VMS Help POSIX Threads, PTHREAD routines, pthread_mutex_trylock  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Attempts to lock the specified mutex. If the mutex is already
    locked, the calling thread does not wait for the mutex to become
    available.

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