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Attempt to acquire a lock on this mutex object. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value if this object is already locked by a different thread. The behavior is undefined if the calling thread already owns the lock on this mutex, and may result in deadlock.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_mutex.h>`

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int
tryLock();
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