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Re: Last pre-vacation patch (was Re: STC for libapr fcntl failure)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: Last pre-vacation patch (was Re: STC for libapr fcntl failure)
- References: <517AA478 dot 3010904 at acm dot org> <20130426183351 dot GA9116 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <51A259A4 dot 3080909 at acm dot org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On May 26 11:51, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 4/26/2013 11:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 26 08:59, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >> The libapr1 tests are failing for Cygwin 64-bit when trying to use
> >> fcntl(3) for process mutexes. Calling fcntl() to acquire the lock
> >> currently fails with a "lock: Bad address" error.
> >>
> >> I've attached a simple test case that demonstrates the problem. Just
> >> run "make" to build and run it.
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > this is a bug in newlib which defines fcntl as a function taking three
> > int parameters, rather than two ints and the rest as variadic args
> > as it would have been correct.
> >
> > I worked around that in Cygwin for now(*) and I'm uploading a new
> > 1.7.19-3 package while I'm writing this mail. Should be available
> > in 10 minutes or so.
> >
> > (*) Actually, that will be the final fix for Cygwin. Nevertheless, I
> > would be glad if you could nudge me after my vacation again, to
> > remind me that this problem also needs a newlib fix.
> >
>
> Nudge
Thanks!
Corinna
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