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Re: cygipc-1.11 SHM-patch: fork, handling in ipc-daemon


Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Haubenwallner" <michael.haubenwallner@salomon.at>
> > - It is not clear what happens in following circumstance:
> >   1) the first process creates a shm
> >   2) a second one attaches to it
> >   3) now the second process dies without detaching
> >   4) the first process removes the shm with shmctl(IPC_RMID),
> >      but the ipc-daemon was sleeping and did not remove the
> >      second attachment-entry early enough to have shm_nattch==0,
> >      which must be the case in shmctl() to really remove the shm
> >      by the caller of shmctl(IPC_RMID).
> >
> >   What IMHO surely not should happen is that a shmid with
> >   shm_nattch==0 remains with having the destroy-flag set.
> >   So the ipc-daemon must remove a shm in this state,
> >   including the tmp-file.
> 
> In this case, the daemon should wait on all the processes that are
> attached, so it gets woken up when a process quits. Alternatively, you
> could queue the removal, prevent now attachments, and when the second
> process termination is 'noticed' perform the removal.
> 
> Rob

I forgot to say that the removal _is_ done with this patch by the
daemon when the second process (meaning the last attached process)
terminates, which is the 'alternative' way in your description.

haubi

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