Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/08/29/18:55:33
On Aug 27 15:27, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 8/27/2011 1:37 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 26 13:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Aug 25 17:39, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >>> For a while now, the test cases that come with libapr1 have been
> >>> bombing with this message:
> >>>
> >>> *** fatal error - NtCreateEvent(lock): 0xC0000035
> >>>
> >>> I finally took some time to investigate and have extracted a STC
> >>> that demonstrates the problem.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for the testcase. In theory, the NtCreateEvent call should
> >> not have happened at all, since it's called under lock, and the code
> >> around that should have made sure that the object doesn't exist at the
> >> time.
> >>
> >> After a few hours of extrem puzzlement, I now finally know what happens.
> >> It's kinda hard to explain.
> >>
> [... very good description of flock problem ...]
> >
> > Please test the latest snapshot. It should fix this problem, as well as
> > a starvation problem with signals (and, fwiw, thread cancel events) in
> > flock, lockf, and POSIX fcntl locks.
>
> The new snapshot runs the flock STC. Thanks!
>
> I've been building libapr1 without F_SETLK support for a while since
> it was also triggering the "NtCreateEvent(lock): 0xC0000035"
> error. Since you mentioned fcntl, I tried re-enabling the fcntl
> mutexes. They still trigger the error.
>
> I've attached a similar STC that uses fcntl instead of flock.
I made a couple more changes to the file locking code to accommodate
POSIX locks as well. Please test the today's developer snapshot,
which I'm just creating.
Thanks,
Corinna
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