SEMCTL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION

NAME

semctl - SysV semaphore control operations

SYNOPSIS

semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG

DESCRIPTION

Calls the System V IPC function semctl. If CMD is &IPC_STAT or &GETALL, then ARG must be a variable which will hold the returned semid_ds structure or semaphore value array. Returns like ioctl: the undefined value for error, "0 but true" for zero, or the actual return value otherwise.