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semctl.2: 'sem_nsems' is 'unsigned long' since Linux 2.4 

Reported-by: Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2013-06-03 18:44:45 +02:00
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@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
.\" Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions
.\" 2005-08-02, mtk: Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
.\"
.TH SEMCTL 2 2012-05-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH SEMCTL 2 2013-06-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
semctl \- System V semaphore control operations
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct semid_ds {
struct ipc_perm sem_perm; /* Ownership and permissions */
time_t sem_otime; /* Last semop time */
time_t sem_ctime; /* Last change time */
unsigned short sem_nsems; /* No. of semaphores in set */
unsigned long sem_nsems; /* No. of semaphores in set */
};
.in
.fi
@ -462,6 +462,17 @@ or greater than the implementation limit
.SH CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
.\" SVr4 documents more error conditions EINVAL and EOVERFLOW.
POSIX.1-2001 specifies the
.I sem_nsems
field of the
.I semid_ds
structure as having the type
.IR "unsigned\ short" ,
and the field is so defined on most other systems.
It was also so defined on Linux 2.2 and earlier,
but, since Linux 2.4, the field has the type
.IR "unsigned\ long" .
.SH NOTES
The inclusion of
.I <sys/types.h>