.\" 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: src/share/man/man3/pthread_spin_init.3,v 1.3 2007/10/22 10:08:01 ru Exp $ .\" .Dd July 10, 2009 .Dt PTHREAD_SPIN_INIT 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pthread_spin_init , pthread_spin_destroy .Nd "initialize or destroy a spin lock" .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libpthread .Sh SYNOPSIS .In pthread.h .Ft int .Fn pthread_spin_init "pthread_spinlock_t *lock" "int pshared" .Ft int .Fn pthread_spin_destroy "pthread_spinlock_t *lock" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn pthread_spin_init function will initialize .Fa lock to an unlocked state and allocate any resources necessary to begin using it. If .Fa pshared is set to .Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED , any thread, whether belonging to the process in which the spinlock was created or not, that has access to the memory area where .Fa lock resides, can use .Fa lock . If it is set to .Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE , it can only be used by threads within the same process. .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_destroy function will destroy .Fa lock and release any resources that may have been allocated on its behalf. .Sh RETURN VALUES If successful, both .Fn pthread_spin_init and .Fn pthread_spin_destroy will return zero. Otherwise, an error number will be returned to indicate the error. .Pp Neither of these functions will return .Er EINTR . .Sh ERRORS The .Fn pthread_spin_init and .Fn pthread_spin_destroy functions will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBUSY An attempt to initialize or destroy .Fa lock while it is in use. .It Bq Er EINVAL The value specified by .Fa lock is invalid. .El .Pp The .Fn pthread_spin_init function will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EAGAIN Insufficient resources, other than memory, to initialize .Fa lock . .It Bq Er ENOMEM Insufficient memory to initialize .Fa lock . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pthread_spin_lock 3 , .Xr pthread_spin_unlock 3 .Sh BUGS The implementation of .Fn pthread_spin_init does not fully conform to .St -p1003.2 because the .Fa pshared argument is ignored; if any value other than .Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE is specified, it returns .Er EINVAL .