I've checked in this change. Thanks.
cgf
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +0100, Torben Nielsen wrote:
>Hi!
>The following code sequence fails (does not wait):
>
> sem_t sem;
> sem_init(&sem, 0, 0);
> sem_wait(&sem);
>
>I believe the reason is found in ./winsup/cygwin/thread.cc line 437 (20001228
>snapshot):
>
> item->win32_obj_id = ::CreateSemaphore (&sec_none_nih, _v, _v, NULL);
>
>The third parameter is the maximum count for the semaphore, and it is not allowed to
>be zero or less
>according to Microsofts documentation. If I replace this line with
>
> item->win32_obj_id = ::CreateSemaphore (&sec_none_nih, _v, LONG_MAX, NULL);
>
>the above example works just fine. If possible, I would like a comment on this.
>
>Regards, Torben Nielsen
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