Re: win95 and pshared mutex support for pthreads

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: win95 and pshared mutex support for pthreads


> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:26:02AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >committed (with passwd.cc not password.cc :] )
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like there are problems with your checkin:
>
> i686-pc-cygwin-g++ -c -g -O2 -MD -fbuiltin ... thread.cc
> /cygnus/src/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc: In member function `void
>    MTinterface::Init(int)':
> /cygnus/src/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc:301: `shm_head'
undeclared (first
>    use this function)
> /cygnus/src/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc:301: (Each undeclared
identifier
>    is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
> make: *** [thread.o] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: ***
[/cygnus/build/win32/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin/new-cygwin1.dll] Error
2
>
> cgf
>

Just answering for the archives. This slipped me by. It's part of a
in-cygwin shmg implementation, put it's not cross process persistent at
this point in time (unless process A exits after process B attaches).

Rob