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Re: signal semaphores inheritance
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:47:33AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Tuesday, 20 February, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin-patches@cygwin.com wrote:
>
> CV> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:24:09PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> if ntsec is on and cygwin app a.exe (with pid x) starts non-cygwin
> >> app b.exe, b.exe inherits cygwin1S3.sigcatch.x semaphore. if a.exe
> >> dies and b.exe continue execution, and if new cygwin app c.exe
> >> got pid x it, fails to create sigcatch semaphore. looks like typo in
> >> getsem() to me. is this patch ok?
>
> CV> Did you check it with apps chenging the user context? AFAIR I had
> CV> a reason using an inheritable SD...
>
> hmm. i haven't noticed any differences. i may have missed something,
> though. but, if this handle is supposed to be inheritable, shouldn't
> it be DuplicateHandle()'d in child process? I've grepped through
> sources and haven't find any DuplicateHandle() used on semaphores. so
> even if this handle is made inheritable, i don't see the place
> where child is using it.
Please don't misunderstand me. I'm asking that question because I'm
really unsure why this is an inheritable SD and I only remember (in
the deepest corner of my brain) that there might have been _some_ issue
to do it that way but my alzheimer disease is getting worse...
If you have tested the patch with using telnet or ssh to actually
change the user context and an `id' results in the correct identity
and the permissions seem to be ok then I have no problem with your patch.
Corinna
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