Re: problem with mmap and fork()

[Doug Henderson <djndnbvg at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 17:01, Glyn Gowing <> wrote:
> I have a program (attached) that works correctly on my mac but does
> not work with Cygwin on Windows 10. I'm running the latest version of

> What happens in the buggy execution is that the child obtains a lock
> before the parent releases it. I'm using mmap and a pthread_mutex_t
> object along with fork(). Again, this exact code works correctly on my
> Mac running Mojave.

On further analysis, the call to
> pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(attr, PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED);
is failing. The error is EINVAL (22) Invalid argument.

This suggests that pthread mutexes cannot be shared between processes
by using shared memory in cygwin. I have not attempted to determine if
this is working as expected, or if this is a bug, or a limitation in
the Windows environment.

I have attached my files:
smtest2.c - my heavily modified version of OP's original.
smtest2.txt - output from running this version.showing error.
smtest3.c - my version which uses 2 pthreads in a single process
smtest3.txt - output from running this version, showing OP's expected results.

HTH
Doug

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