On Feb 17 17:06, Andrew Mangogna wrote:
> After recently updating to 1.7.10-1 of the Cygwin library I have noticed that
> the invocation of "getitimer()" in my applications is now failing all the
> time. The following program shows the result:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <sys/time.h>
> #include <errno.h>
>
> int
> main(
> int arc,
> char **argv)
> {
> struct itimerval timer ;
>
> int err = getitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &timer) ;
> if (err != 0) {
> printf("getitimer failed: %d, \"%s\"(%d)\n", err, strerror(errno),
> errno) ;
> }
> }
> [...]
> I'm curious if anyone else has seen a problem here. I suspect I'm
> doing something wrong, but this has been working for quite some time
> in the past and getitimer() is petty mundane stuff.
No, you're not doing anything wrong, it's plainly a bug in 1.7.10. A
local variable was not correctly used. Thanks for the report and the
testcase. This should be fixed in CVS.
Corinna
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