Hi Micha,
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Micha Lenk <mi...@lenk.info> wrote:
>
> Sorry, took me a while to give your patch a try. As the patch didn't
> apply cleanly to trunk (ie. SVN rev. 1676013), I assume that it is
> already applied in trunk. So I went ahead without applying your patch.
> Is this correct?
Yes, links point to svn commits in trunk.
>
> I wrote a small test program that should prove me that timed global
> locks work across process boundaries (see attached source). But for some
> reason apr_global_mutex_unlock() return 1 if called in the child
> process. This is the output that I get from the compiled test program:
>
> Trying to get locked mutex... timed out after 1 second (expected)
> Child trying to unlock the mutex got 1 (unexpected)
> Trying to get locked mutex... timed out after 2 seconds (unexpected)
>
> Did I do anything wrong?
A mutex must be unlocked by the thread which locked it (error 1 is EPERM).
Thus you can:
lock()
if fork() == 0:
lock()
else:
unlock()
but not:
lock()
if fork() == 0:
unlock()
else:
lock()
Regards,
Yann.
