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Yeah, the process itself could keep track, I was trying to come up with a more "elegant" way. To protect from lazy developers. ;)

So what I want to prevent is a deadlock where a process reads memory decrementing semvalue by 1 then tries to request exclusive access. I would like to be able to determine that this process has...

From what I can determine the last process to interact with a semaphore stores it's pid in the semaphore buffer area.

Don't get hung up on 10. 10 was just a number I pulled out of my ---- When a...

I have a situation where I have created a semaphore and set it's value to 10. I am using this semaphore to control access to a shared memory location. I can have 10 processes simultaneously read...