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7 GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
12 This is a list of user-visible and/or major changes to GNU Pth.
13 For more details please have a look at the ChangeLog file.
15 Changes between 1.4 and 2.0 (24-Mar-2001 to 17-Feb-2003)
17 *) Make pth_poll(3) more compliant to POSIX.1-2001/SUSv3 poll(2).
18 *) Make pth_select(3) more compliant to POSIX.1-2001/SUSv3 select(2).
19 *) Replaced pth_event_occurred() with pth_event_status().
20 *) Add Autoconf option --with-fdsetsize=NUM for enlarging FD_SETSIZE.
21 *) Added thread attribute PTH_ATTR_DISPATCHES.
22 *) Added sub-API pth_uctx_* for user-space context switching.
23 *) Add a Pth variant of the new POSIX pselect(2) function.
24 *) Internally cleaned up the error handling macros.
25 *) Added POSIX-compliant sanity checks for bad fds.
26 *) Added pth_nanosleep() function.
27 *) Allow a NULL name for pth_msgport_create()
28 *) Completely rewrote the "hard syscall mapping".
29 *) Added support to pth_poll(3) for POLLD{RD,WR}{NORM,BAND}.
30 *) Fixed a long-standing termination bug in pth_exit(3).
31 *) Upgraded to Autoconf 2.57, Shtool 1.6.2 and Libtool 1.4.3.
32 *) Add optional support for OSSP ex based exception handling.
34 Changes between 1.3 and 1.4 (19-Feb-2000 to 24-Mar-2001)
36 *) Support for non-standard but required <sys/select.h> header
37 *) New if-clause feature for config.param files
38 *) Added RPM specification (pth.spec) to source tree
39 *) Additional I/O functions pth_{recv,recvfrom,send,sendto}[_ev]()
40 *) Additional replacement function pth_system()
41 *) New self-contained pth_[v][a]sprintf() replacement functions
42 *) Upgrade to GNU shtool 1.5.2 and GNU libtool 1.3.5
43 *) Support for DESTDIR installation variable
45 Changes between 1.2 and 1.3 (31-Oct-1999 to 19-Feb-2000)
47 *) Better detection and support for Unix platform differences
48 *) More complete support for hard syscall wrapping
49 *) Memory debugging support via Dmalloc library and --with-dmalloc
50 *) Added a PTH_CTRL_DUMPSTATE to pth_ctrl()
51 *) Removed PTH_EVENT_PID and enhanced PTH_EVENT_FUNC
52 *) First cut for Win32/CygWin support
53 *) New `make striptease' feature for developers
54 *) New pth.m4 file for using Pth inside Autoconf based packages
55 *) New large pthread.pod manual page which contains full Pthread API
56 *) Fixed numerious memory leaks
57 *) Numerous bugfixes and cleanups
59 Changes between 1.1 and 1.2 (19-Aug-1999 to 31-Oct-1999)
61 *) Switched to GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1
62 *) Optimized signal mask handling to speed up dispatching
63 *) Lots of build environment enhancements and bugfixes
64 *) Support for POSIX socklen_t and nfds_t types in API
65 *) Allow the compilation even with a strict C++ compiler
66 *) Enhanced portability to support even more platforms
67 *) Added config.param facility
68 *) Enhanced `make test' facility.
70 Changes between 1.0 and 1.1 (03-Aug-1999 to 19-Aug-1999)
72 *) Fixed and enhanced POSIX semantics for replacement functions
73 *) Cleaned up source tree
74 *) Overhauled Autoconf environment
75 *) Enhanced setjmp/longjmp support
76 *) Support for SVR4/SUSv2 makecontext(2) mctx variant
77 *) Barrier synchronization objects
78 *) Sfio support via special Pth/Sfio discipline
79 *) Overhauled filedescriptor handling
81 Changes between 0.9 and 1.0 (Feb-1999 to 03-Aug-1999)
83 *) Added support for readv(2) and writev(2)
84 *) Added support for poll(2) facility
85 *) System Call Mapping (soft=#define & hard=syscall)
86 *) Cleanup support for forking (atfork)
87 *) Enhanced event handling
88 *) Added POSIX.1c pthread emulation library
89 *) New API for manipulating pth_attr_t objects
90 *) Per-thread signal delivery