Re: mutex set kind funtionality

[Duncan Palmer]

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> 
> Hello,
> 
>    I'm a Linux developer and right now I'm porting an application from SCO
> UnixWare 7.1 to RH Linux.
> The target machine is RH 7.1 with kernel version 2.4.2-2 and glibc version
> 2.2.2-10. My application uses
> recursive mutexes. So, I need the pthread API
> pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np() for setting the attribute
> *Recursive*. I have learned that this API is available in glibc version
> 2.1.3-15 which is used by RH 6.2.
> 
>    My query is, is this API available for glibc version 2.2.2-10 too. If it
> is not, is there any equivalent API
> or alias which I can use in my application?

The functionality you're looking for is there in glibc2.2.2 - you will
have to define _GNU_SOURCE to get it. 'info libc' will give you the
details... 



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