CMDSemRequest

The CMDSemRequest function requests a RAM semaphore.

MS-DOS

USHORT FAR CMDSemRequest(

Parameters

ramSem

Address of the semaphore.

timeOut

Length of time in milliseconds to wait before returning.

Return Values

0

OK.

ERROR_SEM_TIMEOUT

Time-out expired before semaphore operation completed.

ERROR_SEM_OWNED

This thread or another thread owns the semaphore, and the calling thread specified zero time-out.