====== version history of POSIX::1003
All changes are made by Mark Overmeer, unless stated otherwise.
# . ::FS manual needs cleanup, f.i. split lists of constants
# . the main component of exporter in POSIX::1003 useful enough to become
# a separate module.
# . add epoll/epoll_ctl ? Sys::Syscall
# . add sendfile? Sys::Sendfile
# . add ioctl?
# . add (bsd_)glob with its many flags
# . add POSIX::RT::Semaphore logic?
# . cleanup exampleValue()
version 0.95.1: Mon Aug 26 13:16:28 CEST 2013
Fixes:
- t/28user.t when group is '0' (root) [cpantesters]
this is an installation blocker
version 0.95: Fri Aug 23 16:49:07 CEST 2013
Fixes:
- ::Proc WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are constants, not functions.
- ::Proc W*() functions had wrong prototype
Improvements:
- add ::FdIO::fdopen()
version 0.94_5: Wed Aug 21 13:05:52 CEST 2013
Changes:
- ::Time::strftime() is now charset aware.
Fixes:
- some makes do not work correctly without existing system.c
Improvements:
- add warning about possible overflow of times()
- auto-detect SA_ constants, do not take them from POSIX.pm
- added O_TMPFILE (new in Linux kernel 3.11)
version 0.94_4: Wed Jun 12 15:16:33 CEST 2013
Improvements:
- add ::Fcntl::flock() and ::lockf
- add system/freebsd.c
- the 'return' in "return XSRETURN_UNDEF" is too much [NormW]
- t/32fcntl.t dup test sometimes produces a fh which is >4.
test now more relaxed.
- use "blib" in *.PL
- use FULLPERL, not FULLPERLRUNINST, in Makefile.PL
version 0.94_3: Mon Jun 10 10:00:29 CEST 2013
Improvements:
- add ::Fcntl
- system/mswin32.c
- add EPOLL constants
- add O_ACCMODE
- add "-I." to compile to CC search path
- cpantesters now will show all constants while creating
manual-pages.
version 0.94_2: Fri May 17 10:25:38 CEST 2013
Fixes:
- make setgroups() support optional
- un-trick setre[gu]id confusion caused by CORE/perl.h
Improvements:
- believe CORE/config.h for some settings
version 0.94_1: Thu May 16 14:14:33 CEST 2013
Fixes:
- more carefully return ENOSYS when a function is not supported
by a platform.
- HP-UX compilation improvements [H.Merijn Brand]
Improvements:
- added accidentally missing t/27signals.t
- added POSIX::1003::User and t/28user.t
- added POSIX::1003::Errno and t/29errno.t
version 0.93: Tue Apr 23 09:00:47 CEST 2013
Fixes:
- Netware has no strsignal() [NormW]
- Windows does not unlink existing $dest at rename(), manual.PL [NormW]
- added POSIX::1003::Symbols back to MANIFEST
Improvements:
- Export rename() via ::FS, to document non-compliant behavior on
Windows.
version 0.92: Mon Feb 25 10:50:47 CET 2013
Improvements:
- support strsignal()
rt.cpan.org#72602 [Roger Leigh]
- support for NetWare [NormW]
- add libs to PL scripts to simplify debugging [NormW]
version 0.91: Fri Jan 4 10:26:29 CET 2013
Fixes:
- t/62pathconf.t reduce number of constants expected from at least
10 to at least 5 (Darwin has 9)
reported by [James Keenan]
- Darwin use rlimit64 [James Keenan]
- Old Linux does not support ulimit(setfsize) [James Keenan]
- t/64pathconf.t now uses _PC_LINK_MAX, because _PC_PATH_MAX is
undef on many platforms [H.Merijn Brand]
- t/63properties.t now uses _POSIX_VERSION, because _POSIX_NO_TRUNC
is not defined on HP-UX [H.Merijn Brand]
- t/70lazy.t still used POSIX::3
- POSIX/3* files got accidentally packaged as well
version 0.90: Wed Aug 8 10:10:46 CEST 2012
After advice from the Dutch Perl Mongers, the following major changes:
- renames:
POSIX::1003 -> POSIX::1003::Module
POSIX::3 -> POSIX::1003
POSIX::3::Symbols -> POSIX::1003::Symbols
- remove POSIX::1003::Symbols from MANIFEST
version 0.13: Thu Jul 26 13:37:37 CEST 2012
- export tag ':table' became ':tables'
- dynamically detect constants for FdIO, adding SEEK_HOLE and
SEEK_DATA when availale.
- dynamically detect S_* and *_OK constants for ::FS, removes
the need for Fcntl
- moved ::FdIO::readfd_all and ::writefd_all into separate module
POSIX::Util.
- add pod tester
- add ::FdIO::rewindfd
version 0.12: Fri May 18 14:05:11 CEST 2012
- indent manual text about missing configuration.
- setrlimit and ulimit do not always have rights on Linux.
Changed in tests t/64ulimit.t and t/65rlimit.t [cpantesters]
version 0.11: Wed Jan 4 13:56:04 CET 2012
- POSIX::1003::exampleValue($name) as generic way to demonstrate
values for constants
- generate signal names via auto-detection, not a static list
- POSIX::3::show_posix_names() also show their example values
- manuals.PL uses new exampleValue() interface
- ::Limit did not define export tag :constants
- export problem with _POSIX2 properties
- minor tweeks to output of parameter tables
version 0.10: Wed Jan 4 11:26:12 CET 2012
- ::Signals split export tag :signals into :signals and :states
- let signal names be auto-detected as well.
version 0.09: Wed Jan 4 10:14:57 CET 2012
- ::Overview: Signal::More absorbed by POSIX::RT::Signal
[Leon Timmermans]
- rewrite manual.PL to be more flexible.
- use '_' prototype on math functions [Abeltje]
- do re-export each symbol on each request, not lazy
[John van Krieken]
- fix processing of poll constants into a manpage.
version 0.08: Thu Dec 29 03:52:09 CET 2011
- fix poll_table and related manual
- fix exporting of UL_, RLIMIT_ and POLL
- include table in ::Properties
- store generated constant functions in the namespace for reuse
version 0.07: Wed Dec 28 12:16:03 CET 2011
- serious manual-page documentation order problem repaired
- manuals.PL had an ^=comment in a here-document, which
caused it to produce a manual-page in metacpan/search.cpan
- add ::Events ... poll() needs testing!
version 0.06: Sun Dec 25 23:52:57 CET 2011
- getrlimit and setrlimit code was missing from 1003.xs as
fallback when missing from the OS.
- variable info insertion in manual page seems only to work
when both lib and blib version of the page get modified.
- use variable tables also for the other manuals
- implement mknod, major, minor, makedev
- enable prototypes on XS functions
version 0.05: Fri Dec 23 23:06:27 CET 2011
- implemented POSIX::3 and tables.PL
- detected constant names are filled-in in the man-pages.
- ::Overview stdin/stdout/stderr only in POSIX.pm
- ::Overview setpgid also via ::Proc
- more consistency in ::Overview
- renamed gen.PL into lists.PL
version 0.04: Thu Dec 22 12:22:14 CET 2011
- many doc fixed in POSIX::Overview
- document %rlimit and other minor mistakes in ::Limit
- add utime() to ::FileSystem
version 0.03: Thu Dec 22 10:20:29 CET 2011
- fixed formatting of some manual pages, based in search.cpan.org
presentation.
- fixed some obvious usage mistakes.
- document some ::Termios functions
- added ::Limit with ulimit and rlimit functions
- added system/ structure for os-dependent work-arounds
- added predefined lists of constant names, to remove the need
to scan the header files.
- fix and test SigAction and ::Termios
version 0.02: Mon Dec 19 15:57:15 CET 2011
- initial implementation.