pthread_condattr_init(3T)

Use pthread_condattr_init(3T) to initialize attributes associated with this object to their default values. Storage for each attribute object is allocated by the threads system during execution. The default value of the pshared attribute when this function is called is PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE, which means that the initialized condition variable can be used within a process.

Prototype:
int	pthread_condattr_init(pthread_condattr_t *cattr);

#include pthread.h
pthread_condattr_t  cattr;
int ret;

/* initialize an attribute to default value */
ret = pthread_condattr_init(&cattr); 

cattr is an opaque data type that contains a system-allocated attribute object. The possible values of cattr's scope are PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE (the default) and PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED.

Before a condition variable attribute can be reused, it must first be reinitialized by pthread_condattr_destroy(3T). The pthread_condattr_init() call returns a pointer to an opaque object. If the object is not destroyed, a memory leak will result.

Return Values

pthread_condattr_init() returns zero after completing successfully. Any other returned value indicates that an error occurred. When either of the following conditions occurs, the function fails and returns the corresponding value.

ENOMEM

There is not enough memory to initialize the thread attributes object.

EINVAL

The value specified by cattr is invalid.