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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:11:53 -0400
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin1.dll startup and GDB
Message-ID:	<19990427221153.A28137@cygnus.com>
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In-Reply-To:	<199904280206.WAA05486@envy.delorie.com>; from DJ Delorie on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:06:24PM -0400

Maybe this will fix things.

There's no need to call OpenFileMapping with a NULL pointer so
don't do it.

cgf

Index: shared.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/cvsfiles/devo/winsup/shared.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -p -r1.55 shared.cc
--- shared.cc	1999/04/01 03:56:55	1.55
+++ shared.cc	1999/04/28 02:10:52
@@ -49,11 +49,15 @@ open_shared (const char *name, HANDLE &s
 
   if (!shared_h)
     {
-      char *mapname = name ? shared_name (name, 0) : NULL;
-
-      shared_h = OpenFileMappingA (FILE_MAP_READ | FILE_MAP_WRITE,
-				   TRUE, mapname);
-
+      char *mapname;
+      if (!name)
+	mapname = NULL;
+      else
+	{
+	  mapname = shared_name (name, 0);
+	  shared_h = OpenFileMappingA (FILE_MAP_READ | FILE_MAP_WRITE,
+				       TRUE, mapname);
+	} 
       if (!shared_h &&
 	  !(shared_h = CreateFileMappingA ((HANDLE) 0xffffffff,
 					   &sec_all,

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