.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Michael Telahun Makonnen .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man3/pthread_spin_lock.3 172880 2007-10-22 10:08:01Z ru $ .\" .Dd January 22, 2004 .Dt PTHREAD_SPIN_LOCK 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pthread_spin_lock , pthread_spin_trylock , pthread_spin_unlock .Nd "lock or unlock a spin lock" .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libpthread .Sh SYNOPSIS .In pthread.h .Ft int .Fn pthread_spin_lock "pthread_spinlock_t *lock" .Ft int .Fn pthread_spin_trylock "pthread_spinlock_t *lock" .Ft int .Fn pthread_spin_unlock "pthread_spinlock_t *lock" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn pthread_spin_lock function will acquire .Fa lock if it is not currently owned by another thread. If the lock cannot be acquired immediately, it will spin attempting to acquire the lock (it will not sleep) until it becomes available. .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_trylock function is the same as .Fn pthread_spin_lock except that if it cannot acquire .Fa lock immediately it will return with an error. .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_unlock function will release .Fa lock , which must have been previously locked by a call to .Fn pthread_spin_lock or .Fn pthread_spin_trylock . .Sh RETURN VALUES If successful, all these functions will return zero. Otherwise, an error number will be returned to indicate the error. .Pp None of these functions will return .Er EINTR . .Sh ERRORS The .Fn pthread_spin_lock , .Fn pthread_spin_trylock and .Fn pthread_spin_unlock functions will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The value specified by .Fa lock is invalid or is not initialized. .El .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_lock function may fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EDEADLK The calling thread already owns the lock. .El .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_trylock function will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBUSY Another thread currently holds .Fa lock . .El .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_unlock function may fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EPERM The calling thread does not own .Fa lock . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pthread_spin_destroy 3 , .Xr pthread_spin_init 3 .Sh HISTORY The .Fn pthread_spin_lock , .Fn pthread_spin_trylock and .Fn pthread_spin_unlock functions first appeared in .Lb libkse in .Fx 5.2 , and in .Lb libthr in .Fx 5.3 . .Sh BUGS The implementation of .Fn pthread_spin_lock , .Fn pthread_spin_trylock and .Fn pthread_spin_unlock is expected to conform to .St -p1003.2 .