getsem cleanup
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Mon Jan 7 08:49:00 GMT 2002
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:41:40AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:03:45AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>My first foray into signals...
>>
>>ChangeLog:
>>
>>2002-01-08 Robert Collins rbtcollins@hotmail.com
>>
>> * sigproc.cc (getsem): Rearrange code to be more readable, and to
>> always output an error if accessing or creating the semaphore fails.
>
>A couple of problems with this:
Oops. Actually, only one problem.
cgf
>If I'm reading the patch correctly, it changes the behavior of cygwin so
>that cygwin will output an error in the case of a failing OpenSemaphore.
>That's not right. The current behavior is correct. The only time you
>should see an error is when the process is creating a semaphore for
>itself. It should always be able to do that.
>
>I'll clean up the code in getsem a little to make this more obvious.
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