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RE: cygserver debug output patch



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Conrad Scott
> Sent: Friday, 14 June 2002 2:39 PM

> The SVID and the Linux/NetBSD implementations also provide an 
> errno (EIDRM),
> which is returned by shmat(2) when attempting to attach to a 
> deleted segment
> (i.e. "identifier removed"). This presumably can only be 
> returned during
> this pending period, as otherwise you would get EINVAL, which 
> supports this
> interpretation.
> 
> So, it seems we're back where we started, which is lucky 'cos 
> it's probably
> easier to implement on win32 :-)

Good.
 
> So unless there is something in Posix / Open Group / Single 
> Unix / ... that
> explicitly changes this behaviour, I guess we should go with 
> the traditional
> interpretation of the SVID definition. Seem okay?

Please do, it looks like that's what I had done :}.

Rob


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