Hi Peter, try the -static option to build a statically bound executable. Then, your executable shouldn't crash anymore. Andi Peter Rockett wrote: > Hi Andi > > Yes, the sem_*() functions are indeed defined in libpthread.a. I guess the > Ubuntu man page is out-of-date - I have e-mailed Canonical. > > The program now builds OK although it seems also to require linking to > libc.a to resolve things like __syscall_error(), _dl_sysinfo_dso() and > others. But the resulting exe immediately crashes with a segmentation fault. > In fact, removing everything from the body of main(), i.e. compiling int > main(){return 0;} and linking against libc.a also crashes with a > segmentation fault. Any ideas what's causing this? > > Peter > > > Hi Peter, > > my man page says to link to librt _or_ libpthread. libpthread finally > defines the symbols sem_open and sem_unlink. > > Andi > > Peter Rockett wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > >