How do you declare a recursive mutex with POSIX threads?

The code from Michael Foukarakis is almost good but he initializes the mutex twice which leads to undefined behavior. It should just be:

pthread_mutex_t Mutex;
pthread_mutexattr_t Attr;

pthread_mutexattr_init(&Attr);
pthread_mutexattr_settype(&Attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
pthread_mutex_init(&Mutex, &Attr);

I actually use this code in production, and I know it works correctly on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OSX and FreeBSD.

You also need to add proper linker flag to compile this:

AIX, Linux, FreeBSD:
CPLATFORM += -pthread

mingw32:
LDFLAGS += -lpthread