process semaphores linux - wait

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Published on 2010-05-03T14:54:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 14:58 UTC
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Hi, I try to code a simple program that starts and waits on the system semaphore until it gets terminated by signal.


union semun {
   int val;
   struct semid_ds *buf;
   unsigned short int *array;
   struct seminfo *__buf;
};

int main(){ int semaphores = semget(IPC_PRIVATE,1,IPC_CREAT | 0666); union semun arg; arg.val = 0; semctl(semaphores,0,SETVAL,arg); struct sembuf operations[1]; operations[0].sem_num = 0; operations[0].sem_op = -1; operations[0].sem_flg = 0; semop(semaphores,operations,1); fprintf(stderr,"Why?\n"); return 0; }

I expect, that everytime this program gets executed, nothing actually happens and it waits on the semaphore, but everytime it goes through the semaphore and writes Why?. Why?

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