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29 .Dd September 12, 1995
34 .Nd obtain a semaphore id
42 .Fn semget "key_t key" "int nsems" "int flag"
44 Based on the values of
49 returns the identifier of a newly created or previously existing
52 .\" This is copied verbatim from the shmget manpage. Perhaps
53 .\" it should go in a common manpage, such as .Xr ipc 2
56 is analogous to a filename: it provides a handle that names an
57 IPC object. There are three ways to specify a key:
60 IPC_PRIVATE may be specified, in which case a new IPC object
63 An integer constant may be specified. If no IPC object corresponding
66 is specified and the IPC_CREAT bit is set in
68 a new one will be created.
71 may be used to generate a key from a pathname. See
75 .\" Likewise for this section, except SHM_* becomes SEM_*.
78 The mode of a newly created IPC object is determined by
80 the following constants into the
83 .Bl -tag -width XSEM_WXX6XXX
87 Alter access for user.
89 Read access for group.
91 Alter access for group.
93 Read access for other.
95 Alter access for other.
98 If a new set of semaphores is being created,
100 is used to indicate the number of semaphores the set should contain.
103 may be specified as 0.
106 returns the id of a semaphore set if successful; otherwise, -1
109 is set to indicate the error.
114 .\" ipcperm could fail (we're opening to read and write, as it were)
116 Access permission failure.
118 .\" sysv_sem.c is quite explicit about these, so I'm pretty sure
122 IPC_CREAT and IPC_EXCL were specified, and a semaphore set
127 The number of semaphores requested exceeds the system imposed maximum
130 Insufficiently many semaphores are available.
132 The kernel could not allocate a
133 .Fa "struct semid_ds" .
135 No semaphore set was found corresponding to
137 and IPC_CREAT was not specified.