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RE: cygserver debug output patch
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Conrad Scott'" <Conrad dot Scott at dsl dot pipex dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:26:25 +1000
- Subject: 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