Attempt to acquire the lock, retrying up to numRetries times.
Synopsis
Declared in <bsls_spinlock.h>
int
tryLock(int numRetries = 0);Description
Attempt to acquire the lock; optionally specify the numRetries times to attempt again if this object is already locked. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value if the lock was not successfully acquired. The behavior is undefined unless 0 <= numRetries.
Return Value
0 on success; non‐zero if the lock was not acquired
Parameters
Name |
Description |
numRetries |
maximum additional attempts if the lock is held |
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