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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man3/sem_getvalue.3 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/sem_getvalue.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/sem_getvalue.3 | 74 |
1 files changed, 74 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/sem_getvalue.3 b/man/man3/sem_getvalue.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5ee09648f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/sem_getvalue.3 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH sem_getvalue 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +sem_getvalue \- get the value of a semaphore +.SH LIBRARY +POSIX threads library +.RI ( libpthread ", " \-lpthread ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <semaphore.h> +.P +.BI "int sem_getvalue(sem_t *restrict " sem ", int *restrict " sval ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR sem_getvalue () +places the current value of the semaphore pointed to +.I sem +into the integer pointed to by +.IR sval . +.P +If one or more processes or threads are blocked +waiting to lock the semaphore with +.BR sem_wait (3), +POSIX.1 permits two possibilities for the value returned in +.IR sval : +either 0 is returned; +or a negative number whose absolute value is the count +of the number of processes and threads currently blocked in +.BR sem_wait (3). +Linux adopts the former behavior. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR sem_getvalue () +returns 0 on success; +on error, \-1 is returned and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I sem +is not a valid semaphore. +(The glibc implementation currently does not check whether +.I sem +is valid.) +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR sem_getvalue () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001. +.SH NOTES +The value of the semaphore may already have changed by the time +.BR sem_getvalue () +returns. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR sem_post (3), +.BR sem_wait (3), +.BR sem_overview (7) |