Semaphore Lock Failed Error

[Achim Gratz]

Meenakshi Pant writes:
> Our program is failing in creating and acquiring lock on the
> semaphore. Created a test program 'semtest.c'. It is creating the
> semaphore using the program semaphore.c. Compiled and executed using
> the latest CYGWIN- 2.4.1. It is failing at line
> 
> if  ((semval = semctl(*id, 1, GETVAL, semctl_arg)) < 0 )
> 
> with error no 22.
> 
> Code for semtest.c and semaphore.c are attached here.

That code doesn't even come close to being compilable, so it's useless as a
test case.

Since you didn't provide cygcheck output: Is cygserver running?


Regards,
Achim.


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