Revision history for Perl extension IPC::Shareable.
0.01 Wed Jul 30 09:00:53 1997
- original version; created by h2xs 1.18.
0.05 Wed Jul 30 15:02:31 EDT 1997
- scalars can now be tied; Ben Sugars.
0.10 Fri Aug 1 13:32:52 EDT 1997
- can now tie both scalars and hashes of arbitrary length;
Ben Sugars.
0.11 Wed Aug 6 10:14:49 EDT 1997
- initial implementation of semaphores for versioning and
caching; Ben Sugars.
0.12 Thu Aug 7 14:47:42 EDT 1997
- various bug fixes; Ben Sugars.
0.15 Fri Aug 8 15:45:29 EDT 1997
- implemented locking using semaphores; Ben Sugars.
0.16 Mon Aug 11 16:10:54 EDT 1997
- new shared memory segments now initialized with null
values; Ben Sugars.
0.17 Wed Aug 27 15:57:11 EDT 1997
- fixed some bugs in &parse_argument_hash; Ben Sugars.
0.18 Thu Aug 28 09:12:30 EDT 1997
- fixed garbage collection bug; Ben Sugars. Thanks to
Michael Stevens <michael@imaginet.co.uk> for the patch.
0.20 Thu Aug 28 15:13:46 EDT 1997
- added ability to magically create ties to implicitly
referenced thingys; Ben Sugars.
0.25 Tue Oct 7 14:41:49 EDT 1997
- added more checking of sem*() and shm*() return values;
Michael Stevens and Ben Sugars.
- added shlock and shunlock; Ben Sugars.
- fixed bug that would cause modifications of magically
referenced thingys to fail. Thanks to Maurice Aubrey
0.26 Mon Oct 20 10:06:43 EDT 1997
- fixed bug regarding assigning a reference to an empty
hash to a tied variable. Thanks to Jason Stevens.
0.28 Wed Oct 22 14:59:08 EDT 1997
- cleaned up the way thingys are magically tied; Ben Sugars.
- moved many subroutines so that they are auto-loaded; Ben
Sugars.
- updated man page; Ben Sugars.
0.29 Mon Jan 12 13:49:42 EST 1998
- $MAXVER patch for when the version semaphore reaches its limit
and rolls back over to 0; Maurice Aubrey <maurice@hevanet.com>.
- patch to quieten things down under -w; Doug MacEachern
<dougm@telebusiness.co.nz>
0.30 Mon Jan 19 11:13:41 EST 1998
- Added SEM_UNDO to semop() calls; Maurice Aubrey.
- Fixed some bugs in the locking code; Maurice Aubrey.
- Made calls to debug() conditional for efficency; Maurice Aubrey.
- Fixed a signal handler in test.pl; Maurice Aubrey.
0.50 Tue Mar 21 11:56:32 EST 2000
- Complete rewrite incorporating the following changes.
- Requires 5.00503. This allowed the module to get rid of the
global cache for shared memory segments; each Shareable
object now carries around its own data.
- 5.00503 also allowed tied arrays to be implemented
- Shared memory segments can no longer be of infinite length
thereby reducing the amount of code in the module by a
factor of 2.
- Uses IPC::Shareable::SharedMem class for accessing
shared memory.
- Uses IPC::Semaphore module for accessing semaphores.
- Completely revisited the way references are dealed with: all
referenced thingies are now automagically tied to shared
memory.
- Constants now imported from IPC::SysV; Shareable.xs is gone
- Rewrote test suite and moved into t subdirectory
- Updated man page
0.51 Fri May 5 23:47:06 EDT 2000
- Fixed bug that would cause IPC::Shareable::BUF_SIZ to be
ignored; thanks to Robert Emmery <roberte@netscape.com> and
Mohammed J. Kabir <kabir@intevo.com> for reporting.
- Stopped tests from leaking shm segments
- Added test of argument parsing
- doc fixes
0.52 Thu Sep 14 12:30:17 EDT 2000
- Now STORE, PUSH, POP, etc all call _thaw() before doing
their business.
- Refined SIGALRM handlers in test scripts
- Fixed concurrency issues affecting tied arrays and hashes;
thanks to thanks to Robert Emmery <roberte@netscape.com>,
Terry Ewing <terry@intevo.com>, Tim Fries
<timf@dicecorp.com>, and Joe Thomas <jthomas@women.com>.
- Doc fixes thanks to Paul Makepeace
<Paul.Makepeace@realprogrammers.com>
0.53 Tue Nov 14 00:33:35 EST 2000
- Fixed race condition in test suite causing intermitent
failures.
- Better checking for success of calls to Storable::thaw();
thanks to Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>.
0.54 Mon Jan 8 11:52:28 EST 2001
- Fix to allow IPC::Shareable to work with 1.0.* versions of
Storable