408799 - Semaping test failed on Windows.

Status: NEW

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

Description

[Slavomir Katuscak]

From nightly tests:
securitytip/20071217.1/LEIA.2-WINNT5.0_OPT.OBJ

semaping			FAILED

BEGIN TEST: semaping (2007-11-17 02:44:50)

warning: removed shared memory /tmp/counter left over from previous run
warning: removed semaphore /tmp/foo.sem left over from previous run
warning: removed semaphore /tmp/bar.sem left over from previous run
PR_OpenSharedMemory failed (-5974, 8)

END TEST: semaping (2007-11-17 02:44:50)
TEST STATUS: semaping = FAILED (errno 1)

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The test found /tmp/foo.sem and /tmp/bar.sem on Windows?

Comment 2

[Slavomir Katuscak]

Seems that PR_DeleteSharedMemory and PR_DeleteSemaphore passed on Windows for those filenames, although I haven't found /tmp directory on the machine. But our Windows tools supports also paths beginning with '/' character.

Comment 3

[Ray Kiddy]

I got the following on Mac OS X with NSPR version 4.6.8:

$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../dist/lib ./semaping
PR_OpenSemaphore failed (-5992, 0)
$

Then I have to manually delete a "/tmp/counter" file....

Comment 4

[Wan-Teh Chang]

The semaping test failure on Mac OS X is for a different reason.
NSPR interprocess semaphores are not implemented on Mac OS X because
the OS lacks the necessary functions.  This is why PR_OpenSemaphore
fails with error -5992 (PR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED_ERROR).

Comment 5

[Ray Kiddy]

(note: identical comment in bug 307582)

Is there a bug in the system somewhere saying something like 'no implementation of semaphores for Mac'? I searchd for 'semaphore' in any comment and did not find one.

It is possible to do some kind of semaphore on a Mac. So, what is the actual issue? Bug 408799 says there is something missing on the Mac. If so, do you have a radar bug # for a bug with Apple? If there is such a bug, I might be able to track it down with people in Apple.

Comment 6

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Ray: there is no bug report for implementing NSPR interprocess semaphores for Mac.
We need either System V semaphores (semget) or POSIX semaphores (sem_open).
When I worked on NSPR interprocess semaphores, neither existed on Mac OS X.
Since Mac OS X was just released then, it didn't bother me that it lacked those
functions.  It's possible that current versions have Mac OS X have these functions.

If you're interested in fixing the semaphore-related test failures on Mac OS X,
please open a new bug and we'll discuss there.  We can either implement these
functions on Mac OS X or make those tests pass if PR_OpenSemaphore fails with
PR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED_ERROR.  Mozilla clients aren't using PR_OpenSemaphore:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=PR_OpenSemaphore
If you're interested in NSPR because of Mozilla, you don't need to implement
PR_OpenSemaphore.

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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