NAME

bar_wait — wait at thread barrier

SYNOPSIS

library “threads”
#include <threadse.h>

int
bar_wait(bar_t *barrier);

DESCRIPTION

The function bar_wait() will stall stop the current thread and wait until the correct amount of threads are waiting at the given thread barrier, as specified at the initialization of the barrier in bar_init(3).

RETURN VALUES

Upon success bar_wait() will return thrd_success for exactly one thread and thrd_busy for all others. In case of an error thrd_error will be returned.

SEE ALSO

bar_init(3) bar_destroy(3)

HISTORY

The bar_wait() function first appeared in the Adelsbach Enhanced Threading Library. MacOS support was added in version 1.0.1 due to the lack of native MacOS support for thread barriers the implementation manually implements this using mutexes and condition variables.

AUTHORS

Jan Adelsbach <jan@jadelsbach.de>