Blocking on a Semaphore Count

Use sem_wait(3RT) to block the calling thread until the semaphore count pointed to by sem becomes greater than zero, then atomically decrement the count.

sem_wait Syntax

int sem_wait(sem_t *sem);

#include <semaphore.h>

sem_t sem;
int ret;

ret = sem_wait(&sem); /* wait for semaphore */

sem_wait Return Values

sem_wait() returns zero after completing successfully. Any other return value indicates that an error occurred. When any of the following conditions occurs, the function fails and returns the corresponding value.

EINVAL

Description:

sem points to an illegal address.

EINTR

Description:

A signal interrupted this function.