RFC: Hybrid (wineserver / process-local) native semaphores

[Daniel Santos]

On 09/12/2015 02:15 AM, Daniel Santos wrote:
> On 09/11/2015 05:52 AM, Chiitoo wrote:
>>
>> Glad if I can be of any help!
>>
>> I tried the new set, but I'm still seeing the same issue here. I'll 
>> see if I can spot anything helpful in comparing server/ntdll traces, 
>> though considering how talkative those can be, I'm not too hopeful. :]
>>
>> Any other ideas in the meantime?
>>
>>
> Well this is turning out rather odd. This basically only happens when 
> running a 32-bit program and using a build of wine that has both the 
> 32 & 64 bit. So the server is running in 64 bits and the client in 32 
> in this case and the tests also fail. When running the 64 bit tests 
> (on the 64 bit server) or 32 bit tests on a 32 bit server all is well, 
> so there is something I'm not managing correctly in between.
>
> Daniel
>
do'h! I found the problem. Apparently you cannot use the posix library 
to open a semaphore in a 32-bit program that you created in a 64-bit 
program -- it doesn't assure that you're speaking the same ABI. I'm 
really rather relieved that the problem isn't something more deeply buried.

Daniel