--- rpl/ChangeLog 2010/09/13 11:58:42 1.49 +++ rpl/ChangeLog 2010/09/14 16:21:21 1.50 @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ * Thu Aug 26 2010 BERTRAND Joël rpl-4.0.19 (RPL/2) +- gnuplot is upgraded to 4.4.1; +- deadlock is fixed in signal handlers: same mutex was used in standard +subroutines (without protected sections by sigprocmask() or pthread_sigmask()) +and signal handlers. A new signal handler specific mutex is added; +- minor bug is fixed in evaluation() subroutine. In { X 0 PI }, PI is a function +that has to be evaluated by ->NUM; - rplfile build process is modify to be sure that rplfile is not modified after rpl build stage (to be sure that rplfile checksum is not modified after rpl compilation); -- struct_thread internal mutex is divided into two mutexes to avoid -a deadlock in signal handlers; - AWK is replaced by rplawk. rplawk is original awk written by Brian Kernighan and renamed; - some workarounds have been written to not use buggy klibc SystemV IPCS. @@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ functions instead of POSIX functions. Th systems that does not provide correct POSIX or SysV semaphores subsystem; - a dirty but not quick patch is written to workaround broken siginfo structures. This patch has been successfully tested. It uses a segment of -shared memory (SysV) and eleven semaphores (Posix or SysV) by process +shared memory (Posix or SysV) and some semaphores (Posix or SysV) by process (Unix PID); - some OpenBSD's hacks are added; - broken siginfo->si_pid field is now checked by configure script;