On 4/26/2013 11:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 26 08:59, David Rothenberger wrote: >> The libapr1 tests are failing for Cygwin 64-bit when trying to use >> fcntl(3) for process mutexes. Calling fcntl() to acquire the lock >> currently fails with a "lock: Bad address" error. >> >> I've attached a simple test case that demonstrates the problem. Just >> run "make" to build and run it. > > Hi David, > > this is a bug in newlib which defines fcntl as a function taking three > int parameters, rather than two ints and the rest as variadic args > as it would have been correct. > > I worked around that in Cygwin for now(*) and I'm uploading a new > 1.7.19-3 package while I'm writing this mail. Should be available > in 10 minutes or so. > > (*) Actually, that will be the final fix for Cygwin. Nevertheless, I > would be glad if you could nudge me after my vacation again, to > remind me that this problem also needs a newlib fix. >
Nudge -- David Rothenberger ---- [email protected] character density, n.: The number of very weird people in the office.
