X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:20:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: STC for libapr1 failure Message-ID: <20120215212010.GA4183@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F3A14A8.4090506@acm.org> <20120214140240.GB25918@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120214144551.GC25918@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F3AA0BB.7000806@acm.org> <20120214182452.GK25918@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F3AD58A.9040106@acm.org> <20120215153851.GQ25918@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F3C09D9.6000406@acm.org> <20120215204521.GB27454@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F3C208B.2060007@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F3C208B.2060007@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Feb 15 13:15, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 2/15/2012 12:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 15 11:39, David Rothenberger wrote: > >> On 2/15/2012 7:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>> Did I mention that I hate synchronization problems? Anyway, I think I > >>> found the problem. I applied a patch which fixes the problem for me > >>> and, surprise!, the flock test still runs fine, too. I've just uploaded > >>> a new snapshot. Please give it a try. > >> > >> All the procmutex tests pass now! Awesome! > >> > >> But... now one of the flock tests is failing. It takes a while to > >> extract a STC from the APR test suite because everything is written in > >> APR-ese and I have to convert every APR call into the base C library > >> calls. I'll work on that over the next day or three. > >> > >> The gist of the test that's failing is this: > >> > >> * Create a file. > >> * Get an exclusive flock on it. > >> * Spawn a child process that attempts to get an exclusive, non-blocking > >> lock on the file. > >> > >> The test is expecting that the child will not be able to get the lock, > >> but the child is able to. > > > > Did I really mention that I hate synchronization problems? > > Yeah, you mentioned it. :-) > > > Does it fork/exec or does it only exec? > > Looks like fork/exec. execv to be precise. > > > I guess I really need the testcase. > > I'll try to work on that tonight. Thanks. Btw., does that testcase fail in 1.7.9 as well? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple