New pthreads-w32 releases available: versions 2.6.0 and 1.10.0

New pthreads-w32 releases available: versions 2.6.0 and 1.10.0

[Ross Johnson]

Announcing two new releases of pthreads-w32:-
pthreads-w32-2-6-0-release
pthreads-w32-1-10-0-release

Packages are available in self-unpacking zip files (.exe) and gzipped
tar files (.tar.gz) as usual.

See
http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/

or go directly to:
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/

Red Hat have a low ftp concurrent user limit. Mirrors are at:
http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html
(available as they update)


RELEASE 2.6.0
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(2005-05-19)

General
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All of the bug fixes and new features in this release have been
back-ported in release 1.10.0.

To date, version 1 releases remain fully functionally equivalent to
version 2 releases, including all bug fixes and enhanced compliance. The
difference is that the version 1 pthread_once routine may be significantly
less efficient in some situations.

Testing and verification
------------------------
This release has been tested (passed the test suite) on both uni-processor
and multi-processor systems. Thanks to Tim Theisen at TomoTherapy for
exhaustively running the MP tests and for providing crutial observations
and data when faults are detected.

Bugs fixed
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* pthread_detach() now reclaims remaining thread resources if called after
the target thread has terminated. Previously, this routine did nothing in
this case.

New tests
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* detach1.c - tests that pthread_detach properly invalidates the target
thread, which indicates that the thread resources have been reclaimed.


Ross