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BSD syscall#276

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sem_destroy

POSIX entry point pairing with sem_init; also unsupported on Darwin.

Prototype

int sem_destroy(sem_t *sem);

Returns: int

Arguments

NameTypeDirDescription
semsem_t-

Version history

XNU tagmacOS#
xnu-1456.1.26macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard276
xnu-1699.24.8macOS 10.7 Lion276
xnu-2050.18.24macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion276
xnu-2422.115.4macOS 10.9 Mavericks276
xnu-1486.2.11—276
xnu-1504.15.3—276
xnu-1504.3.12—276
xnu-1504.7.4—276
xnu-1504.9.17—276
xnu-1504.9.26—276
xnu-1504.9.37—276
xnu-1699.22.73—276
xnu-1699.22.81—276
xnu-1699.24.23—276
xnu-1699.26.8—276
xnu-1699.32.7—276
xnu-2050.22.13—276
xnu-2050.24.15—276
xnu-2050.48.11—276
xnu-2050.7.9—276
xnu-2050.9.2—276
xnu-2422.1.72—276
xnu-2422.100.13—276
xnu-2422.110.17—276
xnu-2422.90.20—276

Notes

Like sem_init(3), sem_destroy(3) is a stub that returns ENOSYS on macOS because unnamed POSIX semaphores are unimplemented. Use sem_close(3) + sem_unlink(3) for the named variant.

Related APIs

sem_initsem_closesem_unlink