[RFU][1.3.9-2] pv‏

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  7 16:46, Aaron Schneider wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 10:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Again, Cygwin supports SYSV IPC.  Please inform the original author that
> >the functionality depends on a running cygserver process.  If this
> >process is not running, the SYSV IPC functions return ENOSYS.
> >
> >IMHO there's no reason to exit if the msgget function returns ENOSYS.
> >The code could simply note the fact and proceed, and only return an
> >error if the user tried the -R option.
> >
> 
> The function has not returned ENOSYS, instead the process has
> received a signal, according to gdb's output. This is arguably a bug
> in Cygwin.

No, it isn't.  Calling a non-existant function raises a SIGSYS signal.
That's ok per POSIX (albeit it's an XSI extension).  pv could simply
call signal (SIGSYS, SIG_IGN) and then just fetch the error code
returned from msgget.


Corinna

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