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+.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com>
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+.Dd July 29, 1998
+.Dt PTHREAD_MUTEX_INIT 3
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm pthread_mutex_init
+.Nd create a mutex
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <pthread.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn pthread_mutex_init "pthread_mutex_t *mutex" "const pthread_mutexattr_t *attr"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn pthread_mutex_init
+function creates a new mutex, with attributes specified with
+.Fa attr .
+If
+.Fa attr
+is NULL the default attributes are used.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If successful,
+.Fn pthread_mutex_init
+will return zero and put the new mutex id into
+.Fa mutex ,
+otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn pthread_mutex_init
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The value specified by
+.Fa attr
+is invalid.
+.It Bq Er ENOMEM
+The process cannot allocate enough memory to create another mutex.
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+The temporarily lacks the resources to create another mutex.
+.El
+.Pp
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr pthreads 3 ,
+.Xr pthread_mutex_destroy 3 ,
+.Xr pthread_mutex_lock 3 ,
+.Xr pthread_mutex_unlock 3 ,
+.Xr pthread_mutex_trylock 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+.Fn pthread_mutex_init
+conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1 ANSI/IEEE
+.Pq Dq Tn POSIX
+Std 1003.1 Second Edition 1996-07-12.