• [VOICENWS] SW: bww bitwise works GmbH progress update August 2016

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    From: silvan.scherrerDESPAM@DESPAMbitwiseworks.com

    *bww bitwise works GmbH progress update August 19, 2016*

    In the last couple of week/month we have been working on the tasks below (among
    a lot more).

    * LIBCx
    * Samba Server 3.6
    * Binutils
    * Coreutils
    * Bison
    * DASH
    * GNU gettext
    * HPLip
    * kLIBC

    *
    LIBCx - kLIBC Extension Library*
    The kLIBC Extension Library extends the functionality of the kLIBC libraryhttp://trac.netlabs.org/libc> by adding a number of high demand features
    required by modern applications.

    Currently, LIBCx provides the following extensions:

    * Improved advisory file locking using the |fcntl()| API. The
    implementation provided by kLIBC uses |DosSetFileLocks| and is
    broken as it does not guarantee atomicity of lock/unlock operations
    in many cases (like overlapping lock regions etc.) and does not have
    deadlock detection.
    * Improved positional read/write operations provided by |pread()| and
    |pwrite()| APIs that guarantee atomic behavior. kLIBC emulates these
    functions using a pair of |lseek| and |read()/write()| calls in
    non-atomic manner which leads to data corruption when accessing the
    same file from multiple threads or processes.
    * Improved |select()| that now supports regular file descriptors
    instead of returning EINVAL (22) on them as kLIBC does. Regular
    files are always reported ready for writing/reading/exceptions (as
    per POSIX requirements).
    * Implementation of |poll()| using |select()|. kLIBC does not provide
    the |poll()| call at all.

    *
    Samba Server 3.6*
    **Samba is a free implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running Windows, Mac OS, Unix or OS/2 and OS/2-based systems. The goal of this project is to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for OS/2 and OS/2-based systems in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IBM-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components.

    We fixed a whole lot of longstanding issues in Samba Server 3.6 like:

    * Max logfile size does not work (Ticket #36)
    * Adding exceptQ support (Ticket #236)
    * SIGABRT on some situations (Ticket #189)
    * TDBBackup does not work (Ticket #225)
    * All remaining TDB Problems (Ticket #208)


    *Binutils*
    We updated the Binutils port to version 2.25.
    Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, mostly needed to develop applications.
    *

    Coreutils*
    We updated the Coreutils port to version 8.25.
    These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.


    *Bison
    *We updated the Bison port to version 3.0.4.
    Bison is a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description
    for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar.**Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.

    *
    DASH
    *Because our ASH shell shows it's age we have been in the need of a more modern
    one. So we decided to use DASH as our new shell and ported version 0.5.9.
    DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as
    possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is
    significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks.

    *
    GNU gettext*
    We updated the GNU gettext port to version 0.19.8.
    The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for producing
    multi-lingual messages in programs.


    *HPLip
    *We portet HPLip version 3.16.3
    The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals. It is used in our case as a addon to the CUPS printing subsystem.


    *kLIBC
    *We released a new version of kLIBC as RPM with an important fix. The fix prevents a possible crash when a app uses fork().
    See Ticket #363 for more details. We now hope Knut will integrate this fix soon
    in his main branch.


    *Sponsoring
    *
    If you want to support us or a specific project then please check out our online shop http://www.bitwiseworks.com/shop>.
    You are one of the people making the future possible!

    *Partners*
    We at bww bitwise works GmbH would like to thank our development partners, Arca
    Noae and http://Netlabs.org for their continued contribution to the OS/2 platform.
    Especially without Arca Noae the Firefox port would not be possible. They help us out when we are short on sponsorship.


    With regards, the bww bitwise works GmbH Team
    http://www.bitwiseworks.com
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