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1.7.9: spawn brakes reopening of serial port


Hallo,

it seems that spawning a process brakes the reopening of a serial port (when done during the execution of that process). The result of the open() function is "Permission denied (13)" in that case.

How to test:
Run the following code ;)
TestSharedMemProc is the process that should be spawned by TestSharedMem (yes, the name is misleading, but it's just a test...).

First I had shm_open under investigation for my problem, because sometimes I got a "Bad Address" (EFAULT, 14) error, but I couldn't reproduce it with a small program and I'm not sure if the problem is somehow connected to the serial port problem. In my original program I got it when opening the shared memory in the spawned (child) process. The shared memory was created in the parent process first and did exist in /dev/shm.
shm_open() returning EFAULT seems to be cygwin specific; what could have caused it? Maybe with a hint in the right direction I might be able to reproduce the error as well.

Thanks,
Manuel

/*
 ============================================================================
 Name        : TestSharedMem.c
 ============================================================================
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define COMPORT_NAME      "/dev/com1"
#define SPAWN_FILE_NAME   "./TestSharedMemProc.exe"

int serialportHandle = -1;

int SC_Close()
{
  if( serialportHandle >= 0 )
  {
    fprintf(stdout, "Closing handle %d.\n", serialportHandle);
    if( close(serialportHandle) < 0 )
    {
      fprintf(stdout, "Couldn't close COM-Port: %s :%d \n",sys_errlist[errno],errno);
      return 3;
    }
  }
  serialportHandle = -1;

  return 0;
}

int SC_Open()
{

  // Close any already open connections first
  if( serialportHandle >= 0)
  {
    fprintf(stdout, "Open called before closing the port. Closing the port now.\n");
    SC_Close();
  }

  // Call open to open a port
  serialportHandle = open(COMPORT_NAME, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK );
  if( serialportHandle < 0 )
  {
    fprintf(stdout, "Couldn't open COM-Port (%s): %s :%d \n",COMPORT_NAME,sys_errlist[errno],errno);
    return 4;
  }

  fprintf(stdout, "Opened port %s (handle %d).\n", COMPORT_NAME, serialportHandle);

  return 0;
}

int main(void) {
	puts("TestSharedMem");
	int error;

  error = SC_Open();
  if (error != 0)
  {
    printf("first open(COM port %s) failed.\n", COMPORT_NAME);
  }

  // Spawn
  //int pid = spawnl(_P_WAIT, SPAWN_FILE_NAME, "TestSharedMemProc", NULL);
  int pid = spawnl(_P_NOWAITO, SPAWN_FILE_NAME, "TestSharedMemProc", NULL);
  if (pid == -1)
  {
    printf( "Failed to create process: %s %d\n", sys_errlist[errno],errno);
  }
  //sleep(2); // If the process closes before the next SC_Open, it works.

  error = SC_Open();
  if (error != 0)
  {
    printf("second open(COM port %s) failed.\n", COMPORT_NAME);
  }

  SC_Close();

  puts("Done (TestSharedMem).");

	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

/*
 ============================================================================
 Name        : TestSharedMemProc.c
 ============================================================================
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void) {
	puts("TestSharedMemProc");

  sleep(1); // This process must be running when
            // opening the COM port the second time
            // -> maybe you need to increase the time

  puts("Done (TestSharedMemProc).");

	return 0;
}

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