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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: flock: cannot set up timer: Invalid argument
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 05:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41eec858fea3a796406875078fe63e55cdc39d79.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR08MB3957781AA97C883116D985E2E99C0@AM6PR08MB3957.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 07:11 +0000, Daniel Abrahamsson wrote:
> After upgrading from util-linux 2.25.2-2 to 2.32.1-1, flock started producing the following error message:
> 
> flock: cannot set up timer: Invalid argument
> 
> This is the test script I am using (which works under 2.25.2-2):
> 
> #!/bin/bash --login
> (
>     echo "Waiting for file lock”
>     flock -x -w 300 200 || exit 1
>     echo “Success”
> ) 200>test.lock
> 
> Ideas?

This appears to be fixed in the latest snapshot.

--
Yaakov



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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-20  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-18  7:12 Daniel Abrahamsson
2019-01-20  5:10 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2019-01-21  7:11   ` Daniel Abrahamsson

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