sem_open really strange behavior

[Sergio Sobarzo]

Thanks a lot Andrew,

I read that paragraph thousand of times. However it is not an answer why 
it works if a line is commented or not. I cannot figure an acceptable 
explanation, that's why I thought it will be a gcc question.

On 22-06-2010 9:23, Andrew Bell wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Sergio Sobarzo<ssobarzo@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing an application using semaphores. Here is a simple code
>> recreating the problem:
>>
>> ***********************************************
>> #include<sys/types.h>
>> #include<stdio.h>
>> #include<semaphore.h>
>> #include<sys/types.h>
>> #include<sys/stat.h>
>> #include<fcntl.h>
>> #include<stdlib.h>
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>>   int ok;
>> //key_t t;
>> char *shm,*s;
>> sem_t *mutex;
>>
>>   mutex = sem_open("/vik",O_CREAT|O_EXCL);
>>   if(mutex == SEM_FAILED)
>>     {
>>       perror("unable to create semaphore");
>>       sem_unlink("vik");
>>       exit(-1);
>>     }
>>
>>   sem_close(mutex);
>>   sem_unlink("vik");
>>   exit(0);
>> }
>> ************************************************
>>      
> The man page for sem_open says that if you include O_CREAT as a flag
> you must also provide the mode and value arguments.  Have you tried
> that?
>
> P.S. - This isn't a gcc issue - you should probably post this to a
> general UNIX programming list.
>
> Best,
>
>