Fatal error using flock

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  4 10:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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 ;)

Weird typo.  s/eoint/point/


Corinna

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