Hello Yubin, [...] > +.B PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST > +can be set on a mutex attribute object so that when the owner of the mutex > +dies or when the process containing such a locked mutex performs > +.IR execve (2) > +, any future attempts to call > +.IR pthread_mutex_lock (3) > +on this mutex will suceed and return > +.B EOWNERDEAD > +to indicate that the original owner no longer exists and the mutex is left in > +an inconsistent state. How did you verify the point regarding execve(2)? I don't see this detailed mentioned in the standards or in the glibc source. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html