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diff --git a/whats/cooking/2011/10/28.txt b/whats/cooking/2011/10/28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7cabfdfc1e --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2011/10/28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +From - Fri Oct 28 14:22:27 2011 +Date: Fri Oct 28 14:22:27 2011 +To: erlang patches <[email protected]> +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2011-10-28) +X-dev-at: 3e294fdb901018a0f3926a11ffe20a19b9494d79 + +Read +https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Branches +and +https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Submitting-patches + +New Branching strategy short version: + +The branch 'master' will be the upcoming major release (e.g. R15). +Branch from this to submit patches for the next major release. +(New features and major changes) + +New branch 'maint' will be introduced AFTER R15, and will be the next maintenance release (e.g. R15B01) +Branch from this to submit patches for the next maintenance release. +(Bug fixes and minor changes) + + +The 'pu' branch will be based on 'master' and we will later add a 'maint-pu' for the 'maint' branch. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* cf/simple_one_for_one_shutdown (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 3 commits + + Explain how dynamic child processes are stopped (0473132) + + Stack errors when dynamic children are stopped (42c581d) + + Explicitly kill dynamic children in supervisors (4775947) + +* cf/supervisor_shutdown_infinity (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 2 commits + + Add a warning to docs about workers' shutdown strategy (9679510) + + Allow an infinite timeout to shutdown worker processes (2c4e984) + +* cg/fix-prng () (2010-10-06) 0 commits + +* fm/enif_is_number (erts) (2011-06-08) 1 commit + + Add NIF function enif_is_number (8db78b0) + +* hl/fix-ms_transform-scope-warn (stdlib) (2011-08-26) 1 commit + + ms_transform: Fix incorrect `variable shadowed' warnings (29610af) + +* pg/des-cfb-functions () (2011-09-06) 0 commits + +* rc/epp-include-path-fix (stdlib) (2011-06-14) 1 commit + + Make epp search directory of current file first when including another file (36a4d64) + +* sa/callback-attr (compiler, inets, kernel, otp, stdlib) (2010-06-08) 8 commits + + Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (ed72d05) + + Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (3ae8414) + + Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly deprecated comments (1d3544d) + + Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (9bb4ba8) + + Update primary bootstrap (570594d) + + Update the documentation with information on the callback attribute (8ea0c7c) + + Automatically generate 'behaviour_info' function from '-callback' attributes (493262e) + + Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (0edb6a4) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* hw/asn1rt_check-transform (asn1) (2011-10-15) 1 commit + - asn1rt_check: Fix transform_to_EXTERNAL1990 for binary input (6a69602) + +* jw/gen_event (stdlib) (2011-10-18) 1 commit + - General code clean up and clarity fixes (dbd14ea) + +* jw/release_handler-which-releases (sasl) (2011-10-18) 1 commit + - Add release_handler:which_releases/1 (66be346) + +* sa/dialyzer-wunderspecs (dialyzer) (2011-10-04) 2 commits + - Fix false warning about closure application (33f6f13) + - Change category of 'might also return' warnings (7892a31) + +* ta/docs (erts, kernel, stdlib, test_server) (2011-10-21) 6 commits + - file: correct make_link/2 and make_symlink/2 docs (80cec73) + - Fix typo in test_server(3) (f5645ca) + - Fix typos in io_protocol.xml (a5351af) + - Fix typo in erlang(3) (88db908) + - Fix typos in tar_SUITE (b8bd881) + - Fix typos in erts/preloaded/src (bd31962) + +* ta/prim_archive-reloading-mfa (erts, kernel, stdlib) (2011-10-19) 2 commits + - escript_SUITE: remove gratuitous space (3d89996) + - [erts,kernel,stdlib] fix escript/primary archive reloading (4ac74ce) + +* ta/snmpc-warnings-option (snmp) (2011-10-05) 1 commit + - snmpc: fix --warnings/--W option parsing (156b2ed) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Stalled] + +* bw/efile_exists (erts) (2010-10-07) 1 commit + - prim_file:exists/{1,2} which is lightweight file existence check (7203932) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* fm/posix-fallocate (erts, kernel) (2010-12-28) 1 commit + - Added file:allocate/2 (682f39a) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2011-04-15) 2 commits + - Update gen_stream tests to conform with common_test standard (ce84daf) + - Add gen_stream behaviour (6a089a4) + +Action expected from: OTP-Team + +* pr/mnesia_frag_hash (mnesia) (2011-04-27) 2 commits + - add mnesia_frag_hash test (1d6762d) + - Reduce calls to phash in key_to_frag_number (67a20c0) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* tn/inet_drv-fix (erts) (2011-04-08) 1 commit + - Use libdlpi to get physical address (e360563) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, kernel) (2010-03-15) 5 commits + - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (0198ee2) + - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (41638df) + - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (fce2b79) + - Disable native code if on_load is used (c8994f2) + - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (531e5d9) + +This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test +cases and is never intended to graduate. + +* fm/process_info_doc_fix (erts) (2011-09-20) 1 commit + - Fix documentation for erlang:process_flag/2 (e88a46d) + +* gs/mod_log-fix (inets) (2011-09-24) 1 commit + - Fix logging of content length in mod_log (166f4cc) + +* mh/create_cookie_error_msg (kernel) (2011-09-15) 1 commit + - Specify file name and error on create_cookie failure (9319587) + +* mh/run_erl-exit-status (erts) (2011-09-02) 1 commit + - run_erl.c: propagate exit status from child process (29364cf) + +* ms/epmd-IPv6-node-reg (erts, kernel) (2011-06-03) 1 commit + - epmd: support IPv6 node registration (5523b21) + +* pg/fix-cover-leftover-down-msg (tools) (2011-08-29) 1 commit + - [cover]fix leftover {'DOWN', ..} msg in callers queue (cc087c3) + +* rc/remote-shell-completion (kernel) (2010-10-22) 1 commit + - make tab completion work in remote shells (73d1959) + +* rj/fix-debugger-msgs (debugger) (2011-09-25) 2 commits + - Fixes "OK" spelling in debugger messages and variables (808629d) + - Fixes debugger message with wx (e43aa85) + +* rj/fix-doctypos (kernel, otp) (2011-09-19) 3 commits + - Adds missing spaces in Reference Manual in distributed section (0ac642f) + - Fixes typo in heart doc, adds missing parenthesis (60ed9f9) + - Fixes typo in Reference Manual in macros section (63c101d) + +* rj/fix-erlang-doc-style (erts) (2011-09-26) 1 commit + - Fixes module erlang doc style: option description (283e3ab) + +* rj/fix-net_kernel-doc (kernel) (2011-09-28) 1 commit + - Fixes net_kernel:get_net_ticktime() doc (bfa676a) + +* rj/fix-remove-exec-bit (asn1, common_test, debugger, dialyzer, docbuilder, erts, hipe, orber, otp, percept, public_key, sasl, snmp, ssh, wx, xmerl) (2011-09-24) 3 commits + - Removes exec bit from files: info files, dat, bat (25d7dee) + - Removes exec bit from files related to: XML, make, C (b414881) + - Removes exec bit from: erl, hrl, xml, html, asn, gif, xpm (75a1021) + +* ta/nif-variadic-funs (erts) (2011-05-13) 1 commit + - erts: convert variadic nif funs into inline funs (d76f146) + +* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel) (2011-01-13) 1 commit + - Implement file:sendfile (cea7b65) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* ao/fix_atime_mtime (erts, kernel) (2011-10-27) 2 commits + . Fixes a crash in file_server_2 when file:change_time/2,3 are called with invalid dates (4e0e7ae) + . Fixes wrong updates of file modification time (mtime) when only access time (atime) should be updated (42a8968) + +* nox/xmerl-namespace-axis (xmerl) (2010-12-07) 12 commits + . Implement namespace axis (27d791f) + . Add `#xmlPI` support to xmerl_xpath:write_node/1 (75e67f5) + . Fix processing-instruction(name?) (f05e78b) + . Fix path filters (610df56) + . Support more top-level primary expressions (770d6d9) + . Accumulate comments in element nodes (e5b6b3a) + . Add `default_attrs` option (18584c5) + . Allow whole documents to be returned (aef3dea) + . Track parents and namespace in `#xmlAttribute` nodes (dc9b220) + . Track parents in `#xmlPI` nodes (5095331) + . Set `vsn` field in `#xmlDecl` record (d712331) + . Fix namespace-conformance constraints (e062270) + +* rj/typer-fix-delete (typer) (2011-09-24) 1 commit + . Fixes TypEr crash when doing old files cleanup (189d095) + +* ta/erl_prim_loader-primary_archive-reloading (erts, kernel, stdlib) (2011-09-01) 1 commit + . [erts,kernel,stdlib] fix escript/primary archive reloading (b5e09a8) + |