cool - I misunderstood. I will try and work up a patch... Andy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:33 PM Subject: Re: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno) > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:14:35PM -0500, Andrew T. Schnable wrote: > >You have a point regarding errno, but unfortunately, this is how the > >standard > >is written. If it's intentional that cygwin deviate from posix 1.b, I'm fine > >with that - I can code accordingly. FYI - I went to the > > > > The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 > > technically identical to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 > > Copyright ? 2001 The IEEE and The Open Group > > > >(because this was easier to find on-line and it should be close enough,) > >and snipped this fragment from the sem_trywait man page... > > I wasn't referring to the specific case that you reported. I was just > referring to my grep which found many cases where an errno value was > being returned. > > As Robert indicated, in the vast majority of those cases, this was, in > fact, the right thing to do. > > It's apparently not the right thing to do in the case of sem_trywait, so > a patch will be required: http://cygwin.com/contrib.html . > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
