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Subject:	Re: Anamoly with ioctl() in cygwin 1.7.10
Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:35:54 +0000 (UTC)
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Jon Clugston <jon.clugston <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Don't know if it will fix your problem, but you cannot just create a
> mutex on the stack and call "lock" on it.  You must initialize it with
> "pthread_mutex_init()".
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
Good catch. I missed that in my haste to scrounge a sample pgm together. With or 
w/out initializing the mutex the anomaly still occurs.

LC




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