Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 7/5/2007 10:30 AM: Sending a copy of it to one support tech to debug that vendor's library does not constitute distribution, AFAICT. Utterly comprehensively wrong. Sorry. The only thing that does not constitute

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 06:31:23AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Although in GPLv3, there is a new clause in section 2 that does not have a [snip] IANAL, but [snip...] I'd hoped that this rathole discussion would disappear but apparently it's hard to resist the lure of the IANAL but. The OP has

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-06 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:48 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: If I read

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I have a POS emulation program written in C. It uses two threads, two condition variables and a mutex. One thread receives from a serial port, the other sends. The condition variables and mutex are used to create a

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 15:11, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I have a complex system with multiple interactions that a rough overview of is utterly inadequate to attempt to diagnose complicated interlocking or race problems. Is this a known issue? What, your program having a bug? Nope,

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:54 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 15:11, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: If I read this right, you are saying there are no reported conflicts in pthread resources between multiple processes. That is all I wanted to know. I don't like to waste time diagnosing known problems and then be told much later that there is an

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 16:16, Bob McConnell wrote: But unless you can http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST, you're just holding up a black box and saying There's magic stuff in here and it's broke, does anyone know why, to which the only answer is of course Depends what the magic stuff in the box is

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:59 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Bob McConnell

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:48 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: If I read

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 16:16, Bob McConnell wrote: But unless you can

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: All of the timing is based on the serial data being exchanged with the host system. Without that interaction, there is nothing left to examine. Without testing it you have no way of knowing whether that is important or not. It could be that

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: Sending a copy of it to one support tech to debug that vendor's library does not constitute distribution, AFAICT. Utterly comprehensively wrong. Sorry. Really? You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of