Last pre-vacation patch (was Re: STC for libapr fcntl failure)

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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