On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:45:18AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi all, > >for the functions (thread.cc): >int __pthread_setcancelstate (int state, int *oldstate) >int __pthread_setcanceltype (int type, int *oldtype) >can somebody add the checking whether the pointers oldstate and oldtype are >nill pointers? > >The Linux man page says that the previous state/type is not saved when the >pointer is zero. >Currently we get the annoying SIGSEGV crash when the old state/type is >written to address 0x0.
How about trying a patch for this behavior? It sounds like it would be trivial and you would be helping out the pthreads developer. http://cygwin.com/contrib.html There is no need for an assignment in this case since the patch should be both obvious and trivial. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
