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INIT 3
55 .Nm pthread_rwlock_init
56 .Nd initialize a read/write lock
62 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init "pthread_rwlock_t * restrict lock" "const pthread_rwlockattr_t * restrict attr"
65 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init
66 function is used to initialize a read/write lock, with attributes
71 is NULL, the default read/write lock attributes are used.
73 The results of calling
74 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init
75 with an already initialized lock are undefined.
78 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init
79 function will return zero.
80 Otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error.
83 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init
84 function shall fail if:
87 The system lacks the resources to initialize another read-write lock.
89 Insufficient memory exists to initialize the read-write lock.
93 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init
97 The system has detected an attempt to re-initialize the object
100 a previously initialized but not yet destroyed read/write lock.
102 The value specified by
107 .Xr pthread_rwlock_destroy 3 ,
108 .Xr pthread_rwlock_rdlock 3 ,
109 .Xr pthread_rwlock_unlock 3 ,
110 .Xr pthread_rwlock_wrlock 3
112 .Fn pthread_rwlock_init
116 The PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED attribute is not supported.