Fatal error using flock
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 4 09:33:00 GMT 2014
On Dec 3 18:25, Kyle R. wrote:
> On Dec 2 16:52, Corinna Vinshen wrote:
^^^^^^^
oops
> > Ouch. The handle in the parent got created non-inheritable. That's
> > bad if the handle is utilized in subsequent child processes which rely
> > on being able to access the handle.
> >
> > I applied a patch and created a new developer snapshot on
> > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >
> > Please give it a try.
>
> Thanks Corinna, that works perfectly!
Thanks for testing. And thanks again for providing an STC, that's
very helpful.
> On Dec 2 14:48, Corrina Vinshen wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
it's getting worse :)
> > Pity. When I created the locking code I added lots and lots of comments
> > in the hope that
> >
> > a) other people would have a chance to understand how the code is
> > supposed to work and
> >
> > b) *I* have a chance to understand how the code is supposed to work
> > after not looking at the code for a year or longer...
>
> I should mention that I'm only a grad student with more of a focus in
> hardware and computer architecture than softare, so I don't have much
> experience in Linux land yet. Give me a year or so on the job and I may
> be able to understand and debug this kind of code. :)
Sure, I'd be glad! Only... it's mostly Win32/NT, not Linux code at this
eoint in the source ;)
Thanks,
Corinna
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