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SEMOP(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SEMOP(2)
NAME
semop, semtimedop - semaphore operations
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ipc.h>
#include <sys/sem.h>
int semop(int semid, struct sembuf *sops, unsigned nsops);
int semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf *sops, unsigned nsops, struct timespec
*timeout);
DESCRIPTION
Each semaphore in a semaphore set has the following associated values:
unsigned short semval; /* semaphore value */
unsigned short semzcnt; /* # waiting for zero */
unsigned short semncnt; /* # waiting for increase */
pid_t sempid; /* process that did last op */
semop() performs operations on selected semaphores in the set indicated by semid.
Each of the nsops elements in the array pointed to by sops specifies an operation
to be performed on a single semaphore. The elements of this structure are of type
struct sembuf, containing the following members:
unsigned short sem_num; /* semaphore number */
short sem_op; /* semaphore operation */
short sem_flg; /* operation flags */
Flags recognized in sem_flg are IPC_NOWAIT and SEM_UNDO. If an operation specifies
SEM_UNDO, it will be automatically undone when the process terminates.
The set of operations contained in sops is performed atomically, that is, the oper-
ations are performed at the same time, and only if they can all be simultaneously
performed. The behaviour of the system call if not all operations can be performed
immediately depends on the presence of the IPC_NOWAIT flag in the individual
sem_flg fields, as noted below.
Each operation is performed on the sem_num-th semaphore of the semaphore set, where
the first semaphore of the set is numbered 0. There are three types of operation,
distinguished by the value of sem_op.
If sem_op is a positive integer, the operation adds this value to the semaphore
value (semval). Furthermore, if SEM_UNDO is specified for this operation, the sys-
tem updates the process undo count (semadj) for this semaphore. This operation can
always proceed -- it never forces a process to wait. The calling process must have
alter permission on the semaphore set.
If sem_op is zero, the process must have read permission on the semaphore set.
This is a "wait-for-zero" operation: if semval is zero, the operation can immedi-
ately proceed. Otherwise, if IPC_NOWAIT is specified in sem_flg, semop() fails
with errno set to EAGAIN (and none of the operations in sops is performed). Other-
wise semzcnt (the count of processes waiting until this semaphore's value becomes
zero) is incremented by one and the process sleeps until one of the following
occurs:
? semval becomes 0, at which time the value of semzcnt is decremented.
? The semaphore set is removed: semop() fails, with errno set to EIDRM.
? The calling process catches a signal: the value of semzcnt is decremented
and semop() fails, with errno set to EINTR.
? The time limit specified by timeout in a semtimedop() call expires: semop()
fails, with errno set to EAGAIN.
If sem_op is less than zero, the process must have alter permission on the
semaphore set. If semval is greater than or equal to the absolute value of sem_op,
the operation can proceed immediately: the absolute value of sem_op is subtracted
from semval, and, if SEM_UNDO is specified for this operation, the system updates
the process undo count (semadj) for this semaphore. If the absolute value of
sem_op is greater than semval, and IPC_NOWAIT is specified in sem_flg, semop()
fails, with errno set to EAGAIN (and none of the operations in sops is performed).
Otherwise semncnt (the counter of processes waiting for this semaphore's value to
increase) is incremented by one and the process sleeps until one of the following
occurs:
? semval becomes greater than or equal to the absolute value of sem_op, at
which time the value of semncnt is decremented, the absolute value of sem_op
is subtracted from semval and, if SEM_UNDO is specified for this operation,
the system updates the process undo count (semadj) for this semaphore.
? The semaphore set is removed from the system: semop() fails, with errno set
to EIDRM.
? The calling process catches a signal: the value of semncnt is decremented
and semop() fails, with errno set to EINTR.
? The time limit specified by timeout in a semtimedop() call expires: the sys-
tem call fails, with errno set to EAGAIN.
On successful completion, the sempid value for each semaphore specified in the
array pointed to by sops is set to the process ID of the calling process. In addi-
tion, the sem_otime is set to the current time.
semtimedop() behaves identically to semop() except that in those cases were the
calling process would sleep, the duration of that sleep is limited by the amount of
elapsed time specified by the timespec structure whose address is passed in the
timeout parameter. If the specified time limit has been reached, semtimedop()
fails with errno set to EAGAIN (and none of the operations in sops is performed).
If the timeout parameter is NULL, then semtimedop() behaves exactly like semop().
RETURN VALUE
If successful semop() and semtimedop() return 0; otherwise they return -1 with
errno indicating the error.
ERRORS
On failure, errno is set to one of the following:
E2BIG The argument nsops is greater than SEMOPM, the maximum number of operations
allowed per system call.
EACCES The calling process does not have the permissions required to perform the
specified semaphore operations, and does not have the CAP_IPC_OWNER capabil-
ity.
EAGAIN An operation could not proceed immediately and either IPC_NOWAIT was speci-
fied in sem_flg or the time limit specified in timeout expired.
EFAULT An address specified in either the sops or timeout parameters isn't accessi-
ble.
EFBIG For some operation the value of sem_num is less than 0 or greater than or
equal to the number of semaphores in the set.
EIDRM The semaphore set was removed.
EINTR While blocked in this system call, the process caught a signal.
EINVAL The semaphore set doesn't exist, or semid is less than zero, or nsops has a
non-positive value.
ENOMEM The sem_flg of some operation specified SEM_UNDO and the system does not
have enough memory to allocate the undo structure.
ERANGE For some operation sem_op+semval is greater than SEMVMX, the implementation
dependent maximum value for semval.
NOTES
The sem_undo structures of a process aren't inherited across a fork(2) system call,
but they are inherited across an execve(2) system call.
semop() is never automatically restarted after being interrupted by a signal han-
dler, regardless of the setting of the SA_RESTART flag when establishing a signal
handler.
semadj is a per-process integer which is simply the (negative) count of all
semaphore operations performed specifying the SEM_UNDO flag. When a semaphore's
value is directly set using the SETVAL or SETALL request to semctl(2), the corre-
sponding semadj values in all processes are cleared.
The semval, sempid, semzcnt, and semnct values for a semaphore can all be retrieved
using appropriate semctl(2) calls.
The following limits on semaphore set resources affect the semop() call:
SEMOPM Maximum number of operations allowed for one semop() call (32) (on Linux,
this limit can be read and modified via the third field of /proc/sys/ker-
nel/sem).
SEMVMX Maximum allowable value for semval: implementation dependent (32767).
The implementation has no intrinsic limits for the adjust on exit maximum value
(SEMAEM), the system wide maximum number of undo structures (SEMMNU) and the
per-process maximum number of undo entries system parameters.
semtimedop() first appeared in Linux 2.5.52, and was subsequently backported into
kernel 2.4.22.
BUGS
When a process terminates, its set of associated semadj structures is used to undo
the effect of all of the semaphore operations it performed with the SEM_UNDO flag.
This raises a difficulty: if one (or more) of these semaphore adjustments would
result in an attempt to decrease a semaphore's value below zero, what should an
implementation do? One possible approach would be to block until all the semaphore
adjustments could be performed. This is however undesirable since it could force
process termination to block for arbitrarily long periods. Another possibility is
that such semaphore adjustments could be ignored altogether (somewhat analogously
to failing when IPC_NOWAIT is specified for a semaphore operation). Linux adopts a
third approach: decreasing the semaphore value as far as possible (i.e., to zero)
and allowing process termination to proceed immediately.
In kernels 2.6.x, x <= 10, there is a bug that in some circumstances prevents a
process that is waiting for a semaphore value to become zero from being woken up
when the value does actually become zero. This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.11.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO
semctl(2), semget(2), sigaction(2), capabilities(7), sem_overview(7), svipc(7)
Linux 2.6.9 2004-11-10 SEMOP(2)
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