This is a more complex semaphore wrapper that handles race conditions for initialization correctly...  
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Public Member Functions | 
|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex (void) | 
|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex (key_t key, short create=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex (const char *name, short create=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
|  | ~ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex (void) | 
| int | open (const char *name, short flags=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
| int | open (key_t key, short flags=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
| int | close (void) | 
| int | acquire (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Acquire the semaphore. 
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| int | acquire_read (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Acquire a semaphore for reading. 
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| int | acquire_write (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Acquire a semaphore for writing. 
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| int | tryacquire (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Try to acquire the semaphore. 
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| int | tryacquire_read (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Try to acquire the semaphore for reading. 
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| int | tryacquire_write (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Try to acquire the semaphore for writing. 
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| int | release (u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
|  | Release the semaphore. 
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| int | op (short val, u_short n=0, short flags=0) const | 
| int | op (sembuf op_vec[], u_short n) const | 
|  | General ACE_SV_Semaphore operation on an array of SV_Semaphores. 
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| int | control (int cmd, semun arg, u_short n=0) const | 
| int | control (int cmd, int value=0, u_short n=0) const | 
| void | dump (void) const | 
|  | Dump the state of an object. 
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Additional Inherited Members | 
| enum | { ACE_CREATE =  IPC_CREAT, 
ACE_EXCL =  IPC_EXCL, 
ACE_OPEN =  0
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|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple (void) | 
|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple (key_t key, short flags=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple (const char *name, short flags=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
|  | ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple (const wchar_t *name, short flags=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
|  | ~ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple (void) | 
| int | open (const wchar_t *name, short flags=ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::ACE_CREATE, int initial_value=1, u_short nsems=1, mode_t perms=ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS) | 
| int | remove (void) const | 
| int | get_id (void) const | 
|  | Get underlying internal id. 
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| int | init (key_t k=static_cast< key_t >(ACE_INVALID_SEM_KEY), int i=-1) | 
| key_t | name_2_key (const char *name) | 
| key_t | key_ | 
|  | Semaphore key. 
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| int | internal_id_ | 
|  | Internal ID to identify the semaphore group within this process. 
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| int | sem_number_ | 
|  | Number of semaphores we're creating. 
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This is a more complex semaphore wrapper that handles race conditions for initialization correctly... 
This code is a port to C++, inspired by: W. Richard Stevens from his book: UNIX Network Programming (Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-949876-1 - 1990). We provide a simpler and easier to understand interface to the System V Semaphore system calls. We create and use a 2 + n-member set for the requested <ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex>. The first member, [0], is a counter used to know when all processes have finished with the <ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex>. The counter is initialized to a large number, decremented on every create or open and incremented on every close. This way we can use the "adjust" feature provided by System V so that any process that exit's without calling <close> is accounted for. It doesn't help us if the last process does this (as we have no way of getting control to remove the <ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex>) but it will work if any process other than the last does an exit (intentional or unintentional). The second member, [1], of the semaphore is used as a lock variable to avoid any race conditions in the <create> and <close> functions. The members beyond [1] are actual semaphore values in the array of semaphores, which may be sized by the user in the constructor.