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Re: /cygdrive in CVS? Time for 1.5.6 soon.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:42:46PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:21:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:57:48AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > I'd like to release 1.5.6 soon and, if this is a real
> > > problem, it is not one that we can ignore.
> >
> > Not within the next hour I hope. I'm currently testing the new fcntl64
> > stuff to support 64 bit file locking. I'd like to see this in 1.5.6, too.
>
> Ok, I've checked this in. I found an interesting thing in the testsuite
> while testing this. The fcntl function is called like this:
>
> flocks.l_type = F_RDLCK | F_WRLCK;
> fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &flocks);
>
> According to SUSv3 and the Linux man pages, the l_type is either one of
> F_RDLCK (shared lock), F_WRLCK (exclusive lock) or F_UNLCK (unlock).
>
> None of these documents describe these values as or'able. Nevertheless
> the testsuite tests fcntl09 and fcntl10 do it like above, which only
> works, if one of F_RDLCK or F_WRLCK is 0. This is a non-portable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...or all valid values are non-overlapping bit values. Which
isn't the case for Cygwin (and, of course, all other newlib based targets).
Corinna
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