problem with pthread_mutex_timedlock

Hello,

I want to use this function to lock a resource, but with a timeout

and that is the problem, the function returns immediately after calling, and if the lock was not free, it returns the error code 110, but I have no idea what this error code means, I've found nothing in the man-pages or anywhere else

Can anyone help me?

I'm using 2.6.15 under a special glibc/busybox distribution for an arm9-core, but I have the same effect under Kubuntu 6.06


here is my code:
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struct timespec deltatime;
deltatime.tv_sec = 3;
deltatime.tv_nsec = 0;

int err_code = pthread_mutex_timedlock( &_mutexLogfile, &deltatime );


if (err_code != 0)
{

cout << "Locking returns " << err_code << endl;
THROW_EX("Logfile Mutex locked!");

}

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Thank you in advance!

Hans
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