NAME

rwmtx_timedwrlock — attempt to acquire a read-write lock with timeout

SYNOPSIS

library “threads”
#include <threadse.h>

int
rwmtx_timedwrlock(rwmtx_t *rw, const struct timespec *ts);

DESCRIPTION

The function rwmtx_timedwrlock() will acquire a timed read-write lock on the given rw. If the lock can not be acquired at this time the function will wait up to time time specified by ts before giving up.

RETURN VALUES

Upon success rwmtx_timedwrlock() will return thrd_success if the lock could not be acquired in time thrd_timeout will be returned. In case of error thrd_error will be returned.

SEE ALSO

rwmtx_init(3) rwmtx_destroy(3) rwmtx_wrlock(3) rwmtx_rdlock(3) rwmtx_trywrlock(3) rwmtx_trywrlock(3) rwmtx_timedrdlock(3) rwmtx_unlock(3)

HISTORY

The rwmtx_timedwrlock() function first appeared in the Adelsbach Enhanced Threading Library.

AUTHORS

Jan Adelsbach <jan@jadelsbach.de>