What is the use case for a shared mutex?

We use shared mutex for IPC shared process memory. See AudioTrack/
AudioFlinger for sample code. In the case, the sharing works because
the mutex is in the shared memory and both process have access to it.

On Mar 3, 12:27 am, waterblood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>    Usually we use  pthread_mutexattr_setpshared to share different
> mutex with different process. But I have checked the bionic libc
> implementation. It only support PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE setting.
> Does it mean android does not support mutex shared between different
> processes?
>
> pthread.c in android/bionic/libc/bionic
>
> 772 int pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(pthread_mutexattr_t *attr, int
> pshared)
>  773 {
>  774     if (!attr)
>  775         return EINVAL;
>  776
>  777     return (pshared == PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE) ? 0 : ENOTSUP;
>  778 }
>
> Thanks
> Guoyin Chen
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