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Re: [TEST] sqlite3-3.7.17-1 (Cygwin 1.7.19 locking feature)


On 6/4/2013 2:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  4 10:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jun  3 17:58, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> On 6/3/2013 1:11 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>>>> This is a big-push attempt at a version of Cygwin SQLite that will make
>>>> everyone happy (ha!) whether they want POSIX advisory locking behavior
>>>> or Windows mandatory locking behavior.  My part of the effort is being
>>>> stubborn on this point and doing the basic testing and packaging.  The
>>>> real magic was added by Corinna to yesterday's 1.7.19 cygwin1.dll snapshot.
>>> [...]
>>> ... initial results with the Subversion test suite (for 1.8.0-rc2) show
>>> that most tests fail with a "sqlite: database is locked (S5)" error
>>> unless CYGWIN_SQLITE_LOCKING=posix.
>>
>> The question now is: Why?
> 
> IOW: It would be nice to have a simple testcase (plain C, only Cygwin
> POSIX calls, self-contained, yada yada) to see what sqlite expects in
> POSIX lock mode.

This may take some time or be completely over my head given all the
layers involved with the Subversion test suite (python bindings,
subversion code, libapr1). I probably won't get to it for a few days or
longer.

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        Never eat anything bigger than your head.

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