Pthreads-win32 - New release 2.8.0 is out now

Pthreads-win32 - New release 2.8.0 is out now

[Ross Johnson]

Announcing a new release of pthreads-w32:-
pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release

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

See
http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

or go directly to:
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/

There may be a low ftp concurrent user limit at the above site.
Mirrors are at:
http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html
(available as they update)


RELEASE 2.8.0
-------------
(2006-12-22)

General
-------
New bug fixes in this release since 2.7.0 have not been applied to the
version 1.x.x series. It is probably time to drop version 1.

Testing and verification
------------------------
This release has not yet been tested on SMP architechtures. All tests pass
on a uni-processor system. If someone can run the test suite on an SMP system,
please let the list know of any success or failure.

Bug fixes
---------
* Sem_destroy could return EBUSY even though no threads were waiting on the 
semaphore. Other races around invalidating semaphore structs (internally)
have been removed as well.

* For WinCE, now checks COREDLL.DLL for InterlockedCompareExchange() instead of
KERNEL32.DLL. This used to be the way it was when the library checked for
TryEnterCriticalSection(), which was removed after that routine was
no longer needed. It was omitted when the technique was resurrected later
for the new purpose. Note: there are no pre-built libs for WinCE.

New tests
---------
semaphore5.c - tests the sem_destroy bug fix referred to above.

Thank you for the bug fixes

[Sergey Fokin]

It was annoying bug ;-)

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RE: Pthreads-win32 - New release 2.8.0 is out now

[Tim Theisen]

I ran the test suite on my SMP system and all tests passed.

...Tim
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-----Original Message-----
From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org
[mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Ross Johnson
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 22:05
To: Pthreads-Win32 list
Subject: Pthreads-win32 - New release 2.8.0 is out now

Announcing a new release of pthreads-w32:- pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release

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

See
http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

or go directly to:
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/

There may be a low ftp concurrent user limit at the above site.
Mirrors are at:
http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html
(available as they update)


RELEASE 2.8.0
-------------
(2006-12-22)

General
-------
New bug fixes in this release since 2.7.0 have not been applied to the
version 1.x.x series. It is probably time to drop version 1.

Testing and verification
------------------------
This release has not yet been tested on SMP architechtures. All tests
pass on a uni-processor system. If someone can run the test suite on an
SMP system, please let the list know of any success or failure.

Bug fixes
---------
* Sem_destroy could return EBUSY even though no threads were waiting on
the semaphore. Other races around invalidating semaphore structs
(internally) have been removed as well.

* For WinCE, now checks COREDLL.DLL for InterlockedCompareExchange()
instead of KERNEL32.DLL. This used to be the way it was when the library
checked for TryEnterCriticalSection(), which was removed after that
routine was no longer needed. It was omitted when the technique was
resurrected later for the new purpose. Note: there are no pre-built libs
for WinCE.

New tests
---------
semaphore5.c - tests the sem_destroy bug fix referred to above.