Acquiring a Non-blocking Write Lock on a Read-Write Lock

pthread_rwlock_trywrlock(3C) applies a write lock like pthread_rwlock_wrlock(), with the exception that the function fails if any thread currently holds rwlock, for reading or writing.

pthread_rwlock_trywrlock Syntax

#include <pthread.h>

int pthread_rwlock_trywrlock(pthread_rwlock_t  *rwlock);

Results are undefined if pthread_rwlock_trywrlock() is called with an uninitialized read-write lock.

pthread_rwlock_trywrlock Return Values

If successful, pthread_rwlock_trywrlock() returns zero if the lock for writing on the read-write lock object referenced by rwlock is acquired. Otherwise, an error number is returned to indicate the error.

EBUSY

Description:

The read-write lock could not be acquired for writing because the read-write lock is already locked for reading or writing.