NAME

sem_destroy —

destroy an unnamed semaphore

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <semaphore.h>

int
sem_destroy(sem_t *sem);

DESCRIPTION

The sem_destroy() function destroys the unnamed semaphore pointed to by sem. After a successful call to sem_destroy(), sem is unusable until re-initialized by another call to sem_init(3).

RETURN VALUES

The sem_destroy() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The sem_destroy() function will fail if:

[EINVAL]: The sem argument points to an invalid semaphore.
[EBUSY]: There are currently threads blocked on the semaphore that sem points to.

STANDARDS

The sem_destroy() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (“POSIX.1”).

POSIX does not define the behavior of sem_destroy() if called while there are threads blocked on sem, but this implementation is guaranteed to return -1 and set errno to EBUSY if there are threads blocked on sem.