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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users invalid argument in semctl() Post 302319875 by asimibm on Tuesday 26th of May 2009 11:23:33 AM
Old 05-26-2009
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Originally Posted by fpmurphy
Can you be more specfic? By 'invalid argument" do you mean EINVAL? What command (i.e the 3rd argument to semctl()) were you attempting?

Thanks for your reply!!!! I have solved my problem. Actually the kernel of my server has a lots of semafore. So I can not create new semafore. I have used the command ipcrm -s <semafore id> to remove some of the semafore.

After this it worked fine.
 

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ipcrm(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ipcrm(1)

Name
       ipcrm - remove a message queue, semaphore set

Syntax
       ipcrm [options]

Description
       The command removes one or more specified messages, semaphores or shared memory identifiers.

       The details of the removes are described in and The identifiers and keys may be found by

Options
       -q msqid 	   Removes the message queue identifier msqid from the system and destroys the message queue and data structure associated
			   with it.

       -m shmid 	   Removes the shared memory identifier shmid from the system.	The shared memory segment and  data  structure	associated
			   with it are destroyed after the last detach.

       -s semid 	   Removes the semaphore identifier semid from the system and destroys the set of semaphores and data structure associated
			   with it.

       -Q msgkey	   Removes the message queue identifier, created with key msgkey, from the system and destroys the message queue and  data
			   structure associated with it.

       -M shmkey	   Removes  the  shared  memory  identifier, created with key shmkey, from the system.	The shared memory segment and data
			   structure associated with it are destroyed after the last detach.

       -S semkey	   Removes the semaphore identifier, created with key semkey, from the system and destroys the set of semaphores and  data
			   structure associated with it.

See Also
       ipcs(1), msgctl(2), msgget(2), msgop(2), semctl(2), semget(2), semop(2), shmctl(2), shmget(2), shmop(2)

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