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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ RELEASE 2.5.0 ------------- -(2005-05-06) +(2005-05-09) General ------- @@ -10,15 +10,22 @@ 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 +Thanks again to Tim Theisen for pre-release running the testing suite +on an MP system. + 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. +* Thread Specific Data (TSD) key management has been ammended to +eliminate a source of (what is effectively) resource leakage (HANDLEs +plus memory). +Thanks to Richard Hughes at Aculab for identifying and locating the leak. + +* TSD key destructors are now processed up to PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS +times (was always in pthread.h) instead of just once. * Fix a semaphore accounting race between sem_post/sem_post_multiple and sem_wait cancellation. This is the same issue as with @@ -40,6 +47,11 @@ 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 +* tsd2.c - tests that key destructors are re-run if the tsd key value is +not NULL after the destructor routine has run. Also tests that +pthread_setspecific() and pthread_getspecific() are callable from +destructors. + RELEASE 2.4.0 ------------- |