Revision history for Perl extension IPC::Locker
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* IPC::Locker 1.450 5/16/2006
** Created lockersh program for adding locks around other programs.
*** Add IPCLOCKER_HOST and IPCLOCKER_PORT environment variables.
* IPC::Locker 1.440 3/13/2006
*** Add Nagios plugins check_lockerd and check_pidstatd.
*** Fix pidwatch dieing due to SIGCHILD race. [by Greg Waters]
* IPC::Locker 1.434 10/13/2005
** NEWS is now renamed Changes, to support CPAN indexing. [Offer Kaye]
**** Fixed initalization scripts.
* IPC::Locker 1.433 12/1/2004
*** Fix filename conflict on Windows
* IPC::Locker 1.431 9/13/2004
*** Disassociate pidstatd from stdout so runs better as deamon.
* IPC::Locker 1.430 1/27/2004
**** Warn about non-root pidstatd initialization.
* IPC::Locker 1.420 7/24/2003
** Added pidstat tool for querying the daemon. [by Stephen Adkins]
*** Added pid_request_recv method.
*** Added pid=># parameter for setting PID to track. [Stephen Adkins]
* IPC::Locker 1.410 1/31/2003
*** Added lock_list() method. [by Anton Berezin]
* IPC::Locker 1.401 8/22/2002
**** Fix tests to start the servers automatically.
* IPC::Locker 1.400 8/1/2002
** Added pidstatd deamon and pidwatch program.
Optional. If running, allows for autounlocking across any hosts,
and for any generic application to determine if a PID exists on the
server's machine.
*** Added ping() method for determining if a server is up.
*** Added example init.d/lockerd file.
* IPC::Locker 1.300 04/03/2002
** Added autounlock switch to locks. This records the host
and pid which obtained the lock, and if that PID disappears
the lock is released to a new host. [Stephen Adkins]
*** Fixed bug which made lockerd --port option not work.
*** Allow colon separated hostnames for fallback hosting.
* IPC::Locker 1.200 11/15/2001
** Allow multiple lock names on lock requests,
and return the first one which becomes free. [Mike Lopresti]
** A zero timeout will disable timeouts. [James FitzGibbon]
* IPC::Locker 1.14 2/13/2000
** Changed default port to 'lockerd' which will look up the port
number in /etc/services. If not found defaults to old 1751.
*** Improved detection and recovery of daemon failures.
* IPC::Locker 1.12 5/24/2000
** Added support for Unix named sockets
[Written by kaspar@lifosa.com]
*** Fixed bug where lock expiration timer would fire at wrong time
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$Id: Changes,v 1.8 2006/05/16 18:43:27 wsnyder Exp $
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