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35 .Nd destroy an unnamed semaphore
41 .Fn sem_destroy "sem_t *sem"
45 function destroys the unnamed semaphore pointed to by
47 After a successful call to
50 is unusable until re-initialized by another call to
59 There are currently threads blocked on the semaphore that
64 points to an invalid semaphore.
73 POSIX does not define the behavior of
75 if called while there are threads blocked on
77 but this implementation is guaranteed to return \-1 and set
81 if there are threads blocked on