If you unlock an already unlocked mutex, is the behavior undefined?

Question

If you unlock an already unlocked mutex, is the behavior unsafe, safe, or undefined?

The purpose of the question is related to the following code, where I don\'t kno

Answer 1

Try it. This is code working correct.

// Mutex is not busy
if(pthread_mutex_trylock(&object->mtx) == 0) {
    if(pthread_mutex_unlock(&object->mtx)!=0) {
        perror("ERRN: pthread_mutex_unlock:");
    }
}
// Mutex is already busy
else {
    if(pthread_mutex_unlock(&object->mtx)!=0) {
        perror("ERRN: pthread_mutex_unlock:");
    }
}

// In this point -- we correctly unlocked mutex.

if(pthread_mutex_destroy(&object->mtx) != 0) {
    perror("ERRN: pthread_mutex_destroy:");
}