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Subject: sem_getvalue patch
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 00:56:47 -0400
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Folks,
 
I was seeing how well the latest version of arts compiled under Cygwin,
and noticed that the only real complaint was the lack of sem_getvalue()...
so I took the dive, fetched the latest Cygwin source from CVS, and poked
around to see what needed to be done.
 
With a little effort, I've managed to build a cygwin1.dll that exports
sem_getvalue().  The version of cygwin1.dll that I built seems subtly
hosed, though - while I can compile and run my test program from
within a Windows cmd.exe shell, trying to run bash or ls (and probably
a great many other things) hangs.
 
So, a couple of questions:
 
1) What's wrong with my cygwin1.dll?  Did I miss some special magic
I need to do in addition to adding an export to cygwin.din?
 
2) Assuming that I can resolve the apparent export problem and produce
a working cygwin1.dll, is there any interest in a patch for sem_getvalue()?
Or was it left unimplemented for a reason (other than lack of need/time?)
 
  Thanks,
 
-Samrobb