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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- PTHREADS-WIN32 SNAPSHOT 1999-05-08
+ PTHREADS-WIN32 SNAPSHOT 1999-05-30
----------------------------------
Web Site: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/
FTP Site: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32
@@ -22,22 +22,18 @@ Please see the 'Acknowledgements' section at the end of this
announcement for the list of contributors.
-Change Summary
---------------
+Change Summary (since the last snapshot)
+----------------------------------------
-Some POSIX 1b functions which were internally supported are now
-available as exported functions:
+Some minor bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog file for details.
- sem_init
- sem_destroy
- sem_wait
- sem_trywait
- sem_post
- sched_yield
- sched_get_priority_min
- sched_get_priority_max
+Some more POSIX 1b functions are now included but ony return an
+error (ENOSYS) if called. They are:
-Some minor bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog file for details.
+ sem_open
+ sem_close
+ sem_unlink
+ sem_getvalue
Level of standards conformance
@@ -58,6 +54,9 @@ The following POSIX 1003.1c 1995 options are not defined:
_POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_PROTECT
_POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
+The following POSIX 1003.1b option is defined:
+
+ _POSIX_SEMAPHORES
The following functions are implemented:
@@ -133,10 +132,10 @@ The following functions are implemented:
sem_post (POSIX 1b)
sem_wait (POSIX 1b)
sem_trywait (POSIX 1b)
- sem_open (POSIX 1b - returns an error)
- sem_close (POSIX 1b - returns an error)
- sem_unlink (POSIX 1b - returns an error)
- sem_getvalue (POSIX 1b - returns an error)
+ sem_open (POSIX 1b - returns an error ENOSYS)
+ sem_close (POSIX 1b - returns an error ENOSYS)
+ sem_unlink (POSIX 1b - returns an error ENOSYS)
+ sem_getvalue (POSIX 1b - returns an error ENOSYS)
---------------------------
RealTime Scheduling
@@ -236,10 +235,16 @@ Availability
The prebuilt DLL, export libs (for both MSVC and Mingw32), and the header
files (pthread.h, semaphore.h, sched.h) are available along with the
-complete source code at:
+complete source code.
+
+The source code can be found at:
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32
+and as individual source code files at
+
+ ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/source
+
The pre-built DLL, export libraries and include files can be found at:
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest
@@ -275,7 +280,8 @@ development, however, this is not turned on by default. We have not tested
pthreads-win32 against Cygwin.
Generally:
-For convenience, the following pre-built files are included in the package:
+For convenience, the following pre-built files are available on the FTP site
+(see above):
pthread.h - for POSIX 1c threads
semaphore.h - for POSIX 1b semaphores
@@ -345,7 +351,8 @@ Anders Norlander <anorland@hem2.passagen.se>
Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
Kevin Ruland <Kevin.Ruland@anheuser-busch.com>
-
+Others who have contributed patches are attributed in the ChangeLog file.
+
Enjoy!
Ross Johnson