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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _THREAD_PRIVATE_H_
+#define _THREAD_PRIVATE_H_
+
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+/* Note that these aren't compatible with the usual OpenBSD ones which lazy-initialize! */
+#define _MUTEX_LOCK(l) pthread_mutex_lock((pthread_mutex_t*) l)
+#define _MUTEX_UNLOCK(l) pthread_mutex_unlock((pthread_mutex_t*) l)
+
+#endif /* _THREAD_PRIVATE_H_ */