* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, this is on purpose.  SEM_STAT is just used for Linux binaries, and 
> they apparently specify a kernel semid rather than a user one for this 
> specific request.

Yes. Below is a snippet from the semctl(2) manpage on a Linux machine:

| SEM_STAT (Linux specific)
|       Returns a semid_ds structure as for IPC_STAT.  However, the
|       semid  argument  is  not  a  semaphore identifier, but instead
|       an index into the kernel's internal array that maintains
|       information about all semaphore sets on the system.

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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