Prototype: int sem_wait(sem_t *sem);
#include <semaphore.h> sem_t sem; int ret; ret = sem_wait(&sem); /* wait for semaphore */
Use sema_wait(3THR) to block the calling thread until the count in the semaphore pointed to by sem becomes greater than zero, then atomically decrement it.
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.