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____ _ _ | _ \| |_| |__ ``Nothing travels faster than the speed | |_) | __| '_ \ of light with the possible exception of | __/| |_| | | | bad news, which obeys its own special laws.'' |_| \__|_| |_| -- Douglas Adams GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads NEWS ==== This is a list of user-visible and/or major changes to GNU Pth. For more details please have a look at the ChangeLog file. Changes between 1.4 and 2.0 (24-Mar-2001 to 17-Feb-2003) *) Make pth_poll(3) more compliant to POSIX.1-2001/SUSv3 poll(2). *) Make pth_select(3) more compliant to POSIX.1-2001/SUSv3 select(2). *) Replaced pth_event_occurred() with pth_event_status(). *) Add Autoconf option --with-fdsetsize=NUM for enlarging FD_SETSIZE. *) Added thread attribute PTH_ATTR_DISPATCHES. *) Added sub-API pth_uctx_* for user-space context switching. *) Add a Pth variant of the new POSIX pselect(2) function. *) Internally cleaned up the error handling macros. *) Added POSIX-compliant sanity checks for bad fds. *) Added pth_nanosleep() function. *) Allow a NULL name for pth_msgport_create() *) Completely rewrote the "hard syscall mapping". *) Added support to pth_poll(3) for POLLD{RD,WR}{NORM,BAND}. *) Fixed a long-standing termination bug in pth_exit(3). *) Upgraded to Autoconf 2.57, Shtool 1.6.2 and Libtool 1.4.3. *) Add optional support for OSSP ex based exception handling. Changes between 1.3 and 1.4 (19-Feb-2000 to 24-Mar-2001) *) Support for non-standard but required <sys/select.h> header *) New if-clause feature for config.param files *) Added RPM specification (pth.spec) to source tree *) Additional I/O functions pth_{recv,recvfrom,send,sendto}[_ev]() *) Additional replacement function pth_system() *) New self-contained pth_[v][a]sprintf() replacement functions *) Upgrade to GNU shtool 1.5.2 and GNU libtool 1.3.5 *) Support for DESTDIR installation variable Changes between 1.2 and 1.3 (31-Oct-1999 to 19-Feb-2000) *) Better detection and support for Unix platform differences *) More complete support for hard syscall wrapping *) Memory debugging support via Dmalloc library and --with-dmalloc *) Added a PTH_CTRL_DUMPSTATE to pth_ctrl() *) Removed PTH_EVENT_PID and enhanced PTH_EVENT_FUNC *) First cut for Win32/CygWin support *) New `make striptease' feature for developers *) New pth.m4 file for using Pth inside Autoconf based packages *) New large pthread.pod manual page which contains full Pthread API *) Fixed numerious memory leaks *) Numerous bugfixes and cleanups Changes between 1.1 and 1.2 (19-Aug-1999 to 31-Oct-1999) *) Switched to GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 *) Optimized signal mask handling to speed up dispatching *) Lots of build environment enhancements and bugfixes *) Support for POSIX socklen_t and nfds_t types in API *) Allow the compilation even with a strict C++ compiler *) Enhanced portability to support even more platforms *) Added config.param facility *) Enhanced `make test' facility. Changes between 1.0 and 1.1 (03-Aug-1999 to 19-Aug-1999) *) Fixed and enhanced POSIX semantics for replacement functions *) Cleaned up source tree *) Overhauled Autoconf environment *) Enhanced setjmp/longjmp support *) Support for SVR4/SUSv2 makecontext(2) mctx variant *) Barrier synchronization objects *) Sfio support via special Pth/Sfio discipline *) Overhauled filedescriptor handling Changes between 0.9 and 1.0 (Feb-1999 to 03-Aug-1999) *) Added support for readv(2) and writev(2) *) Added support for poll(2) facility *) System Call Mapping (soft=#define & hard=syscall) *) Cleanup support for forking (atfork) *) Enhanced event handling *) Added POSIX.1c pthread emulation library *) New API for manipulating pth_attr_t objects *) Per-thread signal delivery