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authorjilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2015-01-28 22:42:56 +0000
committerjilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2015-01-28 22:42:56 +0000
commit1fd46ffae3876ef73b20c70d78016b18be7cc141 (patch)
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parentf7310af2cc0ef7e605de1c75f2a0ad8d6a1eddfb (diff)
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sem_post(): Fix and document semaphore value overflow error.
The error code is per Austin Group issue #315. I provided different wording for the manual page change. Submitted by: pluknet MFC after: 1 week
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sem_new.c6
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sem_post.35
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sem_new.c b/lib/libc/gen/sem_new.c
index 3ee0272..c5dc7e7 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sem_new.c
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sem_new.c
@@ -439,8 +439,10 @@ _sem_post(sem_t *sem)
do {
count = sem->_kern._count;
- if (USEM_COUNT(count) + 1 > SEM_VALUE_MAX)
- return (EOVERFLOW);
+ if (USEM_COUNT(count) + 1 > SEM_VALUE_MAX) {
+ errno = EOVERFLOW;
+ return (-1);
+ }
} while (!atomic_cmpset_rel_int(&sem->_kern._count, count, count + 1));
if (count & USEM_HAS_WAITERS)
usem_wake(&sem->_kern);
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sem_post.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sem_post.3
index 485d2fc..dea8eb6 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sem_post.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sem_post.3
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 15, 2000
+.Dd January 28, 2015
.Dt SEM_POST 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ The
.Fa sem
argument
points to an invalid semaphore.
+.It Bq Er EOVERFLOW
+The semaphore value would exceed
+.Dv SEM_VALUE_MAX .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sem_getvalue 3 ,
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