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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:47 +0200 |
| commit | 70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc (patch) | |
| tree | bff270e2496dd284bccfc1271b43946f5d225224 /man/man3/sem_destroy.3 | |
| parent | 5423a6f86b2b920a5f3e8cf8d759b513050f2d33 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc.tar.gz | |
src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/
The root of the repository is becoming a bit overpopulated and
unorganized, due to the recent addition of more mandirs, and more
informative and configuration files too. Let's create a specific
mandir <man/> that contains the mandirs <man[1-8]*>.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/sem_destroy.3')
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1 files changed, 75 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/sem_destroy.3 b/man/man3/sem_destroy.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b376dd8e84 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/sem_destroy.3 @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH SEM_DESTROY 3 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +sem_destroy \- destroy an unnamed semaphore +.SH LIBRARY +POSIX threads library +.RI ( libpthread ", " \-lpthread ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <semaphore.h> +.PP +.BI "int sem_destroy(sem_t *" sem ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR sem_destroy () +destroys the unnamed semaphore at the address pointed to by +.IR sem . +.PP +Only a semaphore that has been initialized by +.BR sem_init (3) +should be destroyed using +.BR sem_destroy (). +.PP +Destroying a semaphore that other processes or threads are +currently blocked on (in +.BR sem_wait (3)) +produces undefined behavior. +.PP +Using a semaphore that has been destroyed produces undefined results, +until the semaphore has been reinitialized using +.BR sem_init (3). +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR sem_destroy () +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. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR sem_destroy () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH NOTES +An unnamed semaphore should be destroyed with +.BR sem_destroy () +before the memory in which it is located is deallocated. +Failure to do this can result in resource leaks on some implementations. +.\" But not on NPTL, where sem_destroy () is a no-op.. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR sem_init (3), +.BR sem_post (3), +.BR sem_wait (3), +.BR sem_overview (7) |