Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:19:49 -0500 From: Jason Tishler To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Signal Handler Overwrites errno (or YACPP) Message-ID: <20001228091949.A260@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin References: <20001227115900.B251@dothill.com> <20001227141119.A1329@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001227141119.A1329@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:11:19PM -0500 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. Chris, On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:11:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > It's extremely unlikely that the year-old post that you copied has any > bearing on this problem. I was skeptical about the relevance of a year-old post too, but was thrown by the following: On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:51:27 -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > So, now, in some situations, I save the errno for restoration when > a signal handler returns. I thought that may be select() was not included in the "some situations" mentioned above. > I've written a simple test case to verify that cygwin is saving and restoring > errno correctly and it seems to work fine. Reading the PostgreSQL postmaster.c CVS log, it appears that this problem was recently found and corrected. Thanks for setting me straight and sorry for wasting your time. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple