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From: chrubis@suse.cz
To: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>,
	LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/4] pthread_cond_timedwait/2-4: allow pthread_mutex_trylock return EDEADLK
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:35:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130710163525.GA20440@rei.Home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373467521-2291-1-git-send-email-gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>

Hi!
> POSIX said: (Sure it is unclear)
> The pthread_mutex_lock() function shall fail if:
> 
> [EDEADLK]
>     The mutex type is PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK and the current thread already owns the mutex.
> 
> The pthread_mutex_trylock() function shall fail if:
> 
> [EBUSY]
>     The mutex could not be acquired because it was already locked.
> 
> So we should allow pthread_mutex_trylock return EDEADLK or EBUSY
> when the mutex is already owned.

Looking at the POSIX spec the EDEADLK is specified as possible error
__only__ for pthread_mutex_lock().

So if pthread_mutex_trylock() returned EDEADLK your libc is buggy. Where
have you seen this happen? 

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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