raise(-1) has stopped returning an error recently

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 23 19:27, Duncan Roe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 02:06:19PM +0100, cygwin wrote:
> > On Nov 22 11:25, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Nov 22 16:20, Duncan Roe wrote:
> > > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > > #include <signal.h>
> > > >
> > > > int
> > > > main (void)
> > > > {
> > > >   int retcod;
> > > >
> > > >   retcod = raise (-1);
> > > >   printf("raise(-1) returned %d\n", retcod);
> > > > }
> > >
> > > Thanks for the STC.  There are actually two long-standing problems,
> > > one in raise, calling pthread_kill even for non-threaded processes,
> > > one in pthread_kill, not checking the signal number.
> > >
> > > I'll patch them right away.
> >
> > I created a patchset:
> > https://sourceware.org/git?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=d54d8f173d66
> > https://sourceware.org/git?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=24bffff63eb7
> > https://sourceware.org/git?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=afb7c557d2af
> >
> > Please test the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> Thanks, that fixed it.

Thanks for testing.

> Btw to whoever maintains grep for cygwin: 'make check' should pass on
> next release (I patched out the surrogate-pair failre).

Great!  Brian?


Thanks,
Corinna