al_create_mutex(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is the al_create_mutex(3) page from the Library Functions Manual, and it’s the Allegro 5 API — literally all about al_create_mutex.

al_create_mutex - Allegro 5 API. that’s the name, bestie, and it’s giving main character energy. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bestie, here’s the exact spell you cast:

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_MUTEX *al_create_mutex(void)

no cap, copy it exactly. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so al_create_mutex creates the mutex object — a mutual exclusion device, the lil bouncer for your threads. 🚪✨

heads up: the mutex may or may not support “recursive” locking. so like, don’t just assume it does, iykyk. 🙈

it returns the mutex on success, or NULL on error. that’s the whole vibe check. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_create_mutex_recursive(3). — the recursive-locking cousin, go peek 👀

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signed off by the Allegro reference manual — source/version vibes and all — and there’s no date printed on this page, so i’m not inventing one, periodt. 💜