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Semaphore Manager Building a Semaphore Attribute Set

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9.2.5: Building a Semaphore Attribute Set

In general, an attribute set is built by a bitwise OR of the desired attribute components. The following table lists the set of valid semaphore attributes:

Attribute values are specifically designed to be mutually exclusive, therefore bitwise OR and addition operations are equivalent as long as each attribute appears exactly once in the component list. An attribute listed as a default is not required to appear in the attribute list, although it is a good programming practice to specify default attributes. If all defaults are desired, the attribute RTEMS_DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTES should be specified on this call.

This example demonstrates the attribute_set parameter needed to create a local semaphore with the task priority waiting queue discipline. The attribute_set parameter passed to the rtems_semaphore_create directive could be either RTEMS_PRIORITY or RTEMS_LOCAL | RTEMS_PRIORITY. The attribute_set parameter can be set to RTEMS_PRIORITY because RTEMS_LOCAL is the default for all created tasks. If a similar semaphore were to be known globally, then the attribute_set parameter would be RTEMS_GLOBAL | RTEMS_PRIORITY.


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