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| Date: |
2002-Oct-23 15:55:49 (local)
2002-Oct-23 13:55:49 (UTC) |
| User: | rse |
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Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca> wrote:
> I noticed that pth_msgport_create(), although inspired from the AmigaOS
> API, does not support NULL for port identifyer, which would be very
> useful for thread-specific private message ports (mmftpd uses those and
> unfortunately currently has to generate unique strings to create ports).
> AmigaOS had this functionality...
So, make him happy and allow NULL from now on, too. |
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ossp-pkg/pth/ChangeLog 1.575 -> 1.576
--- ChangeLog 2002/10/20 16:22:03 1.575
+++ ChangeLog 2002/10/23 13:55:49 1.576
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
Changes between 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 (27-Jan-2002 to xx-Oct-2002)
+ *) Allow a NULL name for pth_msgport_create() in order to
+ support locally scoped message ports which are not searched via
+ pth_msgport_find().
+ [Ralf S. Engelschall, Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>]
+
*) Added "hard syscall mapping" support for using
SYS___sigprocmask14 instead of SYS_sigprocmask on NetBSD.
[Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>]
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ossp-pkg/pth/pth.pod 1.154 -> 1.155
--- pth.pod 2002/10/15 20:34:22 1.154
+++ pth.pod 2002/10/23 13:55:49 1.155
@@ -1266,9 +1266,10 @@
=item pth_msgport_t B<pth_msgport_create>(const char *I<name>);
-This returns a pointer to a new message port with name I<name>. The I<name>
-can be used by other threads via pth_msgport_find(3) to find the message port
-in case they do not know directly the pointer to the message port.
+This returns a pointer to a new message port. If name I<name>
+is not C<NULL>, the I<name> can be used by other threads via
+pth_msgport_find(3) to find the message port in case they do not know
+directly the pointer to the message port.
=item void B<pth_msgport_destroy>(pth_msgport_t I<mp>);
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ossp-pkg/pth/pth_msg.c 1.22 -> 1.23
--- pth_msg.c 2002/01/27 11:03:40 1.22
+++ pth_msg.c 2002/10/23 13:55:49 1.23
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@
{
pth_msgport_t mp;
- /* check input */
- if (name == NULL)
- return_errno(NULL, EINVAL);
+ /* Notice: "name" is allowed to be NULL */
/* allocate message port structure */
if ((mp = (pth_msgport_t)malloc(sizeof(struct pth_msgport_st))) == NULL)
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