RE: Smctl Method Returns Failure.

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 12 March 2007 15:25, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL>.  Thanks.
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, neo napster wrote:
> >
> >> We are making calls to Cygserver methods from our applications, the below
> >> call we are doing:
> >>
> >> semctl (int semid, int semnum, int cmd).
> >>
> >> but the Cygserver is returning Failure from this method. When we kept
> >> debugs in Cygserver we got the following message:
> >>
> >> -1 [22] = semctl ()
> >>
> >> Can any one suggest on this..
> >
> > As Corinna mentioned, error 22 == EINVAL, which is sometimes rendered as
> > "Bad system call".  For more details, see
> > <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc>.
>
>   Say, as long as you and "seema r j" are both having trouble with
> CygIPC, and since you are both sitting at the same computer
> (59.160.129.133), why don't you try and lend each other a hand?

Well, I'm certainly not at 59.160.129.133 -- that's about 12 timezones
away from me.  That said, ...

Third time's the charm... :-)
	Igor
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