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Description

   This routine causes a thread to wait for the specified condition
   variable to be signaled or broadcast. Each condition corresponds
   to one or more Boolean relations, called a predicate, based on
   shared data. The calling thread waits for the data to reach a
   particular state for the predicate to become true. However, the
   return from this routine does not imply anything about the value
   of the predicate and it should be reevaluated upon return.

   Call this routine after you have locked the mutex specified in
   mutex. The results of this routine are unpredictable if this
   routine is called without first locking the mutex.

   This routine atomically releases the mutex and causes the calling
   thread to wait on the condition. When the thread regains control
   after calling pthread_cond_wait(), the mutex is locked and the
   thread is the owner. This is true regardless of why the wait
   ended. If general cancelability is enabled, the thread reacquires
   the mutex (blocking for it if necessary) before the cleanup
   handlers are run (or before the exception is raised).

   A thread that changes the state of storage protected by the
   mutex in such a way that a predicate associated with a condition
   variable might now be true, must call either pthread_cond_
   signal() or pthread_cond_broadcast()  for that condition
   variable. If neither call is made, any thread waiting on the
   condition variable continues to wait.

   This routine might (with low probability) return when the
   condition variable has not been signaled or broadcast. When
   this occurs, the mutex is reacquired before the routine returns.
   To handle this type of situation, enclose each call to this
   routine in a loop that checks the predicate. The loop provides
   documentation of your intent and protects against these spurious
   wakeups, while also allowing correct behavior even if another
   thread consumes the desired state before the awakened thread
   runs.

   It is illegal for threads to wait on the same condition variable
   by specifying different mutexes.

   The only routines that are supported for use with asynchronous
   cancelability enabled are those that disable asynchronous
   cancelability.