53.4. Unnamed Semaphores

Unnamed semaphores (also known as memory-based semaphores) are variables of type sem_t that are stored in memory allocated by the application. The semaphore is made available to the processes or threads that use it by placing it in an area of memory that they share.

Operations on unnamed semaphores use the same functions (sem_wait(), sem_post(), sem_getvalue(), and so on) that are used to operate on named semaphores. In addition, two further functions are required: