X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=XWlGg2y9/Pegb/QmuDLvsSTxyq1wLlji1+x8580NYnX /crBqvA7YeA5DrY2AQUFdqFAcjwyzw1jnwM9SSk4TuzWKVHBWNSZM8Yxr+lRo2X4 cxEo7BGQrz4KHpSQFTjiHyd++o84cTtn78MSrrYi2tIAhq7rfWwe/0x3WhASRG1Q = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=VG1qg4zZGvH3HBTIsohyFp0x/nQ=; b=CeEi1FZnWpiiPi4Tb jYrw0EHTU4u1RflyWj8u3YuzeL1HSU4/Yfy9sfNLb/AzZO2sAMK82tHVWN+7VmlF Mpk3itg1qcJDtikkIqhGBN7uuSaAkyTh5uAKyDclIaoZx4ke6ySusq1sgrF/NGqu xk3wFXnWp7Arok/mnTHIfd/GVk= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: bureau81.ns.utoronto.ca Message-ID: <524182BA.3050002@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:16:58 -0700 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sem_getvalue returns the semaphore count, while not setting the actual semaphore counter References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 24/09/2013 5:04 AM, Tue Henriksen wrote: > problems with sem_getvalue function > On success, it should return 0, otherwise -1. However, it looks like the function lately has been changed so it now returns the semaphore count, and leaves '*sval' unchanged. A patch to fix this was submitted recently [1], you might want to see whether the current snapshot has the fix yet [2]. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2013-q3/msg00006.html [2] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Ryan -- 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