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PTHREAD..._DESTROY(3P)  POSIX Programmer's Manual PTHREAD..._DESTROY(3P)

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       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
       Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
       or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME         top

       pthread_mutexattr_destroy, pthread_mutexattr_init — destroy and
       initialize the mutex attributes object

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pthread.h>

       int pthread_mutexattr_destroy(pthread_mutexattr_t *attr);
       int pthread_mutexattr_init(pthread_mutexattr_t *attr);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The pthread_mutexattr_destroy() function shall destroy a mutex
       attributes object; the object becomes, in effect, uninitialized.
       An implementation may cause pthread_mutexattr_destroy() to set
       the object referenced by attr to an invalid value.

       A destroyed attr attributes object can be reinitialized using
       pthread_mutexattr_init(); the results of otherwise referencing
       the object after it has been destroyed are undefined.

       The pthread_mutexattr_init() function shall initialize a mutex
       attributes object attr with the default value for all of the
       attributes defined by the implementation.

       Results are undefined if pthread_mutexattr_init() is called
       specifying an already initialized attr attributes object.

       After a mutex attributes object has been used to initialize one
       or more mutexes, any function affecting the attributes object
       (including destruction) shall not affect any previously
       initialized mutexes.

       The behavior is undefined if the value specified by the attr
       argument to pthread_mutexattr_destroy() does not refer to an
       initialized mutex attributes object.

RETURN VALUE         top

       Upon successful completion, pthread_mutexattr_destroy() and
       pthread_mutexattr_init() shall return zero; otherwise, an error
       number shall be returned to indicate the error.

ERRORS         top

       The pthread_mutexattr_init() function shall fail if:

       ENOMEM Insufficient memory exists to initialize the mutex
              attributes object.

       These functions shall not return an error code of [EINTR].

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       If an implementation detects that the value specified by the attr
       argument to pthread_mutexattr_destroy() does not refer to an
       initialized mutex attributes object, it is recommended that the
       function should fail and report an [EINVAL] error.

       See pthread_attr_destroy(3p) for a general explanation of
       attributes. Attributes objects allow implementations to
       experiment with useful extensions and permit extension of this
       volume of POSIX.1‐2017 without changing the existing functions.
       Thus, they provide for future extensibility of this volume of
       POSIX.1‐2017 and reduce the temptation to standardize prematurely
       on semantics that are not yet widely implemented or understood.

       Examples of possible additional mutex attributes that have been
       discussed are spin_only, limited_spin, no_spin, recursive, and
       metered.  (To explain what the latter attributes might mean:
       recursive mutexes would allow for multiple re-locking by the
       current owner; metered mutexes would transparently keep records
       of queue length, wait time, and so on.) Since there is not yet
       wide agreement on the usefulness of these resulting from shared
       implementation and usage experience, they are not yet specified
       in this volume of POSIX.1‐2017. Mutex attributes objects,
       however, make it possible to test out these concepts for possible
       standardization at a later time.

   Mutex Attributes and Performance
       Care has been taken to ensure that the default values of the
       mutex attributes have been defined such that mutexes initialized
       with the defaults have simple enough semantics so that the
       locking and unlocking can be done with the equivalent of a test-
       and-set instruction (plus possibly a few other basic
       instructions).

       There is at least one implementation method that can be used to
       reduce the cost of testing at lock-time if a mutex has non-
       default attributes. One such method that an implementation can
       employ (and this can be made fully transparent to fully
       conforming POSIX applications) is to secretly pre-lock any
       mutexes that are initialized to non-default attributes. Any later
       attempt to lock such a mutex causes the implementation to branch
       to the ``slow path'' as if the mutex were unavailable; then, on
       the slow path, the implementation can do the ``real work'' to
       lock a non-default mutex. The underlying unlock operation is more
       complicated since the implementation never really wants to
       release the pre-lock on this kind of mutex. This illustrates
       that, depending on the hardware, there may be certain
       optimizations that can be used so that whatever mutex attributes
       are considered ``most frequently used'' can be processed most
       efficiently.

   Process Shared Memory and Synchronization
       The existence of memory mapping functions in this volume of
       POSIX.1‐2017 leads to the possibility that an application may
       allocate the synchronization objects from this section in memory
       that is accessed by multiple processes (and therefore, by threads
       of multiple processes).

       In order to permit such usage, while at the same time keeping the
       usual case (that is, usage within a single process) efficient, a
       process-shared option has been defined.

       If an implementation supports the _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
       option, then the process-shared attribute can be used to indicate
       that mutexes or condition variables may be accessed by threads of
       multiple processes.

       The default setting of PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE has been chosen
       for the process-shared attribute so that the most efficient forms
       of these synchronization objects are created by default.

       Synchronization variables that are initialized with the
       PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE process-shared attribute may only be
       operated on by threads in the process that initialized them.
       Synchronization variables that are initialized with the
       PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED process-shared attribute may be operated
       on by any thread in any process that has access to it. In
       particular, these processes may exist beyond the lifetime of the
       initializing process. For example, the following code implements
       a simple counting semaphore in a mapped file that may be used by
       many processes.

           /* sem.h */
           struct semaphore {
               pthread_mutex_t lock;
               pthread_cond_t nonzero;
               unsigned count;
           };
           typedef struct semaphore semaphore_t;

           semaphore_t *semaphore_create(char *semaphore_name);
           semaphore_t *semaphore_open(char *semaphore_name);
           void semaphore_post(semaphore_t *semap);
           void semaphore_wait(semaphore_t *semap);
           void semaphore_close(semaphore_t *semap);

           /* sem.c */
           #include <sys/types.h>
           #include <sys/stat.h>
           #include <sys/mman.h>
           #include <fcntl.h>
           #include <pthread.h>
           #include "sem.h"

           semaphore_t *
           semaphore_create(char *semaphore_name)
           {
           int fd;
               semaphore_t *semap;
               pthread_mutexattr_t psharedm;
               pthread_condattr_t psharedc;

               fd = open(semaphore_name, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666);
               if (fd < 0)
                   return (NULL);
               (void) ftruncate(fd, sizeof(semaphore_t));
               (void) pthread_mutexattr_init(&psharedm);
               (void) pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(&psharedm,
                   PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED);
               (void) pthread_condattr_init(&psharedc);
               (void) pthread_condattr_setpshared(&psharedc,
                   PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED);
               semap = (semaphore_t *) mmap(NULL, sizeof(semaphore_t),
                       PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
                       fd, 0);
               close (fd);
               (void) pthread_mutex_init(&semap->lock, &psharedm);
               (void) pthread_cond_init(&semap->nonzero, &psharedc);
               semap->count = 0;
               return (semap);
           }

           semaphore_t *
           semaphore_open(char *semaphore_name)
           {
               int fd;
               semaphore_t *semap;

               fd = open(semaphore_name, O_RDWR, 0666);
               if (fd < 0)
                   return (NULL);
               semap = (semaphore_t *) mmap(NULL, sizeof(semaphore_t),
                       PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
                       fd, 0);
               close (fd);
               return (semap);
           }

           void
           semaphore_post(semaphore_t *semap)
           {
               pthread_mutex_lock(&semap->lock);
               if (semap->count == 0)
                   pthread_cond_signal(&semapx->nonzero);
               semap->count++;
               pthread_mutex_unlock(&semap->lock);
           }

           void
           semaphore_wait(semaphore_t *semap)
           {
               pthread_mutex_lock(&semap->lock);
               while (semap->count == 0)
                   pthread_cond_wait(&semap->nonzero, &semap->lock);
               semap->count--;
               pthread_mutex_unlock(&semap->lock);
           }

           void
           semaphore_close(semaphore_t *semap)
           {
               munmap((void *) semap, sizeof(semaphore_t));
           }

       The following code is for three separate processes that create,
       post, and wait on a semaphore in the file /tmp/semaphore.  Once
       the file is created, the post and wait programs increment and
       decrement the counting semaphore (waiting and waking as required)
       even though they did not initialize the semaphore.

           /* create.c */
           #include "pthread.h"
           #include "sem.h"

           int
           main()
           {
               semaphore_t *semap;

               semap = semaphore_create("/tmp/semaphore");
               if (semap == NULL)
                   exit(1);
               semaphore_close(semap);
               return (0);
           }

           /* post */
           #include "pthread.h"
           #include "sem.h"

           int
           main()
           {
               semaphore_t *semap;

               semap = semaphore_open("/tmp/semaphore");
               if (semap == NULL)
                   exit(1);
               semaphore_post(semap);
               semaphore_close(semap);
               return (0);
           }

           /* wait */
           #include "pthread.h"
           #include "sem.h"

           int
           main()
           {
               semaphore_t *semap;

               semap = semaphore_open("/tmp/semaphore");
               if (semap == NULL)
                   exit(1);
               semaphore_wait(semap);
               semaphore_close(semap);
               return (0);
           }

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       pthread_cond_destroy(3p), pthread_create(3p),
       pthread_mutex_destroy(3p)

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, pthread.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
       form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
       Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
       (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any
       discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The
       Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group
       Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be
       obtained online at http:https://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page
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