Comtrol eCos - Manual (Page 399)

Chapter 18. Device Driver Interface to the Kernel
Level:
Thread
Description:
Destroy the mutex pointed to by the mutex argument. The mutex should be unlocked and there should be no
threads waiting to lock it when this call in made.
cyg_drv_mutex_lock
Function:
cyg_bool cyg_drv_mutex_lock( cyg_drv_mutex *mutex )
Arguments:
mutex - pointer to mutex to lock
Result:
TRUE it the thread has claimed the lock, FALSE otherwise.
Level:
Thread
Description:
Attempt to lock the mutex pointed to by the mutex argument. If the mutex is already locked by another
thread then this thread will wait until that thread is finished. If the result from this function is FALSE then the
thread was broken out of its wait by some other thread. In this case the mutex will not have been locked.
cyg_drv_mutex_trylock
Function:
cyg_bool cyg_drv_mutex_trylock( cyg_drv_mutex *mutex )
Arguments:
mutex - pointer to mutex to lock
Result:
TRUE if the mutex has been locked, FALSE otherwise.
Level:
Thread
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