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 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:04:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: CRAIG SORENSEN cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Shared memory problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; FORMAT=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-ID: Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, CRAIG SORENSEN wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Reply-To: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX > > To: CRAIG SORENSEN > > CC: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX . Thanks. > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, CRAIG SORENSEN wrote: > > > > > I have followed the instructions in the README file and the messages > > > already sent about this subject. The cygserver is set up and running, > > > but I am still getting a Bad system call when I run a simple program > > > with and . What could I be doing wrong? > > > > *Could* be lots of things. Nobody knows which one, though, since you > > haven't posted any details about your system or the program you're > > running. > > > > Please post a complete (preferably short) program that fails for you, > > the commands used to compile it, as well as other relevant details as > > requested in the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at > > , particularly the output of > > "cygcheck -svr". It would also help to know exactly how you've > > configured your cygserver. > > > > Help us help you, > > Igor > > I have attached the cygcheck file and a short program that I have copied > from a tutorial online. I am compiling it as shown here: > > gcc shm_write.c -o shm_write > > There are no errors or warnings when I compile, but whenI go to run, it > says "Bad system call". > > Thanks for the help. Uh-huh. You don't have "server" in your CYGWIN environment variable. Try running your program as "CYGWIN=server ./shm_write". Please re-read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README for more details. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/