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2014-02-06Make the references to various Erlang/OTP releases verboseHans Bolinder
2014-01-29Merge branch 'bjorn/fna-default/OTP-11612'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/fna-default/OTP-11612: Change the default file name encoding mode to +fnaw
2014-01-28Change the default file name encoding mode to +fnawBjörn Gustavsson
2014-01-27erts/kernel: sendfile no longer uses async threadsLukas Larsson
This has been done because a slow client attack is possible if the async thread pool is used. The scenario is: Client does a request for a file and then slowly receives the file one byte at a time. This will eventually fill the async thread pool with blocking sendfile operations and thus starving the vm of all file operations. If you still want to use the async threads pool for sendfile an option to enable it has been introduced.
2013-12-10Merge tag 'OTP_R16B03'Magnus Lidén
The R16B03 release Conflicts: lib/sasl/vsn.mk
2013-12-09Prepare releaseOTP_R16B03Erlang/OTP
2013-11-29Merge branch 'sv/file-osync/OTP-11498'Lukas Larsson
* sv/file-osync/OTP-11498: Add sync option to file:open/2 Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_file.beam
2013-11-26Merge branch 'maint'Raimo Niskanen
Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam lib/kernel/test/gen_sctp_SUITE.erl
2013-11-26Merge branch 'maint-r16' into maintRaimo Niskanen
2013-11-25Improve documentationRaimo Niskanen
2013-11-19DocumentRaimo Niskanen
2013-11-18Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
Conflicts: bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/os.beam
2013-11-18Merge branch 'mhssler/add-os-unsetenv/OTP-11446' into maintFredrik Gustafsson
* mhssler/add-os-unsetenv/OTP-11446: erts: remove ?line macro in testcases Update primary bootstrap Add os:unsetenv/1
2013-11-15Add sync option to file:open/2Joseph Blomstedt
The sync option adds the POSIX O_SYNC flag to the open system call on platforms that support the flag or its equivalent, e.g., FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH on Windows. For platforms that don't support it, file:open/2 returns {error, enotsup} if the sync option is passed in. The semantics of O_SYNC are platform-specific. For example, not all platforms guarantee that all file metadata are written to the disk along with the file data when the flag is in effect. This issue is noted in the documentation this commit adds for the sync option. Add a test for the sync option. Note however that the underlying OS semantics for O_SYNC can't be tested automatically in any practical way, so the test assumes the OS does the right thing with the flag when present. For manual verification, dtruss on OS X and strace on Linux were both run against beam processes to watch calls to open(), and file:open/2 was called in Erlang shells to open files for writing, both with and without the sync option. Both the dtruss output and the strace output showed that the O_SYNC flag was present in the open() calls when sync was specified and was clear when sync was not specified.
2013-11-14Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-11-09Add os:unsetenv/1Martin Hässler
New BIF os:unsetenv/1 which deletes an environment variable and returns 'true'. Does not change any old functionality. Calls the libc function unsetenv(3) on UNIX and SetEnvironmentVariableW(key, NULL) on Windows. The unicode support is the same as for os:getenv and os:putenv.
2013-11-07Fix rpc multicall sample codeEdwin Fine
2013-10-21Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-16Fix gen_sctp doc typoMartin Hässler
'one-to-may' should be 'one-to-many'
2013-09-23add {active,N} socket option for TCP, UDP, and SCTPSteve Vinoski
Add the {active,N} socket option, where N is an integer in the range -32768..32767, to allow a caller to specify the number of data messages to be delivered to the controlling process. Once the socket's delivered message count either reaches 0 or is explicitly set to 0 with inet:setopts/2 or by including {active,0} as an option when the socket is created, the socket transitions to passive ({active, false}) mode and the socket's controlling process receives a message to inform it of the transition. TCP sockets receive {tcp_passive,Socket}, UDP sockets receive {udp_passive,Socket} and SCTP sockets receive {sctp_passive,Socket}. The socket's delivered message counter defaults to 0, but it can be set using {active,N} via any gen_tcp, gen_udp, or gen_sctp function that takes socket options as arguments, or via inet:setopts/2. New N values are added to the socket's current counter value, and negative numbers can be used to reduce the counter value. Specifying a number that would cause the socket's counter value to go above 32767 causes an einval error. If a negative number is specified such that the counter value would become negative, the socket's counter value is set to 0 and the socket transitions to passive mode. If the counter value is already 0 and inet:setopts(Socket, [{active,0}]) is specified, the counter value remains at 0 but the appropriate passive mode transition message is generated for the socket. This commit contains a modified preloaded prim_inet.beam due to changes in prim_inet.erl. Add tests for {active,N} mode for TCP, UDP, and SCTP sockets. Add documentation for {active,N} mode for inet, gen_tcp, gen_udp, and gen_sctp.
2013-09-17Merge tag 'OTP_R16B02'Magnus Lidén
The R16B02 release Conflicts: lib/sasl/vsn.mk
2013-09-16Prepare releaseOTP_R16B02Erlang/OTP
2013-09-06Change encoding of troublesome notes.xml files to utf-8Björn Gustavsson
Most notes.xml files will be updated in every release and cause the kind of the problems described in the previous commit.
2013-09-04Merge branch 'maint'Raimo Niskanen
Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam
2013-09-04Merge branch 'raimo/linux-network-namespace-sockopt/OTP-11157' into maintRaimo Niskanen
* raimo/linux-network-namespace-sockopt/OTP-11157: Document socket option 'netns' Rudimentary test Make netns option value a string Implement netns for SCTP + bugfixes Implement netns option for TCP and UDP Implement emulator netns support for TCP and UDP
2013-08-21Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-08-21Merge branch 'fh/start-all/OTP-11250' into maintFredrik Gustafsson
* fh/start-all/OTP-11250: kernel: fix documentation regarding ensure_all_started endtag Updated primary bootstrap Add application:ensure_all_started/1-2
2013-08-20kernel: fix documentation regarding ensure_all_started endtagFredrik Gustafsson
2013-08-05Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-07-30kernel: added ntoa documentation and exported it in inet.erlFredrik Gustafsson
2013-07-30kernel: clarified inet:parse_address/1 referrering to old codeFredrik Gustafsson
2013-07-19Document socket option 'netns'Raimo Niskanen
2013-07-11Add application:ensure_all_started/1-2Fred Hebert
This adds two new functions to the application module that will recursively look for missing dependencies to start the entire dependency chain of a given application, and then the application itself, if possible. Its entire behavior is based on the currently existing 'start/1-2' functions, which will report dependencies that have not yet been started and other problems encountered. 'ensure_all_started/1-2' will use this information the way any programmer would manually do it to automate the process. This kind of functionality, while not OTP-ish (releases do this start sequence for the user), is still useful for testing purposes, quick demonstrations, and programmers who do not wish or know how to use OTP releases. The function returns '{ok, StartedApps}' for all started or already started applications (already started are omitted from the list), and will return '{error, {AppName, Reason}}' on a failure to allow users to rapidly know why the function failed. Note that no specific check is made for direct or indirect circular dependencies between applications, and these will make the function go in an infinite loop.
2013-06-18Merge tag 'OTP_R16B01'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
The R16B01 release Conflicts: lib/sasl/vsn.mk
2013-06-17Prepare releaseOTP_R16B01Erlang/OTP
2013-06-05Merge branch 'siri/kernel/heart-set_cmd-unicode/OTP-10843'Siri Hansen
* siri/kernel/heart-set_cmd-unicode/OTP-10843: Convert command string to encoded binary in heart:set_cmd/1 Conflicts: lib/kernel/src/heart.erl
2013-05-16Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Only verify not busy for erlang:send(Port, Msg, [nosuspend]) until scheduled Make high_msgq_watermark and low_msgq_watermark generic inet options Do not treat port_set_data/port_get_data as signals Add 'frmptr' emulator type Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam
2013-05-16Merge branch 'rickard/inet_opts/OTP-11075' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/inet_opts/OTP-11075: Make high_msgq_watermark and low_msgq_watermark generic inet options Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam
2013-05-06Make high_msgq_watermark and low_msgq_watermark generic inet optionsRickard Green
2013-04-19Convert XML files to UTF-8Hans Bolinder
2013-04-19Convert XML files to UTF-8, where neededHans Bolinder
2013-03-19Convert command string to encoded binary in heart:set_cmd/1Siri Hansen
OTP-10843 In order to allow unicode filenames in heart commands, the command string is now encoded according to the file name translation mode of the emulator (file:native_name_encoding()) before it is sent to the heart process.
2013-03-08kernel: Document application:ensure_started/1,2Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-02-25Prepare releaseOTP_R16BErlang/OTP
2013-02-22Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-02-22Merge branch 'hb/file_name_type/OTP-10852'Patrik Nyblom
* hb/file_name_type/OTP-10852: Introduce new type file:name_all()
2013-02-21Introduce new type file:name_all()Hans Bolinder
2013-02-14file: Document list_dir_all/1 and read_link_all/1Björn Gustavsson
2013-02-14file: Remove note about Unicode handling being experimentalBjörn Gustavsson
2013-02-13Make the file:filename() type more restrictiveBjörn Gustavsson
The recommended type for filenames is a list of characters (which may be Unicode characters greater than 255). Change the file:filename() to reflect that. For the filename module we still need a type that can be either a string or a binary, so we need to introduce the type file:filename_all().
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