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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:45:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: uthread patch to correct the return code for pthread_rwlock_tryXXlock()
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Brian Dean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The man pages for pthread_rwlock_trywrlock() and
> pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock() say that EBUSY is returned when the calling
> thread is not able to aquire the lock without blocking.  However, the
> actual functions return EWOULDBLOCK.  I believe the man page is
> correct (Solaris and others, at least, return EBUSY).
> 
> Unless there are objections, I plan on committing the attached patch
> to correct the code.

Yes, it should be EBUSY.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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