Fatal error using flock

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> On Dec  2 14:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Dec  1 23:43, Kyle R. wrote:
>> > I've run into a problem with flock while doing some parallel scripting
>> > in bash (also seen in dash) on the latest 64-bit version of Cygwin
>> > running on Windows 8.1. In the attached simple test case, the code
>> > locks and unlocks a file in a loop. After the first iteration of the
>> > loop is completed, this error is thrown:
>> > 
>> >       0 [main] flock 7008 C:\cygwin64\bin\flock.exe: *** fatal error -
>> > NtCreateEvent(lock): 0xC0000035
>> > ./test.sh: line 12:  7008 Hangup                  flock -x 5
>> 
>> Confirmed.  I'll investigate.
>> 
>> > However, the problem doesn't occur if I comment out the "while true
>> > do" and "done" and call the script file from a while loop in another
>> > bash script.
>> 
>> This sounds like a problem with the parent process holding the event
>> object connected to the lock.  This doesn't happen in the second case,
>> because the parent holding the lock disappeared as well.

> Ouch.  The handle in the parent got created non-inheritable.  That's
> bad if the handle is utilized in subsequent child processes which rely
> on being able to access the handle.

> I applied a patch and created a new developer snapshot on
> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

> Please give it a try.

Works here with original STC.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 03.12.2014, <10:27>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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