NtReleaseSemaphore

2OO1, 1O February

NtReleaseSemaphore

NTSYSAPI 
NTSTATUS
NTAPI


NtReleaseSemaphore(



  IN HANDLE               SemaphoreHandle,
  IN ULONG                ReleaseCount,
  OUT PULONG              PreviousCount OPTIONAL );

Function NtReleaseSemaphore increments semaphore's counter, oposite to any waiting function (semaphore is signaled when semaphore's counter is greater then zero).

SemaphoreHandle HANDLE to Semaphore Object opened with SEMAPHORE_MODIFY_STATE access.

ReleaseCount Number of increments, typically set to 1.

PreviousCount Optional pointer to ULONG value receiving semaphore's counter state before call.

Documented by:

Tomasz Nowak

Requirements:

Library: ntdll.lib

Undocumented functions of NTDLL