Using signals to unblock calls to msgrcv() in a multi-threaded process (Cygwin v1.7.33)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jan 20 13:55:00 GMT 2015


On Jan 19 20:46, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 1/19/2015 8:10 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >
> >Well, it was not as complicated as I anticipated.  I applied a patch
> >to cygserver to pull it into the wonderful modern times of per-thread
> >signalling.  I created and uploaded a new developer snapshot to
> >https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ with this change.
> >
> >Please give it a try and report back.
> 
> the latest snapshots solve a long standing issue with postgres
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140202181323.8089.65410@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Excellent, so the patch fixed more than one problem.  I'm wondering how
many applications using XSI IPC were affected by this long-standing bug.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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