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+.\" $OpenBSD: semctl.2,v 1.18 2021/11/21 23:44:55 jan Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: semctl.2,v 1.2 1997/03/27 08:20:40 mikel Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden
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+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 21 2021 $
+.Dt SEMCTL 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm semctl
+.Nd semaphore control operations
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/sem.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn semctl "int semid" "int semnum" "int cmd" "union semun arg"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn semctl
+system call provides a number of control operations on the semaphore specified
+by
+.Fa semnum
+and
+.Fa semid .
+The operation to be performed is specified in
+.Fa cmd
+(see below).
+.Fa arg
+is a union of the following fields:
+.Bd -literal
+ int val; /* value for SETVAL */
+ struct semid_ds *buf; /* buffer for IPC_{STAT,SET} */
+ u_short *array; /* array for GETALL & SETALL */
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The
+.Bf -literal
+semid_ds
+.Ef
+structure used in the
+.Dv IPC_SET
+and
+.Dv IPC_STAT
+commands is defined as follows in
+.In sys/sem.h :
+.Bd -literal
+struct semid_ds {
+ struct ipc_perm sem_perm; /* operation permissions */
+ struct sem *sem_base; /* semaphore set */
+ u_short sem_nsems; /* number of sems in set */
+ time_t sem_otime; /* last operation time */
+ time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
+};
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The
+.Bf -literal
+ipc_perm
+.Ef
+structure used inside the
+.Bf -literal
+semid_ds
+.Ef
+structure is defined in
+.In sys/ipc.h
+and looks like this:
+.Bd -literal
+struct ipc_perm {
+ uid_t cuid; /* creator user id */
+ gid_t cgid; /* creator group id */
+ uid_t uid; /* user id */
+ gid_t gid; /* group id */
+ mode_t mode; /* r/w permission (see chmod(2)) */
+ u_short seq; /* sequence # */
+ /* (to generate unique msg/sem/shm id) */
+ key_t key; /* user specified msg/sem/shm key */
+};
+.Ed
+.Pp
+.Fn semctl
+provides the following operations:
+.Bl -tag -width IPC_RMIDX
+.It Dv GETVAL
+Return the value of the semaphore.
+.It Dv SETVAL
+Set the value of the semaphore to
+.Va arg.val .
+.It Dv GETPID
+Return the pid of the last process that did an operation on this semaphore.
+.It Dv GETNCNT
+Return the number of processes waiting to acquire the semaphore.
+.It Dv GETZCNT
+Return the number of processes waiting for the value of the semaphore to
+reach 0.
+.It Dv GETALL
+Return the values for all the semaphores associated with
+.Fa semid .
+.It Dv SETALL
+Set the values for all the semaphores that are associated with the semaphore
+identifier
+.Fa semid
+to the corresponding values in
+.Va arg.array .
+.It Dv IPC_STAT
+Gather statistics about a semaphore and place the information in the
+.Bf -literal
+semid_ds
+.Ef
+structure pointed to by
+.Fa arg.buf
+(see above).
+.It Dv IPC_SET
+Set the value of the
+.Va sem_perm.uid ,
+.Va sem_perm.gid
+and
+.Va sem_perm.mode
+fields in the structure associated with the semaphore.
+The values are taken from the corresponding fields in the structure
+pointed to by
+.Fa arg.buf .
+This operation can only be executed by the superuser, or a process that
+has an effective user ID equal to either
+.Va sem_perm.cuid
+or
+.Va sem_perm.uid
+in the data structure associated with the message queue.
+.It Dv IPC_RMID
+Remove the semaphores associated with
+.Fa semid
+from the system and destroy the data structures associated with it.
+Only the superuser or a process with an effective UID equal to the
+.Va sem_perm.cuid
+or
+.Va sem_perm.uid
+values in the data structure associated with the semaphore can do this.
+.El
+.Pp
+The permission to read or change a message queue (see
+.Xr semop 2 )
+is determined by the
+.Va sem_perm.mode
+field in the same way as is
+done with files (see
+.Xr chmod 2 ) ,
+but the effective UID can match either the
+.Va sem_perm.cuid
+field or the
+.Va sem_perm.uid
+field, and the
+effective GID can match either
+.Va sem_perm.cgid
+or
+.Va sem_perm.gid .
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+For the
+.Dv GETVAL ,
+.Dv GETPID ,
+.Dv GETNCNT ,
+and
+.Dv GETZCNT
+operations,
+.Fn semctl
+returns one of the values described above if successful.
+All other operations will make
+.Fn semctl
+return 0 if no errors occur.
+Otherwise \-1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+set to reflect the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn semctl
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+.Fa cmd
+is equal to
+.Dv IPC_SET
+or
+.Dv IPC_RMID
+and the caller is not the superuser, nor does
+the effective UID match either the
+.Va sem_perm.uid
+or
+.Va sem_perm.cuid
+fields of the data structure associated with the message queue.
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+The caller has no operation permission for this semaphore.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa semid
+is not a valid message semaphore identifier.
+.Pp
+.Va cmd
+is not a valid command.
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+.Fa arg.buf
+or
+.Fa arg.array
+specify an invalid address.
+.It Bq Er ERANGE
+.Fa cmd
+is equal to
+.Dv SETVAL
+or
+.Dv SETALL
+and
+.Va arg.val
+or the values in
+.Va arg.array
+are greater than the system-imposed limit.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ipcrm 1 ,
+.Xr ipcs 1 ,
+.Xr semget 2 ,
+.Xr semop 2