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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: shmget failed
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:29:44 -0000
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----Original Message----
>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jennifer Lai 
>Sent: 25 February 2005 19:25

> Hi,
>    I got bad system call error when I tried to compile a program that
> contains the following code,
> 
> shmid = shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, size, IPC_CREAT | 0600);
> where, size = 661552
> 
> At first I thought it has to do with the size, but reducing the size to
> 128 still cause bad system call error.
> Does anyone know what caused shmget to fail?


  Yes, *you* do.  Check errno.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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