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Multiple semaphore sets with same semid

danopel

2006-05-13, 1:18 am

While running an application using several semaphore sets with
different keys, I always get the same semid returned from semget. Is
this standard behavior? Can a process simultaneously own and signal
several semaphore sets?
Thanks for the help.