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<h1>Thread Mutex Routines</h1> </div>
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<p>platform-optimal lock behavior </p>
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<p>enable nested (recursive) locks </p>
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<p>disable nested locks </p>
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<p>Opaque thread-local mutex structure </p>
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<p>Create and initialize a mutex that can be used to synchronize threads. </p>
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APR_THREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT platform-optimal lock behavior.
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<p>Destroy the mutex and free the memory associated with the lock. </p>
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<p>Acquire the lock for the given mutex. If the mutex is already locked, the current thread will be put to sleep until the lock becomes available. </p>
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<p>Get the pool used by this thread_mutex. </p>
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<p>Attempt to acquire the lock for the given mutex. If the mutex has already been acquired, the call returns immediately with APR_EBUSY. Note: it is important that the <a class="el" href="group___a_p_r___s_t_a_t_u_s___i_s.html#gabb92ad7b6ef304132de70e9e5cbaa896">APR_STATUS_IS_EBUSY(s)</a> macro be used to determine if the return value was APR_EBUSY, for portability reasons. </p>
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<p>Release the lock for the given mutex. </p>
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