sem_unlink - remove a named semaphore
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ sem_unlink() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
sem_unlink() removes the named semaphore referred to by name. The semaphore name is removed immediately.
The semaphore is destroyed once all other processes that have the semaphore open close it.
Errors
EACCES The caller does not have permission to unlink this semaphore.
ENAMETOOLONGname was too long.
ENOENT There is no semaphore with the given name.
History
POSIX.1-2001.
Library
POSIX threads library (libpthread, -lpthread)
Name
sem_unlink - remove a named semaphore
Return Value
On success sem_unlink() returns 0; on error, -1 is returned, with errno set to indicate the error.
See Also
sem_getvalue(3), sem_open(3), sem_post(3), sem_wait(3), sem_overview(7) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 sem_unlink(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<semaphore.h>intsem_unlink(constchar*name);