1.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JOHN BIRRELL AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.Dd August 17, 2018 29.Dt PTHREAD_COND_INIT 3 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm pthread_cond_init 33.Nd create a condition variable 34.Sh LIBRARY 35.Lb libpthread 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.In pthread.h 38.Ft int 39.Fn pthread_cond_init "pthread_cond_t *restrict cond" "const pthread_condattr_t *restrict attr" 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Fn pthread_cond_init 43function creates a new condition variable, with attributes specified with 44.Fa attr . 45If 46.Fa attr 47is NULL the default attributes are used. 48.Sh RETURN VALUES 49If successful, the 50.Fn pthread_cond_init 51function will return zero and put the new condition variable id into 52.Fa cond , 53otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error. 54.Sh ERRORS 55The 56.Fn pthread_cond_init 57function will fail if: 58.Bl -tag -width Er 59.It Bq Er EINVAL 60The value specified by 61.Fa attr 62is invalid. 63.It Bq Er ENOMEM 64The process cannot allocate enough memory to create another condition 65variable. 66.It Bq Er EAGAIN 67The system temporarily lacks the resources to create another condition 68variable. 69.El 70.Sh SEE ALSO 71.Xr pthread_cond_broadcast 3 , 72.Xr pthread_cond_destroy 3 , 73.Xr pthread_cond_signal 3 , 74.Xr pthread_cond_timedwait 3 , 75.Xr pthread_cond_wait 3 , 76.Xr pthread_condattr 3 77.Sh STANDARDS 78The 79.Fn pthread_cond_init 80function conforms to 81.St -p1003.1-96 . 82