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RE: Smctl Method Returns Failure.


On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 12 March 2007 15:49, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> On 12 March 2007 15:25, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>
> >>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL>.  Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, neo napster wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We are making calls to Cygserver methods from our applications, the
> >>>> below call we are doing:
> >>>>
> >>>> semctl (int semid, int semnum, int cmd).
> >>>>
> >>>> but the Cygserver is returning Failure from this method. When we kept
> >>>> debugs in Cygserver we got the following message:
> >>>>
> >>>> -1 [22] = semctl ()
> >>>>
> >>>> Can any one suggest on this..
> >>>
> >>> As Corinna mentioned, error 22 == EINVAL, which is sometimes rendered as
> >>> "Bad system call".  For more details, see
> >>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc>.
> >>
> >>   Say, as long as you and "seema r j" are both having trouble with
> >> CygIPC, and since you are both sitting at the same computer
> >> (59.160.129.133), why don't you try and lend each other a hand?
> >
> > Well, I'm certainly not at 59.160.129.133 -- that's about 12 timezones
> > away from me.  That said, ...
>
>   Hey, I was piggybacking.  So sue me!

Perhaps if I can look up a local solicitor...  I hear British courts
distrust American lawyers...
	Igor
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