I am trying to use POSIX named semaphores. Stripping it down, if I compile the program: #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <semaphore.h> int main() { sem_open("Sem1", O_CREAT, S_IRWXU, 0); sem_unlink("Sem1"); return 0; } and link it to /usr/lib/librt.a (which the Linux man pages say is the necessary library), I get a link error saying that sem_open() and sem_unlink() are unresolved. Looking inside librt.a using the nm utility, I cannot find any reference to the POSIX semaphores. Am I doing something dumb? Where do I find the implementations of the POSIX semaphores? Am I misinterpreting the man pages somehow? (I am using Ubuntu 9.1 with gcc-4.4.1.) Peter