pthread_cond_init(3)

pthread_cond_init3

Create a condition variable

Usage

#include <pthread.h>

int

pthread_cond_init(pthread_cond_t *cond, const pthread_condattr_t *attr);

Overview

The pthread_cond_init() function creates a new condition variable, with attributes specified with attr. If attr is NULL the default attributes are used.

Return values

If successful, the pthread_cond_init() function will return zero and put the new condition variable id into cond, otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error.

Errors

The pthread_cond_init() function will fail if:

[EINVAL]

The value specified by attr is invalid.

[ENOMEM]

The process cannot allocate enough memory to create another condition variable.

[EAGAIN]

The system temporarily lacks the resources to create another condition variable.

Releases

149 releases since Mac OS X 10.2; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10.2–10.4.11
  2. 10.5–10.11.6
  3. 10.12–26.5

Standards

The pthread_cond_init() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (“POSIX.1”).

From libpthread 539.100.4 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.