## Function: SB-THREAD:MUTEX-OWNER [![package](https://img.shields.io/badge/Package-SB--THREAD-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../) [![type](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-Function-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../#function) [![github](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-View_the_source-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999&logo=github)](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/code/target-thread.lisp/) > Current owner of the mutex, NIL if the mutex is free. Naturally, > this is racy by design (another thread may acquire the mutex after > this function returns), it is intended for informative purposes. For > testing whether the current thread is holding a mutex see > HOLDING-MUTEX-P. ### Lambda list ```cl (sb-thread:mutex) ```