knReleaseRtSemaphore

Releases a single unit to a specified semaphore. If threads are waiting at the semaphore, the thread at the head of the queue is awakened and given the unit.

Warning: If this function is invoked on a semaphore that contains the maximum of 65,535 units, the number of units in the semaphore is not incremented, and the results will be unpredictable.

Note: This is a signaling call; call knStopRtScheduler in interrupt handlers before using this call.

VOID knReleaseRtSemaphore(
    KNHANDLE hSemaphore    // handle for low-level semaphore
);

Parameters

hSemaphore: KNHANDLE for a low-level semaphore object.

Requirements

Versions	Defined in	Include	Link to
INtime 3.0	intime/rt/include/rtbase.h	rt.h	rt.lib

Parameters

Requirements

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