Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: atacama.four-d.de: mail set sender to using -f Message-ID: <3EBF5FF8.6000106@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:48:56 +0200 From: Thomas Pfaff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: pthread_signal() references illegal memory address References: <1052726662.1644.19.camel@rufus> In-Reply-To: <1052726662.1644.19.camel@rufus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kern Sibbald wrote: > > By the way, if it wasn't clear, the problem *is* with the pthread_kill() > statement. When it is in the program, the program dies. When I remove > it, the program works (I mean the real program running as a service). > That was the last thing that I added, so it isn't a question of the > culprit being elsewhere. > pthread_kill is broken and has never worked as expected. To fix it the signal code in cygwin must be changed to support multithreaded apps, so do not expect that this will work in the near future. Thomas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/