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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2003-01-14 04:12:33 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2003-01-14 04:12:33 +0000
commit8f97c15f80b1b5c708048e55765ff56df527eb82 (patch)
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Sharing semaphores between processes works now, so remove the stale comments
about it always returning EPERM. Document that ENFILE occurs when the limit on kernel semaphores is reached.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc_r')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc_r/man/sem_init.324
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc_r/man/sem_init.3 b/lib/libc_r/man/sem_init.3
index f9eec78..a6bba4a 100644
--- a/lib/libc_r/man/sem_init.3
+++ b/lib/libc_r/man/sem_init.3
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\" EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
-.Dd February 15, 2000
+.Dd January 14, 2003
.Dt SEM_INIT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ to have the value
.Fa value .
A non-zero value for
.Fa pshared
-specifies a shared semaphore that can be used by multiple processes, which this
-implementation is not capable of.
+specifies a shared semaphore that can be used by any process
+that can access
+.Fa sem .
.Pp
Following a successful call to
.Fn sem_init ,
@@ -73,8 +74,10 @@ will fail if:
exceeds SEM_VALUE_MAX.
.It Bq Er ENOSPC
Memory allocation error.
-.It Bq Er EPERM
-Unable to initialize a shared semaphore.
+.It Bq Er ENFILE
+The system limit on semaphores
+.Pq Dv SEM_NSEMS_MAX
+has been reached.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sem_destroy 3 ,
@@ -86,14 +89,3 @@ Unable to initialize a shared semaphore.
.Fn sem_init
conforms to
.St -p1003.1-96 .
-.Pp
-This implementation does not support shared semaphores, and reports this fact
-by setting
-.Va errno
-to
-.Er EPERM .
-This is perhaps a stretch of the intention of POSIX, but is
-compliant, with the caveat that
-.Fn sem_init
-always reports a permissions error when an attempt to create a shared semaphore
-is made.
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