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diff --git a/share/man/man3/pthread_mutexattr.3 b/share/man/man3/pthread_mutexattr.3 index 8e457b87dc8f..30537b9a9f86 100644 --- a/share/man/man3/pthread_mutexattr.3 +++ b/share/man/man3/pthread_mutexattr.3 @@ -132,6 +132,26 @@ all threads waiting on any mutex owned by this thread. .El .Pp The +.Fn pthread_mutexattr_setpshared +function sets the process-shared attribute of +.Fa attr +to the value specified in +.Fa pshared . +The argument +.Fa pshared +may have one of the following values: +.Bl -tag -width ".Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE" +.It Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE +The mutex may only be used by threads in the same process as the one +that created the object. +.It Dv PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED +The mutex may be used by +threads in processes other than the one that created the object, +assuming other processes share access to the memory where the mutex +was allocated. +.El +.Pp +The .Fn pthread_mutexattr_setrobust function specifies robustness attribute of the mutex. Possible values for the |