Re: Calling sem_wait() in DllMain( DLL_THREAD_DETACH) crashes

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 15 20:50, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> I did read through the UG looking for a statement like that, but the only
> thing I found was the caveat about mixing POSIX and Win32 calls to set cwd.
> Perhaps I overlooked something, or maybe it would be good if that was more
> clearly documented.
> 
> >> However, it does seem that python (or one of its extensions) is doing
> >> something it shouldn't.
> 
> Given the above clarification about cygwin, this is a bug in libcrypto from
> OpenSSL (which tries to be portable to more than just POSIX, and has a
> DllMain() which is built for both cygwin and Win32), and a patch like that at
> [1] (or perhaps one which avoids DllMain on cygwin entirely) should be applied.

Thanks for the information.  I will look into getting rid of DllMain.
Just like in libiconv, there's no good reason to use this function in
a shared lib for Cygwin.


Corinna

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