initial value of semaphores

Doug Schmidt schmidt at indetech.com
Sun Jul 1 08:10:24 AEST 1990


After a successful system call to

	sem_id = semget (SEMKEY, 1, 0777 | IPC_CREAT);

is the result of 

	semctl (sem_id, 0, GETVAL, 0);

guaranteed to be 0? (assuming there are no errors, etc.).  In otherwords,
what is the semval field of semaphores initialized to?  TFM doesn't 
seem to indicate this, and neither do Bach's or Rochkind's books.

	thanks,

		Doug
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