1.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Alex Nash 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.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd March 22, 1999 28.Dt PTHREAD_RWLOCKATTR_GETPSHARED 3 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared 32.Nd get the process shared attribute 33.Sh LIBRARY 34.Lb libpthread 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.In pthread.h 37.Ft int 38.Fn pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared "const pthread_rwlockattr_t *attr" "int *pshared" 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Fn pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared 42function is used to get the process shared setting of a read/write 43lock attribute object. 44The setting is returned via 45.Fa pshared , 46and may be one of two values: 47.Bl -tag -width PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE 48.It Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED 49Any thread of any process that has access to the memory where the 50read/write lock resides can manipulate the lock. 51.It Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE 52Only threads created within the same process as the thread that 53initialized the read/write lock can manipulate the lock. 54This is 55the default value. 56.El 57.Sh RETURN VALUES 58If successful, the 59.Fn pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared 60function will return zero. 61Otherwise an error number will be returned 62to indicate the error. 63.Sh ERRORS 64The 65.Fn pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared 66function may fail if: 67.Bl -tag -width Er 68.It Bq Er EINVAL 69The value specified by 70.Fa attr 71is invalid. 72.El 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr pthread_rwlock_init 3 , 75.Xr pthread_rwlockattr_init 3 , 76.Xr pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared 3 77.Sh STANDARDS 78The 79.Fn pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared 80function is expected to conform to 81.St -susv2 . 82.Sh HISTORY 83The 84.Fn pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared 85function first appeared in 86.Fx 3.0 . 87