[64bit] Problem with emacs and shared memory under X11

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Jul 19 17:19:00 GMT 2013


On 7/19/2013 1:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 19 12:04, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/19/2013 7:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 19 11:22, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> Oh yes, that works, and is a bit clearer.
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing.  I applied the patch and attributed it to you in
>>> the ChangeLog since you did all the work anyway.
>>
>> There's still the x86 issue that I mentioned earlier.  With
>> cygwin-1.7.21 (as well as today's snapshot), I'm getting a return
>> value of 0 from shmtest on x86.  This is with cygserver not running.
>> (In fact, cygserver has never been configured on this system, so
>> there's no /etc/cygserver.conf).  Jon reported getting a return
>> value of 1 using cygwin-1.7.20.
>
> I don't recall seeing this testcase.  Any chance you can extract an STC
> to help fixing this?  I wonder how this happened anyway.  There were no
> changes in terms of XSI IPC between 1.7.20 and 1.7.21, except for tiny
> changes for porting to x86_64.  What on earth did I screw up this
> time?!?

I used Jon's testcase from

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00229.html

Ken



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