<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DB_ENV->mutex_alloc()</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="apiReference.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Berkeley DB C API Reference" /> <link rel="up" href="mutex.html" title="Chapter 9. Mutex Methods" /> <link rel="prev" href="mutex.html" title="Chapter 9. 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The <a class="xref" href="envfailchk.html" title="DB_ENV->failchk()">DB_ENV->failchk()</a> method will release mutexes held by any process which has exited. </p> </li> <li> <p><a id="alloc_DB_MUTEX_SELF_BLOCK"></a> <code class="literal">DB_MUTEX_SELF_BLOCK</code> </p> <p> The mutex must be self-blocking. That is, if a thread of control locks the mutex and then attempts to lock the mutex again, the thread of control will block until another thread of control releases the original lock on the mutex, allowing the original thread of control to lock the mutex the second time. Attempting to re-acquire a mutex for which the <code class="literal">DB_MUTEX_SELF_BLOCK</code> flag was not specified will result in undefined behavior. </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1693224"></a>mutexp</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>mutexp</strong></span> parameter references memory into which the mutex reference is copied. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1693374"></a>Errors</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <code class="methodname">DB_ENV->mutex_alloc()</code> <span> <span> method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors: </span> </span> </p> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1693370"></a>EINVAL</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> An invalid flag value or parameter was specified. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1693560"></a>Class</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5. 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