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Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services

   

MPDeleteSemaphore

Removes a semaphore.

OSStatus MPDeleteSemaphore (MPSemaphoreID semaphore);
semaphore
A value of type MPSemaphoreID that specifies the ID of the semaphore you want to remove.
function result
A result code. See Result Codes for a list of possible values.
DISCUSSION

Calling this function unblocks all tasks waiting on the semaphore and the tasks' respective MPWaitOnSemaphore calls will return with the result code kMPDeletedErr .

VERSION NOTES

Introduced with Multiprocessing Services 1.0.

SEE ALSO

The function MPCreateSemaphore .

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