I've run into a problem with flock while doing some parallel scripting in bash (also seen in dash) on the latest 64-bit version of Cygwin running on Windows 8.1. In the attached simple test case, the code locks and unlocks a file in a loop. After the first iteration of the loop is completed, this error is thrown:
0 [main] flock 7008 C:\cygwin64\bin\flock.exe: *** fatal error - NtCreateEvent(lock): 0xC0000035 ./test.sh: line 12: 7008 Hangup flock -x 5 However, the problem doesn't occur if I comment out the "while true do" and "done" and call the script file from a while loop in another bash script. I found a similar problem in an older thread (here: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00480.html) which may help to shed some light on the issue, but the inner workings of the locking system is a bit beyond me. My full Cygwin version is "CYGWIN_NT-6.3 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:47", and my cygcheck output is attached along with the STC and flock's stackdump. The cygcheck output has been edited to remove one license server address. Thanks, Kyle R.
stc.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
flock.exe.stackdump
Description: Binary data
cygcheck.out
Description: Binary data
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