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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:25:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: Smctl Method Returns Failure.
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<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL>.  Thanks.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, neo napster wrote:

> We are making calls to Cygserver methods from our applications, the
> below call we are doing:
>
> semctl (int semid, int semnum, int cmd).
>
> but the Cygserver is returning Failure from this method. When we kept
> debugs in Cygserver we got the following message:
>
> -1 [22] = semctl ()
>
> Can any one suggest on this..

As Corinna mentioned, error 22 == EINVAL, which is sometimes rendered as
"Bad system call".  For more details, see
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc>.
HTH,
	Igor
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