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ossp-pkg/pth/NEWS -> 1.26
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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
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+ GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
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+ 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 1.3 and 1.4 (19-Feb-2000 to xx-Jul-2000)
+
+ *) 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]()
+ *) New self-contained pth_[v][a]sprintf() replacement functions
+ *) Upgrade to GNU shtool 1.5.0 and GNU libtool 1.3.5
+
+ 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
+
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