.\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 David Hovemeyer <daveho@infocom.com> .\" .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES .\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, .\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT .\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, .\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY .\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/sys/semget.2,v 1.14 2002/12/19 09:40:25 ru Exp $ .\" .Dd September 12, 1995 .Dt SEMGET 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm semget .Nd obtain a semaphore id .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/sem.h .Ft int .Fo semget .Fa "key_t key" .Fa "int nsems" .Fa "int semflg" .Fc .Sh DESCRIPTION Based on the values of .Fa key and .Fa semflg , .Fn semget returns the identifier of a newly created or previously existing set of semaphores. .\" .\" This is copied verbatim from the shmget manpage. Perhaps .\" it should go in a common manpage, such as .Xr ipc 2 .\" The key is analogous to a filename: it provides a handle that names an IPC object. There are three ways to specify a key: .Bl -bullet .It IPC_PRIVATE may be specified, in which case a new IPC object will be created. .It An integer constant may be specified. If no IPC object corresponding to .Fa key is specified and the IPC_CREAT bit is set in .Fa semflg , a new one will be created. .It The .Xr ftok 3 function may be used to generate a key from a pathname. .El .\" .\" Likewise for this section, except SHM_* becomes SEM_*. .\" .Pp The mode of a newly created IPC object is determined by .Em OR Ns 'ing the following constants into the .Fa semflg argument: .Bl -tag -width XSEM_WXX6XXX .It Dv SEM_R Read access for user. .It Dv SEM_A Alter access for user. .It Dv ( SEM_R>>3 ) Read access for group. .It Dv ( SEM_A>>3 ) Alter access for group. .It Dv ( SEM_R>>6 ) Read access for other. .It Dv ( SEM_A>>6 ) Alter access for other. .El .Pp If a new set of semaphores is being created, .Fa nsems is used to indicate the number of semaphores the set should contain. Otherwise, .Fa nsems may be specified as 0. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn semget system call returns the id of a semaphore set if successful; otherwise, -1 is returned and .Va errno is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn semget system call will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .\" =========== .\" ipcperm could fail (we're opening to read and write, as it were) .It Bq Er EACCES Access permission failure. .\" =========== .\" .\" sysv_sem.c is quite explicit about these, .\" so I'm pretty sure this is accurate .\" .It Bq Er EEXIST IPC_CREAT and IPC_EXCL were specified, and a semaphore set corresponding to .Fa key already exists. .\" =========== .It Bq Er EINVAL The number of semaphores requested is either less than 1 or greater than the system imposed maximum per set. .\" =========== .It Bq Er EINVAL A semaphore identifier exists for the argument key, but the number of semaphores in the set associated with it is less than .Fa nsems , and .Fa nsems is non-zero. .\" =========== .It Bq Er ENOENT No semaphore set was found corresponding to .Fa key , and IPC_CREAT was not specified. .\" =========== .It Bq Er ENOSPC Insufficiently many semaphores are available. .\" =========== .It Bq Er ENOSPC The kernel could not allocate a .Fa "struct semid_ds" . .El .Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS .Fd #include <sys/types.h> .Fd #include <sys/ipc.h> .Fd #include <sys/sem.h> .Pp The include files .In sys/types.h and .In sys/ipc.h are necessary. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr semctl 2 , .Xr semop 2 , .Xr ftok 3 , .Xr compat 5