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Subject: Re: checking lock ownership
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Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:46:14PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > Is there any way, either in POSIX or in FreeBSD, to check if a given
> > pthread_mutex_t is owned by the current thread?
> One way is to try unlock it with pthread_mutex_unlock().
> If that fails, and errno =3D=3D EPERM, then the current thread
> doesn't own the mutex.

I can't believe you even consider that as an option...

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