From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32525 invoked by alias); 17 May 2004 07:36:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32512 invoked from network); 17 May 2004 07:36:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.atlantis.sk) (217.67.18.25) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 May 2004 07:36:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 12635 invoked by uid 99); 17 May 2004 07:37:54 -0000 Received: from proxy.posam.sk (proxy.posam.sk [62.168.66.74]) by mail.atlantis.sk (IMP) with HTTP for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:37:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1084779474.40a86bd279418@mail.atlantis.sk> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 07:36:00 -0000 From: cameni@manabove.org To: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New snapshot 2004-05-16 available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.2 X-Originating-IP: 62.168.66.74 X-Sent-Via: webmail.atlantis.sk X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00063.txt.bz2 We are having problems compiling source from cvs: - seems that ptw32_semwait.c was not added to the cvs - PAPCFUNC isn't declared when _WIN32_WINNT isn't declared implement.h:449 - in pthreads_cancel.c:179, the thread->cancelLock isn't unlocked when WaitForSingleObject returns anything else than WAIT_TIMEOUT (if it terminates earlier during pthread_cancel) brk Ross Johnson wrote: > Dear all, > > Finally there is a new snapshot available that incorporates 99 percent > of the issues raised over the past 8 to 9 months, including some that > had not made it into CVS until today. > > http://source.redhat.com/pthreads-win32 > and > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32 > > > Here are the main changes: > > SNAPSHOT 2004-05-16 > > > Attempt to add Watcom to the list of compilers that can build the library. > This failed in the end due to it's non-thread-aware errno. The library > builds but the test suite fails. See README.Watcom for more details. > > Note: This is probably a result of not defining the appropriate macro. > > Bug fixes > > * Bug and memory leak in sem_init() > - Alex Blanco > > * ptw32_getprocessors() now returns CPU count of 1 for WinCE. > - James Ewing > > * pthread_cond_wait() could be canceled at a point where it should not > be cancelable. Fixed. > - Alexander Terekhov > > * sem_timedwait() had an incorrect timeout calculation. > - Philippe Di Cristo > > * Fix a memory leak left behind after threads are destroyed. > - P. van Bruggen > > > New features > > * Ported to AMD64. > - Makoto Kato > > * True pre-emptive asynchronous cancelation of threads. This is optional > and requires that Panagiotis E. Hadjidoukas's QueueUserAPCEx package be > installed. This package is included in the pthreads-win32 self-unpacking > Zip archive starting from this snapshot. See the README.txt file inside > the package for installation details. Many thanks to Panagiotis for his > assistance in getting the hooks into the library. > > Note: If you don't use async cancelation in your application, or don't need > to cancel threads that are blocked on system resources such as network I/O, > then the default non-preemptive async cancelation is probably good enough. > However, pthreads-win32 auto-detects the availability of these components > at run-time, so you don't need to rebuild the library from source if you > change your mind later. > > All of the advice available in books and elsewhere on the undesirability > of using async cancelation in any application still stands, but this > feature is a welcome addition with respect to the library's conformance to > the POSIX standard. > >