Re: Question about flock - potential memory corruption?

[Qian Hong <fracting at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

Attach is the simple test case I use to reproduce the valgrind warning
and random failures.

Compile the test case in Cygwin with below command line:
$ gcc -g -O0 flock.c -o flock.exe

Thanks!

/***********************************************************************
 * This is a STC that causes the following error on my test machine:
 *   NtCreateEvent(lock): 0xC0000035
 *
 * It tries to use flock() for file locking. It creates a temporary
 * file, the uses fork to spawn a number of children. Each child opens
 * the file, then repeatedly uses flock to lock and unlock it.
 *
 * This test was extracted from the APR test suite.
 *
 * Compile: gcc -Wall -o stc-flock-fork stc-flock-fork.c
 ***********************************************************************/

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>

#define MAX_ITER 2000
#define CHILDREN 6

/* A temporary file used for flock. */
char tmpfilename[] = "/tmp/flocktstXXXXXX";

int main(int argc, const char * const * argv, const char * const *env)
{
    int fd;
 
    /* Create the temporary file. */
    fd = mkstemp(tmpfilename);
    if (fd < 0) {
        perror("open failed");
        exit(1);
    }
    close(fd);
	int fd2 = open(tmpfilename, O_RDONLY);
	int rc;
	int i;
	rc = flock(fd2, LOCK_EX);
	return 0;
}

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