2.3.0: possible Cygwin flock bug (Windows 10 x86_64)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 16 11:24:00 GMT 2015


On Nov 13 13:25, Mario Roy wrote:
> Hello Corinna,
> 
> I am writing to confirm that file locking, with MCE 1.608, utilizing
> the development snapshot 2015-11-12 x86_64 is passing 100%. I ran
> through other test cases including mixing threads and child processes.

Thanks for testing and confirming.  I uploaded the new Cygwin 2.3.1
already on Saturday.

> [...]
> MCE 1.700 in Github runs well with channel locking across the board.
> However, being able to obtain a shared lock (possible with file
> locking) at the application level is nice. Seeing the above example
> work makes me confident in bringing back file locking and know that it
> will work across platforms including Cygwin.

Sounds good.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Red Hat
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