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RE: Smctl Method Returns Failure.
On 12 March 2007 15:49, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> 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, ...
Hey, I was piggybacking. So sue me!
cheers,
DaveK
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