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USNEWPOLLSEMA(3P)					     USNEWPOLLSEMA(3P)


NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     usnewpollsema - allocate and initialize a pollable	semaphore

C SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <ulocks.h>

     usema_t *usnewpollsema (usptr_t *handle, int val);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     usnewpollsema allocates a semaphore and initializes its count to the
     value specified by	val. Initially,	metering and debugging are off (and
     can be turned on through a	call to	usctlsema(3P)) and the history logging
     mechanism is set according	to the global setting (see usconfig(3P)).  The
     semaphore is allocated from the shared arena designated by	handle as
     returned from usinit(3P).	Pollable semaphores never block	the caller.
     If	the semaphore is unavailable when uspsema(3P) is called, the caller is
     queued to receive the semaphore and returns immediately.  To actually
     acquire the semaphore the caller must issue a poll(2) or select(2)	on the
     file descriptor associated	with the semaphore.  A file descriptor is
     allocated via usopenpollsema(3P).	The POLLIN event should	be used	with
     poll(2).  The semaphore file descriptor should be passed in as a read
     descriptor	for select(2).

     A val of 0	implies	no available resources,	and the	first process that
     attempts a	'P' operation (via uspsema(3P))	will return 0.	This can be
     viewed as a synchronizing semaphore, since	the goal is to always have a
     process wait until	another	has completed an operation that	the first
     process requires.	Positive values	for val	can be used for	tracking a
     collection	of resources.  The simplest case of a value of 1 implements
     the common	mutual exclusion semaphore, where one and only one process
     will be permitted through a semaphore at a	time.  Values greater than one
     imply that	up to val resources may	be simultaneously used,	but requests
     for more than val resources cause the calling process to wait until a
     resource comes free (by a process holding a resource performing a
     usvsema(3P)).

     Pollable semaphores may be	used with all the other	semaphore routines.
     They must be freed	using usfreepollsema(3P).

     usnewpollsema will	fail if	one or more of the following are true:

     [ENOMEM]	    There is no	memory available in the	arena to allocate the
		    semaphore structure	(see usconfig(3P)).  Pollable
		    semaphores take more memory	than non-pollable semaphores
		    since a file descriptor per	user must be saved.

     [EINVAL]	    val	is less	than zero or greater than 30000.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

      
      
     poll(2), select(2), amalloc(3P), uscpsema(3P), usconfig(3P),
     usctlsema(3P), usdumpsema(3P), usclosepollsema(3P), usfreesema(3P),
     usfreepollsema(3P), usinit(3P), usnewsema(3P), usopenpollsema(3P),



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USNEWPOLLSEMA(3P)					     USNEWPOLLSEMA(3P)



     usvsema(3P).

DIAGNOSTICS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Upon successful completion, a value of pointer to a usema_t structure is
     returned. Otherwise, a value of NULL is returned and errno	is set to
     indicate the error.


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