0MQ Api

Name

zmutex - working with mutexes (deprecated)

Synopsis

//  Create a new mutex container
CZMQ_EXPORT zmutex_t *
    zmutex_new (void);

//  Destroy a mutex container
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zmutex_destroy (zmutex_t **self_p);

//  Lock mutex
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zmutex_lock (zmutex_t *self);

//  Unlock mutex
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zmutex_unlock (zmutex_t *self);

//  Try to lock mutex
CZMQ_EXPORT int
    zmutex_try_lock (zmutex_t *self);

//  Self test of this class
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zmutex_test (bool verbose);

Description

The zmutex class provides a portable wrapper for mutexes. Please do not use this class to do multi-threading. It is for the rare case where you absolutely need thread-safe global state. This should happen in system code only. DO NOT USE THIS TO SHARE SOCKETS BETWEEN THREADS, OR DARK THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR CODE.

Please add @discuss section in ../src/zmutex.c.

Example

From zmutex_test method

zmutex_t *mutex = zmutex_new ();
assert (mutex);
zmutex_lock (mutex);
zmutex_unlock (mutex); zmutex_destroy (&mutex);

Authors

The czmq manual was written by the authors in the AUTHORS file.

Resources

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Copyright

Copyright (c) 1991-2012 iMatix Corporation — http://www.imatix.com Copyright other contributors as noted in the AUTHORS file. This file is part of CZMQ, the high-level C binding for ØMQ: http://czmq.zeromq.org This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. LICENSE included with the czmq distribution.