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Preface

Introduction

System Calls

access(2)

acct(2)

acl(2)

adjtime(2)

alarm(2)

audit(2)

auditon(2)

auditsvc(2)

brk(2)

chdir(2)

chmod(2)

chown(2)

chroot(2)

close(2)

creat(2)

dup(2)

exec(2)

execl(2)

execle(2)

execlp(2)

execv(2)

execve(2)

execvp(2)

_Exit(2)

_exit(2)

exit(2)

facl(2)

fchdir(2)

fchmod(2)

fchown(2)

fchownat(2)

fchroot(2)

fcntl(2)

fgetlabel(2)

fork1(2)

fork(2)

forkall(2)

fpathconf(2)

fstat(2)

fstatat(2)

fstatvfs(2)

futimens(2)

futimesat(2)

getacct(2)

getaudit(2)

getaudit_addr(2)

getauid(2)

getcontext(2)

getdents(2)

getegid(2)

geteuid(2)

getgid(2)

getgroups(2)

getisax(2)

getitimer(2)

getlabel(2)

getmsg(2)

getpflags(2)

getpgid(2)

getpgrp(2)

getpid(2)

getpmsg(2)

getppid(2)

getppriv(2)

getprojid(2)

getrctl(2)

getrlimit(2)

getsid(2)

gettaskid(2)

getuid(2)

getustack(2)

ioctl(2)

issetugid(2)

kill(2)

lchown(2)

link(2)

llseek(2)

lseek(2)

lstat(2)

_lwp_cond_broadcast(2)

_lwp_cond_reltimedwait(2)

_lwp_cond_signal(2)

_lwp_cond_timedwait(2)

_lwp_cond_wait(2)

_lwp_continue(2)

_lwp_info(2)

_lwp_kill(2)

_lwp_mutex_lock(2)

_lwp_mutex_trylock(2)

_lwp_mutex_unlock(2)

_lwp_self(2)

_lwp_sema_init(2)

_lwp_sema_post(2)

_lwp_sema_trywait(2)

_lwp_sema_wait(2)

_lwp_suspend(2)

memcntl(2)

meminfo(2)

mincore(2)

mkdir(2)

mknod(2)

mmap(2)

mount(2)

mprotect(2)

msgctl(2)

msgget(2)

msgids(2)

msgrcv(2)

msgsnap(2)

msgsnd(2)

munmap(2)

nice(2)

ntp_adjtime(2)

ntp_gettime(2)

open(2)

openat(2)

pathconf(2)

pause(2)

pcsample(2)

pipe(2)

poll(2)

p_online(2)

pread(2)

priocntl(2)

priocntlset(2)

processor_bind(2)

processor_info(2)

profil(2)

pset_assign(2)

pset_bind(2)

pset_create(2)

pset_destroy(2)

pset_getattr(2)

pset_info(2)

pset_list(2)

pset_setattr(2)

putacct(2)

putmsg(2)

putpmsg(2)

pwrite(2)

read(2)

readlink(2)

readv(2)

rename(2)

renameat(2)

resolvepath(2)

rmdir(2)

sbrk(2)

semctl(2)

semget(2)

semids(2)

semop(2)

semtimedop(2)

setaudit(2)

setaudit_addr(2)

setauid(2)

setcontext(2)

setegid(2)

seteuid(2)

setgid(2)

setgroups(2)

setitimer(2)

setpflags(2)

setpgid(2)

setpgrp(2)

setppriv(2)

setrctl(2)

setregid(2)

setreuid(2)

setrlimit(2)

setsid(2)

settaskid(2)

setuid(2)

setustack(2)

shmat(2)

shmctl(2)

shmdt(2)

shmget(2)

shmids(2)

shmop(2)

sigaction(2)

sigaltstack(2)

sigpending(2)

sigprocmask(2)

sigsend(2)

sigsendset(2)

sigsuspend(2)

sigwait(2)

__sparc_utrap_install(2)

stat(2)

statvfs(2)

stime(2)

swapctl(2)

symlink(2)

sync(2)

sysfs(2)

sysinfo(2)

time(2)

times(2)

uadmin(2)

ulimit(2)

umask(2)

umount(2)

umount2(2)

uname(2)

unlink(2)

unlinkat(2)

ustat(2)

utime(2)

utimensat(2)

utimes(2)

uucopy(2)

vfork(2)

vhangup(2)

waitid(2)

wracct(2)

write(2)

writev(2)

yield(2)

semget

- get set of semaphores

Synopsis

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ipc.h>
#include <sys/sem.h>

int semget(key_t key, int nsems, int semflg);

Description

The semget() function returns the semaphore identifier associated with key.

A semaphore identifier and associated data structure and set containing nsems semaphores (see Intro(2)) are created for key if one of the following is true:

On creation, the data structure associated with the new semaphore identifier is initialized as follows:

Return Values

Upon successful completion, a non-negative integer representing a semaphore identifier is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

The semget() function will fail if:

EACCES

A semaphore identifier exists for key, but operation permission (see Intro(2)) as specified by the low-order 9 bits of semflg would not be granted.

EEXIST

A semaphore identifier exists for key but both (semflg&IPC_CREAT) and (semflg&IPC_EXCL) are both true.

EINVAL

The nsems argument is either less than or equal to 0 or greater than the system-imposed limit. See NOTES.

A semaphore identifier exists for key, but the number of semaphores in the set associated with it is less than nsems and nsems is not equal to 0.

ENOENT

A semaphore identifier does not exist for key and (semflg&IPC_CREAT) is false.

ENOSPC

A semaphore identifier is to be created but the system-imposed limit on the maximum number of allowed semaphores or semaphore identifiers system-wide would be exceeded. See NOTES.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Standard

See Also

ipcrm(1), ipcs(1), rctladm(1M), Intro(2), semctl(2), semop(2), setrctl(2), ftok(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)

Notes

The system-imposed limit on the value of the nsems argument is the maintained on a per-process basis using the process.max-sem-nsems resource control.

The system-imposed limit on the number of semaphore identifiers is maintained on a per-project basis using the project.max-sem-ids resource control.

See rctladm(1M) and setrctl(2) for information about using resource controls.