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Attempt to acquire a lock on this object. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value if this object is already locked by another thread, or if an error occurs. Succeed immediately if this thread already holds the lock.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_recursivemutex.h>`

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int
tryLock();
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