Changelog of @hackage/ports 0.4.3.2
2004-05-14 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* Previous four improvements are courtesy Donald Stewart
<dons@cse.unsw.edu.au>
* tests/test.sh: Regress script
* package.conf.in: Added package spec
* lib/Makefile: Needs a name in the ghc package system
* lib/Processes.hs (forkExec): fix code to follow semantics of
post 6.2 forkProcess
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.4.3
2003-07-07 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Processes.hs (procGrpKill): added
(procGrp): added
2003-06-23 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs (waitForThread): added
(waitForPort): added
(waitForPortThread): added
(closeAndWaitForPort): added
(openPort): added
(closePort): repeated closing is offset by opening of ports
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.4.2
* tests/ProcPipe.hs: using `PortThreads'
* tests/TestProcesses.hs: using `PortThreads'
* lib/Processes.hs (procKill): Added the signal type as an argument
2003-06-22 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs (closePort): Explicitly allow repeated calls to
this routine.
* lib/Processes.hs (proc): redid the process fork()ing and
exec()ing (using a scheme gleaned from David Sankel's
`shell-haskell') plus assorted other cleanup
2003-06-18 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/PortThreads.hs: new experimental API that couples port
creation with spawning a listener thread
* lib/SVars.hs (valV): Needs a NOINLINE
2003-06-17 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Processes.hs: Two fixes due to changes in GHC 6.0's libraries
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.4.1
2003-02-28 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/ThreadUtils.hs: (<&>), (&>) courtesy of Duncan Coutts
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.4.0 "A Cold Southerly"
2002-09-15 Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@AttitudeAdjuster
* aclocal.m4 (PORTS_GHC_VERSION): made Solaris and FreeBSD friendly
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.3.4
2001-07-04 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Processes.hs (procKill): added
2001-07-03 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Processes.hs (proc): gracefully handle the case where child
processes vanish; eg, because SIGCHLD is set to SIG_IGN
(runProcess): make this more save re execve() failing
2001-06-30 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs (withPorts): added
(keepAlivePort): added
(keepAliveForkIO): added
* lib/SVars.hs (&): made exception safe
2001-06-29 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Processes.hs (toProc): adapt to change in (<==)
* lib/Ports.hs (<==): doesn't use a fork anymore; it's too unintuitive
* configure.in (GHC): debugged
* Makefile (TARFILES): debugged
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.3.3
2001-06-24 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* ports-config.in (syslibs): updated
* lib/Ports.hs (waitUntilClosedPort): added
(setupPort): revised port creation code and thereby removed a bug in
`newProxyPort'
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.3.2
2001-06-19 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* ports-config.in: corrected
2001-06-04 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/PortsConfig.hs.in: added
* lib/Ports.hs (newFilteringPort): worked around the problem with
finalisers not counting as threads when the GC determines
indefinitely blocked threads and whether the program is deadlocked
2001-06-03 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* configure.in: added --enable-debug
2001-06-02 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs (newFilteringPort): ports are automagically closed
when garbage collected
(ensureRegularGC): kludge to avoid deadlocks due to delay in
running finalisers
* lib/Processes.hs (Proc): changed type to use explicit ports for
output
* lib/Ports.hs (chainPorts): added
(<==): clarified semantics and reduced deadlock potential
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.3.1
2001-05-25 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Processes.hs (proc): added
(toProc): added
2001-05-14 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* mk/common.mk: generic link rules
* Makefile (ghci): added ghci target
* lib/Processes.hs: started child process management
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.3.0 "Autumn Sun"
2001-02-22 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs: the `yield' bug magically disappeared with GHC 4.08
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.2.2
2000-10-05 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* Added space characters after backslashes used for multiline
strings; otherwise, the sources can't be run through cpp - as
pointed out by Michael Weber <michael.weber@post.rwth-aachen.de>
* aclocal.m4: stole PORTS_GHC_VERSION from fptools
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.2.1
2000-07-05 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs (PortNotifier): added
(newProxyPort): added
(listenToPort): added
(linkPorts): added
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.2.0 "Pacific Air"
2000-06-14 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs: debugged
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.1.2
2000-06-08 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/Ports.hs: Changed the representation of empty closed ports
to avoid races
2000-06-07 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* lib/PortsVersion.hs (versnum): 0.1.1
2000-06-04 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* Makefile: installation
* toplevel: filled in missing pieces
2000-05-21 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
* (setup): reorganistion of alpha code as standalone library