Revision history for Perl extension IPC::Locker
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* IPC::Locker 1.480 2/1/2008
**** Added return type suppression to IPC::PidStat::pid_request.
**** Fix server to support over 1024 client connections. [Bryce Denney]
**** Lockerd performance enhancements to support > 3000 requests/second.
* IPC::Locker 1.472 7/16/2007
**** Fix locker test. [cpan-testers]
* IPC::Locker 1.471 7/5/2007
**** Fix loosing $@ in evals due to IO::Socket::INET bug. [Bryce Denney]
* IPC::Locker 1.470 5/4/2007
** Add uriexec. [by Jeff Dutton]
**** Scripts are now distributed under the script directory.
* IPC::Locker 1.463 4/5/2007
**** Fix 'make test' issues on systems without Nagios. [cpan-testers]
* IPC::Locker 1.462 4/3/2007
*** Fix requested pid not being passed down to server. [Vasu Arasanipalai]
**** Fix --help to use Pod::Usage instead of depreciated pod2text.
* IPC::Locker 1.461 1/24/2007
**** Pass full hostname through IPC::PidStat daemons.
This allows lockerd to process returns from hosts with aliased names.
* IPC::Locker 1.460 1/23/2007
** Support locking across multiple domains. [Daniel DeFolo]
*** Use fully qualified domain name instead of hostname. [Daniel DeFolo]
* IPC::Locker 1.452 8/7/2006
*** Destroy_unlock now only unlocks when the current pid matches the pid
that requested the lock, to prevent forked processes from unlocking
the lock. [Jeff Dutton]
*** Add pidwatch --foreground switch.
* IPC::Locker 1.451 5/23/2006
**** Cache IP addresses to avoid name server traffic. [by Greg Waters]
* IPC::Locker 1.450 (Alpha release only)
** 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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