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Re: [64bit] Problem with emacs and shared memory under X11
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:06:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: [64bit] Problem with emacs and shared memory under X11
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 06:18:17PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>On 19/07/2013 18:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 19 12:04, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 7/19/2013 7:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Jul 19 11:22, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>>> Oh yes, that works, and is a bit clearer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for testing. I applied the patch and attributed it to you in
>>>> the ChangeLog since you did all the work anyway.
>>>
>>> There's still the x86 issue that I mentioned earlier. With
>>> cygwin-1.7.21 (as well as today's snapshot), I'm getting a return
>>> value of 0 from shmtest on x86. This is with cygserver not running.
>>> (In fact, cygserver has never been configured on this system, so
>>> there's no /etc/cygserver.conf). Jon reported getting a return
>>> value of 1 using cygwin-1.7.20.
>>
>> I don't recall seeing this testcase. Any chance you can extract an STC
>> to help fixing this? I wonder how this happened anyway. There were no
>> changes in terms of XSI IPC between 1.7.20 and 1.7.21, except for tiny
>> changes for porting to x86_64. What on earth did I screw up this
>> time?!?
>
>shmtest.c was attached to my mail a couple of days ago [1]
>
>This seems to be an unrelated issue. When cygserver is not running, this
>program should receive a SIGSYS and terminate with exit code 140 (128 + signal)
>
>This works correctly on x86_64, but on x86, although the signal is raised,
>something goes wrong and the exit code is 0...
>
>[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00229.html
The exit 0 behavior (which I think was introduced in 1.7.20) should now
be fixed in CVS and, soon, in a snapshot.
cgf