Programming

I see. So, the sole presence in my environment of functions like clock_gettime should suggest to me that the 'Timers option' is actually available indeed and, therefore, something like this:

clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
ts.tv_sec += 1;

it should work as a one second timeout on pthread_mutex_timedlock. But well, this is exactly what did not work for me (timeout in much less than a second) and the 'Timers option' thing started to call my attention.

I will revisit my implementation here and eventually come back with actual test code for more help :-)

many thanks,
Rodrigo

Have a look a post I wrote some time ago relating to porting the WIN32 API WaitForSingleObject to GNU/Linux. I show a complete example of clock_getttime() used with pthread_mutex_timedlock() and discuss why pthread_mutex_timedlock() can sometimes fail due to the use of recursive mutexes.

See Porting WaitForSingleObject to Linux