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.\" Copyright (C) 1998-2003, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy.  All Rights Reserved.
.\" Portions Copyright (C) 2003, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
.TH sasl_set_mutex 3SASL "22 Oct 2003" "SunOS 5.11" "Simple Authentication Security Layer Library Functions"
.SH NAME
sasl_set_mutex \- set the mutex lock functions used by the SASL library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR ... ] \fIfile\fR ... \fB-lsasl\fR   [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]
#include <sasl/sasl.h>

\fBvoid\fR \fBsasl_set_mutex\fR(\fBsasl_mutex_alloc_t *\fR\fIa\fR, \fBsasl_mutex_lock_t *\fR\fIl\fR,
     \fBsasl_mutex_unlock_t *\fR\fIu\fR, \fBsasl_mutex_free_t *\fR\fIf\fR);
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
Use the \fBsasl_set_mutex()\fR interface to set the mutex lock routines that the SASL library and plug-ins will use.
.SH PARAMETERS
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fIa\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
.rt  
A pointer to the mutex lock allocation function
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fIf\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
.rt  
A pointer to the mutex free or destroy function
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fIl\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
.rt  
A pointer to the mutex lock function
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fIu\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
.rt  
A pointer to the mutex unlock function
.RE

.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
\fBsasl_set_mutex()\fR has no return values.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Availabilitysystem/library/security/libsasl
_
Interface StabilityObsolete
_
MT-LevelUnsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBattributes\fR(5)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
While most of \fBlibsasl\fR is MT-Safe, \fBsasl_set_*\fR modifies the global state and should be considered Unsafe.