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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/sem_open.3')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/sem_open.3 b/man3/sem_open.3 index 5e69093a4b..81ff18e831 100644 --- a/man3/sem_open.3 +++ b/man3/sem_open.3 @@ -153,10 +153,17 @@ The system limit on the total number of open files has been reached. The .B O_CREAT flag was not specified in -.IR oflag , +.IR oflag and no semaphore with this .I name -exists. +exists; +or, +.\" this error can occur if we have a name of the (non-portable) form +.\" /dir/name, and the directory /dev/shm/dir does not exist. +.B O_CREAT +was specified, but +.I name +wasn't well formed. .TP .B ENOMEM Insufficient memory. |