From d53c1be3c8abc9d2fcd93b88c2536296ec00994a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrik Nord Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:40:20 +0200 Subject: Add What's cooking in erlang/otp (2011-04-06) --- whats/cooking/2011/04/06.txt | 276 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 276 insertions(+) create mode 100644 whats/cooking/2011/04/06.txt diff --git a/whats/cooking/2011/04/06.txt b/whats/cooking/2011/04/06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4b954853fa --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2011/04/06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,276 @@ +From - Wed Apr 6 13:40:15 2011 +Date: Wed Apr 6 13:40:15 2011 +To: erlang patches +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2011-04-06) +X-dev-at: d8dcd70f386de09109ca1f6f817a381cd1387769 + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* bd/doc_fixes2 (crypto, inets, stdlib, webtool) (2011-04-01) 3 commits + + Fix mistake in blowfish_ebc_en/decrypt docs (6597f81) + + Compile fixes for earlier documentation fixes (30f3f25) + + Various small documentation fixes (aa69482) + +* cg/fix-pointer-dereference (erts) (2011-02-23) 1 commit + + Fix some wrong pointer dereferences (47f9ef2) + +* gl/erts-doterlang-docs (erts) (2010-12-19) 1 commit + + Add back documentation on .erlang processing (6f9d175) + +* hw/call-chmod-without-f (asn1, common_test, compiler, cosFileTransfer, crypto, debugger, docbuilder, edoc, erl_interface, erts, et, inets, inviso, kernel, megaco, mnesia, orber, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, snmp, ssl, stdlib, syntax_tools, test_server, tools) (2010-11-15) 1 commit + + Call chmod without the "-f" flag (7ed11a8) + +* ks/hipe-ppc64 (erts, hipe, kernel) (2011-02-10) 8 commits + + Enable HiPE by default when compiling for PPC64 (577a628) + + Translate RTL to PPC code on PPC64 too (6f40a86) + + Changes in ppc files for PPC64 (ea5edef) + + Additions for the PPC64 backend (861cfc9) + + Changes for the PPC64 backend (dbba32b) + + Added loader for ppc64 (60826a5) + + New files for the 64-bit backends (7c53e28) + + Cleanup tags (e34f3a0) + +* mc/disjoint-plt-msg (dialyzer) (2011-03-29) 1 commit + + Fix the name of an error function (deaaaa2) + +* mm/xmerl_doc_fixes (xmerl) (2011-04-02) 1 commit + + Fix minor typos and improve punctuation in the xmerl_xpath @doc comment (8a8e059) + +* pr/mnesia-frag-hash-key () (2011-04-05) 0 commits + +* rc/rpc_pmap-typo (kernel) (2011-02-22) 1 commit + + Fix typo in doc of rpc:pmap/3 (ee1ea4c) + +* sb/make-files-like-erlc (tools) (2010-05-18) 1 commit + + Change make:files to behave more like erlc (5e9d051) + +* ta/driver_entry-typos-re (erts) (2011-02-27) 1 commit + + Remove gratuitous paren in driver_entry (75a01b2) + +* ta/typer-add-pa-pz (typer) (2011-03-22) 1 commit + + Add options -pa Dir and -pz Dir to TypEr (4240cf0) + +* tv/edoc-loop-fix (edoc) (2011-02-01) 1 commit + + Fix infinite loop for malformed edoc input (6ac05e5) + +* dc/improved_find_redist (erts) (2011-03-18) 1 commit + . support new SDKs in find_redist.sh and fallback to $ERL_TOP as last resort (f4f35aa) + +* ts/cover-with-export_all (tools) (2010-09-23) 1 commit + . add user specified compiler options on form reloading (eb02beb) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* at/os_mon_dragonfly_support (os_mon) (2011-04-01) 1 commit + - Add support for DragonFlyBSD to memsup (6d1cfbc) + +* at/os_mon_netbsd_support (os_mon) (2011-04-03) 1 commit + - Add NetBSD support to memsup and disksup (ca1223e) + +* ks/any-arity-fun (erts, stdlib) (2011-03-30) 4 commits + - Fix translation of fun((...) -> T) type (6121ade) + - Remove CVS Id tags from the files (22a8272) + - Remove CVS Id tags from the files (d39fbf6) + - Remove CVS Id tags from the files (68f7040) + +* ks/snmp-specs (snmp) (2011-04-03) 1 commit + - Add specs for functions that do not return (7354ffb) + +* lt/et-fix (et) (2011-03-30) 1 commit + - Force contents window size to display correctly on Windows. (9836fb2) + +* ms/heart-rem-garbage-append (erts, kernel) (2011-04-05) 1 commit + - heart: remove garbage appended to heart command (fa8456a) + +* pd/ttb_upgrade (observer) (2011-04-05) 30 commits + - additional tests for ttb module (d46b48e) + - new tests for ttb module (6b09d2e) + - updated documentation (95dcdc2) + - updated OTP tests (74d409d) + - (BUGFIX) Error with ip tracing to wrap sets (57803c6) + - Add onviso_server and cli as an exemplary ttb usage (560fbb2) + - Include logfile name in fetch directory name (a30e48e) + - missing files addes (3dd6a07) + - dbg-type tracing (cfbb99a) + - Optional handler specification allowed in stop/1 - Allowed optional handler specification in trace/2 (e0122cf) + - Flush file trace port buffers with given frequency (faa868b) + - Autoresume tracing (f963f9f) +. +. +. + +* sa/dialyzer-invalid-spec-fix (dialyzer) (2011-03-29) 1 commit + - Fix crash related with the contract blame assignment patch (beec181) + +* ta/unicode-non-chars (stdlib) (2011-04-05) 1 commit + - unicode: document 16#FFFE and 16#FFFF (non chars) (4207846) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Stalled] + +* cg/fix-prng (stdlib) (2010-10-06) 1 commit + . Fix a bug in the implementation of the pseudo-random number generator (863ec4d) + +Planned for R15 + +* pg/des-cfb-functions (crypto) (2010-10-16) 1 commit + . Add DES and Triple DES cipher feedback (CFB) mode functions (2c79ae7) + +Planned for R15 + +* mh/eunit-surefire-reports (eunit) (2011-02-25) 1 commit + - Don't shorten error messages in Eunit Surefire reports (d0cc2ae) + +Action expected from: Topic author. + +* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2011-01-31) 1 commit + - Add gen_stream behaviour (730c7fd) + +Action expected from: OTP-Team + +* sa/callback-attr (compiler, inets, kernel, otp, stdlib) (2010-06-08) 6 commits + - Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (a180fb1) + - Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (d0e32d8) + - Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly deprecated comments (d90e984) + - Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (acf3d67) + - Update primary bootstrap (30c1e91) + - Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (6ee955e) + +Action expected from: OTP-Team + +* ta/typer-quote-atoms (hipe, typer) (2011-03-20) 1 commit + - Quote atoms if necessary in types (254e21e) + +Action expected from: Kostis + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* bd/mod_esi_timeout_fix (inets) (2011-03-17) 1 commit + - Fix timeout message generated by mod_esi (eea0a7b) + +* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-03-15) 6 commits + - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (8592a02) + - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (e699ad4) + - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (2b72202) + - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (2712344) + - Disable native code if on_load is used (e8d0ea4) + - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (e25ef8c) + +This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test +cases and is never intended to graduate. + +* bsmr/fix-makefile-in-for-xref-mod-app-escript (otp) (2010-12-10) 1 commit + - Fix for Makefile.in invoking xref_mod_app.escript (10d4235) + +* bw/efile_exists (erts) (2010-10-07) 1 commit + - prim_file:exists/{1,2} which is lightweight file existence check (7203932) + +* fd/unix-efile-readdir-fix (erts) (2010-12-15) 1 commit + - Fix call to strncat, 3rd arg should be of type size_t and not a pointer (78cfdaf) + +* fm/posix-fallocate (erts, kernel) (2011-01-10) 2 commits + - Fix build on Solaris (38a922d) + - Added file:allocate/2 (9870d9b) + +* gc/gen-format-status-improvements (stdlib) (2010-06-12) 1 commit + - Fix format_status bug for unregistered gen_event processes (95ed86f) + +* hw/epmd-bind-to-address (erts) (2010-11-10) 1 commit + - Allow user to specify the IP address epmd binds to (bcf3b3d) + +* hw/fix-epmd-perror (erts) (2010-11-13) 1 commit + - Fix epmd's dbg_perror() output (b363d7d) + +* jf/run_erl-disable-flow-control (erts) (2010-03-05) 1 commit + - Teach run_erl RUN_ERL_DISABLE_FLOWCNTRL for disabling flow control (d0775cd) + +* km/pool_connect-to-running-nodes (stdlib) (2010-09-02) 1 commit + - Change pool module to attempt to attach to nodes that are already running (a9f4cbc) + +* ks/prim_file-fixes (erts) (2011-02-05) 3 commits + - New version of the file (ca86ed3) + - Driver names should be strings, not atoms (b8ea40c) + - Cleanup and cosmetic changes (6adc116) + + +* mk/net-kernel-epmd-return-list (kernel) (2010-12-10) 1 commit + - Fix list returned by net_kernel:epmd_module (169d7e4) + +* ms/beam-fix-format-specifiers-in-erl_exit-msg (erts) (2011-02-25) 1 commit + - Fix format specifiers in erl_exit messages (13f5d59) + +* ms/epmd-local-access-check (erts) (2010-11-24) 1 commit + - epmd: include host address in local access check (5b68030) + +* ms/file-fix-hang-reading-compressed-files (erts, kernel) (2011-01-30) 1 commit + - file: fix hang reading compressed files (292ecd0) + +* 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/fix-httpd-format (inets) (2011-03-17) 1 commit + - Fix log messages formating in httpd (cbe8b2e) + +* ta/erts-unused-vars (erts) (2011-03-10) 1 commit + - erts: Remove unused variables (345454e) + +* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel, test_server) (2011-01-13) 1 commit + - Implement file:sendfile (782dc4e) + +* uw/mnesia-majority (mnesia) (2011-01-30) 8 commits + - Add documentation text about majority checking (f5b8427) + - add mnesia_majority_test suite (9c2f765) + - where_to_wlock optimization + change_table_majority/2 (a535b6c) + - bug in mnesia_tm:needs_majority/2 (eb81e20) + - optimize sticky_lock maj. check (5b304d4) + - check majority for sticky locks (ae9e1fa) + - Write locks now check majority when needed. (6f02d2e) + - Add {majority, boolean()} per-table option. (c3241c0) + +* vb/shell (erts, kernel, stdlib) (2011-01-21) 6 commits + - Add expandfmt_fun option for io:setopts (f139eab) + - Correct JCL's help indentation (95672fa) + - Handle JCL's "r" command error when no pool started (ba4b196) + - Fix tab expansion in remote shell (e2077cb) + - edlin_expand: fix matches formatting (838b84a) + - Take into account arity len when calculating field's width (ff28c52) + +* sv/enif_is_exception (erts) (2011-02-22) 1 commit + . add support for checking if an ERL_NIF_TERM is an exception (f8cc2b0) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* es/pattern_match_on_magic_binaries (erts) (2011-03-16) 1 commit + . Allow some limited pattern matching on magic binaries (e994db4) + +Does not make sens as is, req more work. + +* gc/gen_where (stdlib) (2011-03-29) 1 commit + . gen: Use global:whereis_name/1 instead of safe_whereis_name/1. (4f6e8a1) + +Will be investigated later by OTP-team. + +* ks/erl_recomment (syntax_tools) (2011-02-23) 1 commit + . Fix bug with some comments disappearing (64eb70d) + +Replaced by fix from Richard Carlsson. + + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3