Re: 3.4.6-1 shm_open always returns -1, errno EINVAL

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com>]

Hi Matthew,

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 07:44, Matthew Rickard  wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Cygwin 3.4.6-1 shm_open seems to reject all calls, returning  the value
> -1 and setting errno to 22 EINVAL.
>
> For example, this program:
>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main() {
>    int res = shm_open("123", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666);
>    int error = errno;
>    printf("res=%d errno=%d\n", res, errno);
>    if (error == EINVAL)
>      printf("That's EINVAL\n");
>    return 0;
> }
>
> Says:
>
> $ gcc -Og -o tiny tiny.c; ./tiny
> res=-1 errno=22
> That's EINVAL
>

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/shm_open.3.html  says:

For portable use, a shared memory object should be identified by
       a name of the form /somename; that is, a null-terminated string
       of up to NAME_MAX (i.e., 255) characters consisting of an initial
       slash, followed by one or more characters, none of which are
       slashes.

Changing the shm_open call to

shm_open("/123", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666);

returns 3 and sets errno to zero.

Csaba
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