.\" 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. .\" .Dd August 17, 2018 .Dt PTHREAD_RWLOCK_TIMEDWRLOCK 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock .Nd "acquire a read-write lock for writing or give up after a specified period" .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libpthread .Sh SYNOPSIS .In pthread.h .Ft int .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock "pthread_rwlock_t *restrict rwlock" "const struct timespec *restrict abs_timeout" .Sh DESCRIPTION This function acquires a write lock on the read-write lock .Fa rwlock . However, if the lock cannot be acquired without waiting for another thread to unlock the lock, this wait shall be terminated when .Fa abs_timeout expires. .Pp If the thread should be interrupted by a signal, the .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock function will be automatically restarted after the thread returns from the signal handler. .Pp The calling thread may deadlock if at the time the call is made it holds .Fa rwlock . The results are undefined if this function is called with an uninitialized read-write lock. .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES To prevent writer starvation, writers are favored over readers. .Sh RETURN VALUES If successful, the .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock function will return zero. Otherwise, an error number will be returned to indicate the error. .Pp This function shall not return an error code of .Er EINTR . .Sh ERRORS The .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock function shall fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ETIMEDOUT The lock could not be acquired before the specified timeout expired. .El .Pp The .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock function may fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EDEADLK The calling thread already holds .Fa rwlock . .It Bq Er EINVAL The value specified by .Fa rwlock does not refer to an initialized read-write lock object, or the .Fa abs_timeout nanosecond value is less than zero or greater than or equal to 1 billion. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pthread_rwlock_init 3 , .Xr pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock 3 , .Xr pthread_rwlock_unlock 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock function is expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-96 . .Sh HISTORY The .Fn pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock function first appeared in .Fx 5.2 .