C: How do you declare a recursive mutex with POSIX threads?

Question

I am a bit confused on how to declare a recursive mutex using pthread. What I try to do is have only one thread at a time be able to run a piece of code(including functions)

Answer 1

On Linux (but this is non portable to other systems), if the mutex is a global or static variable, you could initialize it like

static pthread_mutex_t recmutex = PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP;

(and by the way, the example is from pthread_mutex_init(3) man pages!)