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* [PATCH] Cygwin: sigproc.cc: fix typo in comment describing nprocs
@ 2020-08-27 22:40 Ken Brown
  2020-08-28  8:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ken Brown @ 2020-08-27 22:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-patches

nprocs is the number of children, not the number of deceased children.
The incorrect comment used to apply to a variable nzombies.  The
latter was removed in commit 8cb359d9 in 2004, but the comment was
never updated.
---
 winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
index a5cf73bde..30c799f8c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ char NO_COPY myself_nowait_dummy[1] = {'0'};// Flag to sig_send that signal goes
 #define Static static NO_COPY
 
 
-Static int nprocs;			// Number of deceased children
+Static int nprocs;			// Number of children
 Static char cprocs[(NPROCS + 1) * sizeof (pinfo)];// All my children info
 #define procs ((pinfo *) cprocs)	// All this just to avoid expensive
 					// constructor operation  at DLL startup
-- 
2.28.0


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* Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: sigproc.cc: fix typo in comment describing nprocs
  2020-08-27 22:40 [PATCH] Cygwin: sigproc.cc: fix typo in comment describing nprocs Ken Brown
@ 2020-08-28  8:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2020-08-28  8:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-patches

On Aug 27 18:40, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> nprocs is the number of children, not the number of deceased children.
> The incorrect comment used to apply to a variable nzombies.  The
> latter was removed in commit 8cb359d9 in 2004, but the comment was
> never updated.
> ---
>  winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
> index a5cf73bde..30c799f8c 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ char NO_COPY myself_nowait_dummy[1] = {'0'};// Flag to sig_send that signal goes
>  #define Static static NO_COPY
>  
>  
> -Static int nprocs;			// Number of deceased children
> +Static int nprocs;			// Number of children
>  Static char cprocs[(NPROCS + 1) * sizeof (pinfo)];// All my children info
>  #define procs ((pinfo *) cprocs)	// All this just to avoid expensive
>  					// constructor operation  at DLL startup
> -- 
> 2.28.0

I have this already in the loop together with other changes in that
code snippet.


Thanks,
Corinna

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