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Release the lock on this object that was previously acquired through a call to `lock`, enabling another thread to acquire the lock. The behavior is undefined unless the calling thread holds the lock on this object.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_bsllockimpl_pthread.h>`

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void
unlock();
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