From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30389 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2006 04:05:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 30379 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2006 04:05:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from humvee.dot.net.au (HELO quokka.dot.net.au) (202.147.68.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:05:09 +0000 Received: from [203.129.45.22] (helo=[203.129.45.22]) by quokka.dot.net.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gxbeb-0002UP-00 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:05:05 +1100 Message-ID: <458B5970.70200@homemail.com.au> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:05:00 -0000 From: Ross Johnson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pthreads-Win32 list Subject: Pthreads-win32 - New release 2.8.0 is out now Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 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.