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Re: Cygwin IPC - ftok() returns negative values - Bug Report


On Jun 29 13:14, StanisÅaw Wawszczak wrote:
> Dear All,
> Â
> I have had to compile sblim-sfcbd-1.4.10 on Cygwin. It is using IPC semaphores.
> Unfortunately it is returning wrong value as the result of complicated bit-wise logical operations.
> I have tried to âhack the systemâ and make multiplication of returned value by -1, but it triggers error in semget()
> Environment:
> Windows 2012 R2 with latest patches
> I have installed Cygwin from official installer couple days ago.
> Â
> I have attached the gdb session from such invocation. You can see the path and id in arguments are correct and stat() function returns correct values.
> Finally result in %rax is negative:
> raxÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 0xaf0b000701cc1d53ÂÂÂÂÂÂ -5833568862233420461

Ok,  but what's the exact problem?  Following a GDB session is kind
of a lot of work.  Simple, very short, self-contained testcase, perhaps?


Corinna

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