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@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@ +RELEASE 2.5.0 +------------- +(2005-05-06) + +General +------- + +The package now includes a reference documentation set consisting of +HTML formatted Unix-style manual pages that have been edited for +consistency with Pthreads-w32. The set can also be read online at: +http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/manual/index.html + +All of the bug fixes and new features in this release have been +back-ported in release 1.9.0. + +Bugs fixed +---------- + +* Thread Specific Data (TSD) key management has been altered to +eliminate a source of resource leakage (HANDLEs plus memory). +Thanks to Richard Hughes at Aculab for identifying the leak. + +* Fix a semaphore accounting race between sem_post/sem_post_multiple +and sem_wait cancellation. This is the same issue as with +sem_timedwait that was fixed in the last release. + +* sem_init, sem_post, and sem_post_multiple now check that the +semaphore count never exceeds _POSIX_SEM_VALUE_MAX. + +* Although sigwait() is nothing more than a no-op, it should at least +be a cancellation point to be consistent with the standard. + +New tests +--------- + +* stress1.c - attempts to expose problems in condition variable +and semaphore timed wait logic. This test was inspired by Stephan +Mueller's sample test code used to identify the sem_timedwait bug +from the last release. It's not a part of the regular test suite +because it can take awhile to run. To run it: +nmake clean VC-stress + + RELEASE 2.4.0 ------------- (2005-04-26) |