I hope this isn't a stupid question...

Quality Quorum qqi at world.std.com
Thu Oct 19 12:20:18 UTC 2000



On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 Gregory.D.Menke.1 at gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:

> 
> I've got our app compiling, sucessfully linking, and starting on our
> powerpc target.  My current intractable problem is the call;
> 
> sem_open("top_sem", O_CREAT, 0777, 0);
> sem_open("top_sem", O_CREAT, 0, 0); also failed identically.
> 
> which is failing with -1; perror() reports no space left on device.
> This is the first of a couple of semaphores created by the app.
> 
> I'm using the posix api, no itron, no c++ and no networking.  I have
> all the posix config #defines set up to reasonable values.
> 
> Is there some additional initialization I need to perform?

I suspec you have to specify that you want the REAL semaphore manager (I
do not have source handy, so I cannotell you exactly) to be linked in.
By default you are lining dummy manager which just fails everything.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregm
> 
> 

Thanks,

Aleksey





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