Bug fix release : otp_src_R10B-6
Build date : 2005-06-22
This is a bug fix release 6 for the R10B release.
You can download the full source distribution from
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For installation instructions please read the README that is part of
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The documentation at http://www.erlang.org will be updated. You can
also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_R10B-6.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_R10B-6.tar.gz
For some OTP applications there are more detailed release notes in the
HTML documentation.
We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports,
The OTP Team
--- asn1 ----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5616 Corrected code that generated code causing badarith warning.
--- compiler ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5553 In some circumstances, having two try/catch constructs
following each in a function body, would cause an internal
error to be generated (when in fact the generated code was
correct). (Thanks to Fredrik Thulin.)
Incorrect calls such as M:42() would crash the compiler. The
compiler now generates a warning. (Thanks to Ulf Wiger.)
OTP-5584 The new 'fun M:F/A' construct creates a fun that refers to
the latest version of M:F/A. This syntax is meant to replace
tuple funs '{M,F}' which have many problems.
The new type test 'is_function(Fun, A)' (which may be used in
guards) test whether Fun is a fun that can be applied with A
arguments. (Currently, Fun can also be a tuple fun.)
--- crypto --------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5630 Added support for RFC 3826 - The Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES) Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model.
(Thanks to Martin Bjorklund.)
--- edoc ----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5594 Flatten lists in macro expansion
--- erl_interface -------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5456 A configuration test error caused erl_interface to be built
without support for threads. This has been corrected.
OTP-5575 The clock_gettime configure test for erl_interface is
performed correctly now.
--- erts ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5532 The cpu_timestamp option for erlang:trace/3 is now also
supported on Linux.
OTP-5544 The last known werl window size/position is now saved
correctly when werl is stopped with the window minimized. A
problem with the placement not being saved if the emulator is
halted or stopped from the JCL menu has also been fixed.
OTP-5561 to_erl could close unexpectedly on Linux systems. Also,
output from the emulator could be lost. Corrected.
OTP-5572 ets:delete/1 now allows other Erlang process to run when a
large table is being deleted.
OTP-5582 A bug regarding tcp sockets which results in hanging
gen_tcp:send/2 has been corrected. To encounter this bug you
needed one process that read from a socket, one that wrote
more date than the reader read out so the sender got
suspended, and then the reader closed the socket. (Reported
and diagnosed by Alexey Shchepin.)
Updated the documentation regarding the second argument to
gen_tcp:recv/2, the Length to receive.
OTP-5584 The new 'fun M:F/A' construct creates a fun that refers to
the latest version of M:F/A. This syntax is meant to replace
tuple funs '{M,F}' which have many problems.
The new type test 'is_function(Fun, A)' (which may be used in
guards) test whether Fun is a fun that can be applied with A
arguments. (Currently, Fun can also be a tuple fun.)
OTP-5595 Erlang/OTP will now build on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" (the
problem was that 10.4 has a partially implemented poll()
function that can't handle devices). Also, on Mac OS X 10.3
"Panther", Erlang/OTP will now use select() instead of poll()
(because poll() on Mac OS X 10.3 is implemented using
select()).
OTP-5596 In the hipe application, there's a new experimental register
allocator (optimistic coalescing), and the linear scan
register allocator is now also available on ppc. Plus lots of
cleanups.
Minor hybrid heap corrections.
The maximum size of a heap used to be articially limited so
that the size of a heap would fit in 28 bits; that limitation
could cause the emulator to terminate in a garbage collection
even if there still was available memory. Now the largest
heap size for a 32 bit CPU is 1,699,221,830 bytes. (Thanks to
Jesper Wilhelmsson.)
Also removed the undocumented +H emulator option.
OTP-5618 A bug in the file driver when opening a file in compressed
mode, and the returned allocated pointer from the compressing
library was in very high memory (>= 2GB), causing e.g.
file:read/2 to return {error,ebadf}, has been corrected.
--- hipe ----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5596 In the hipe application, there's a new experimental register
allocator (optimistic coalescing), and the linear scan
register allocator is now also available on ppc. Plus lots of
cleanups.
Minor hybrid heap corrections.
The maximum size of a heap used to be articially limited so
that the size of a heap would fit in 28 bits; that limitation
could cause the emulator to terminate in a garbage collection
even if there still was available memory. Now the largest
heap size for a 32 bit CPU is 1,699,221,830 bytes. (Thanks to
Jesper Wilhelmsson.)
Also removed the undocumented +H emulator option.
--- inets ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5148 The ftp client now supports passive mode. Actually the ftp
client will always try to use passive mode and if it fails it
will use active mode instead. It is also possible to force
the ftp-client to use active mode, if that is desired, by
calling ftp:force_active/1 this way you can get the old
behavior.
OTP-5549 Wrapper function http_transport:accept/3 did error-handling
that it should not do because only the caller of the wrapper
can determine what action to take. So timeouts where handled
twice, once in http_transport and once in httpd_acceptor.
Clean up of the wrapper module http_transport changed the
action of the wrapper module and made the unwanted behavior
noticeable in in OTP error logs. And now the unwanted error
handling has been removed. The cleanup helped us find bad
code but alas it also generates a lot of log printouts that
are quite disturbing to the user of the HTTP-server.
OTP-5551 In the rewrite for 4.4 some mod_esi-environment values where
mistaken for ordinary header values and where incorrectly
transformed to strings. They are now atoms again.
OTP-5552 The HTTP server now handles "GET /\r\n\r\n" as well as "GET /
\r\n\r\n". According to the RFC the whitespace is not nedded.
OTP-5141 The HTTP server now supports ipv6 in the case that the
underlying mechanisms also do so. (ssl does not yet support
ipv6.)
OTP-5142 The FTP client now supports ipv6 in the case that the
underlying mechanisms also do so.
OTP-5623 The internal design of using blocking gen_tcp:recv with a
timeout and retries resulted in code that was hard to get a
good overview of, and ultimate led to situations where the
client got the wrong answer or no answer at all. The errors
where many times very timing dependent and mainly effected
the chunk-related functions so if you where lucky you proably
would not have noticed. The internal design was changed to
use gen_tcp active once semantics. The API is not effected
except for the function ftp:quote/2 which now returns a list
of strings (ftp result lines) where the line endings "\r\n"
has been removed. This was the original intention for the
return value of ftp:quote/2 but it was non trivial to make a
good such solution with the old design and a compromise was
made.
OTP-5624 The new implementation of pipelining in inets-4.1 alas was
slightly broken and unfortunately not caught by the test
suite that apparently needs some additions. The result was
that requests that ought to have been pipelined where not,
this has now been fixed.
OTP-5625 An option was added to disable the ipv6 support in the HTTP
client. This to provide a workaround possibility for buggy
ipv6-stacks.
OTP-5626 When generating dynamic HTTP response bodies the the default
content-type is now set to "text/html" instead of
"text/plain" which is more intuitive.
OTP-5627 When using the latest esi interface with the callback
interface of arity 3, HTTP Content-Type headers where
ignored, this due to a subtle difference between this
interface and the old ones in how they viewed HTTP
delimiters.
--- kernel ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5449 In case of a DNS lookup loop, inet_db:getbyname ends up
building an infinite list. This has been fixed.
OTP-5576 When doing an inet6 name lookup on an IPv4 address it was
possible to get an address on IPv4 format back. This has been
corrected. Some other minor inconsistencies regarding IPv6
name lookup have also been corrected.
OTP-5393 At startup, the erlang resolver hosts table was used to look
up the name of the local (and possibly stand alone) host.
This was incorrect. The configured resolver method is now
used for this purpose.
OTP-5543 'erl -config sys.config' would fail to start if the
sys.config file did not contain any whitespace at all after
the dot. (Thanks to Anders Nygren.)
OTP-5555 The erlang:port_info/1 BIF is now documented. Minor
corrections of the documentation for erlang:port_info/2.
Added a note to the documentation of the math module that all
functions are not available on all platforms.
Added more information about the '+c' option in the erl man
page in the erts documentation.
OTP-5582 A bug regarding tcp sockets which results in hanging
gen_tcp:send/2 has been corrected. To encounter this bug you
needed one process that read from a socket, one that wrote
more date than the reader read out so the sender got
suspended, and then the reader closed the socket. (Reported
and diagnosed by Alexey Shchepin.)
Updated the documentation regarding the second argument to
gen_tcp:recv/2, the Length to receive.
OTP-5584 The new 'fun M:F/A' construct creates a fun that refers to
the latest version of M:F/A. This syntax is meant to replace
tuple funs '{M,F}' which have many problems.
The new type test 'is_function(Fun, A)' (which may be used in
guards) test whether Fun is a fun that can be applied with A
arguments. (Currently, Fun can also be a tuple fun.)
OTP-5603 According to the documentation Global implements the
equivalent of register/2, which returns badarg if a process
is already registered. As it turns out there is no check in
Global if a process is registered under more than one name.
If some process is accidently or by design given several
names, it is possible that the name registry becomes
inconsistent due to the way the resolve function is called
when name clashes are discovered (see register_name/3 in
global(3)).
In OTP R11B Global will not allow the registration of a
process under more than one name. To help finding code where
no will be returned, a Kernel application variable,
global_multi_name_action, is hereby introduced. Depending on
its value (info, warning, or error), messages are to the
error logger when Global discovers that some process is given
more than one name. The variable only affects the node where
it is defined.
--- orber ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5567 It is now possible to define a Access Control List (ACL),
which limits the host and ports Orber may connect to or
accept connections from.
OTP-5568 It is now possible to add, and remove, listen interfaces. For
more information, consult the User's Guide and the orber
module Reference Manual.
OTP-5569 It is now possible to activate and deactivate Audit/Trail
logging. One of the three built in interceptors will be used
depending on the requested verbosity.
OTP-5570 It is now possible to configure Orber to add the interface,
to exported local IOR:s, a Request came via.
OTP-5571 It is now possible to instruct Orber which local interface an
outgoing Request shall be sent via. To accomplish this the
Orber generic context must be added added to each invocation.
OTP-5583 It is now possible to define a default local interface, which
Orber will use when connecting to another ORB.
--- os_mon --------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5559 Corrected several problems in the error handling/error
recovery (especially when os_mon is starting up).
--- snmp ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5506 [manager] Late (async) reply incorrectly delivered to user
via handle_pdu instead of handle_error.
OTP-5562 [agent] Add mapping of notification oid to aliasname. Martin
Bj�rklund.
Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions:
OTP-5505 [manager] Registering of USM users erroneous.
OTP-5508 [manager] Security engine id lookup errors
OTP-5539 [manager] User unregistration after reboot causes process
crash (snmpm_server).
OTP-5547 [agent] Failure to stop the snmp application when started
with the old config type.
OTP-5548 [manager] Error's reported by the SecModule (v3) when
generating outgoing message was not handled correctly in
message processing dispatcher module. And also when
encryption failed, the real error (unsupportedSecurityLevel)
was masked into encryptionError.
OTP-5550 [agent] Error's reported by the SecModule (v3) when
generating outgoing message was not handled correctly in
message processing dispatcher module.
OTP-5556 [manager] Set-request without specifying the variable type
failed. The type of the oid had to be found in the loaded
MIB. This lookup was erroneous.
OTP-5557 [manager] Cannot handle version-1 traps.
OTP-5560 [manager] (v3) encryption/decryption failure
OTP-5564 [manager] (v3) Security level handled incorrectly.
Improvements and new features:
OTP-5574 [manager] Added another get, get-next and set function with
another argument, ExtraInfo. This argument is passed on to
the net-if process. The net-if process included in this
application makes no use of this info, but other implementations
might.
OTP-5578 [manager] report with incorrect securtyModel and/or
securityLevel is ignored (dropped, except for incrementing
the proper error counter) even if all other info is correct.
This has been changed so that in this situation, the user
will be informed, either via the return value from a
synchronous call or via a call to the handle_error callback
function.
OTP-5580 [manager] Added function to unregister USM-user,
snmpm:unregister_usm_user.
OTP-5590 [agent] Added functions to retrieve lists of loaded tables
and variables.
Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions:
OTP-5579 [manager] Incorrect SHA-key length check when updating
usm-user info (should have been 20 but was 16).
OTP-5591 [compiler] Incorrect error report when the name of the field
and object is the same.
OTP-5592 [manager] Arguments Port and CtxName where swapped in
function snmpm:g/5 when forwarding call.
Incompatibilities:
OTP-5574 [manager] The snmpm_network_interface behaviour has changed.
One more argument (ExtraInfo) was added to the function
send_pdu (see send_pdu).
--- ssl ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5429 A configuration option for choosing protocol versions has
been added (sslv2, sslv3, and tlsv1).
OTP-5429 A configuration option for choosing protocol versions has
been added (sslv2, sslv3, and tlsv1).
OTP-5429 A configuration option for choosing protocol versions has
been added (sslv2, sslv3, and tlsv1).
OTP-5620 The R/W buffer length i esock.c was too small. It has been
increased from 4k to 32k.
--- stdlib --------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5555 The erlang:port_info/1 BIF is now documented. Minor
corrections of the documentation for erlang:port_info/2.
Added a note to the documentation of the math module that all
functions are not available on all platforms.
Added more information about the '+c' option in the erl man
page in the erts documentation.
OTP-5584 The new 'fun M:F/A' construct creates a fun that refers to
the latest version of M:F/A. This syntax is meant to replace
tuple funs '{M,F}' which have many problems.
The new type test 'is_function(Fun, A)' (which may be used in
guards) test whether Fun is a fun that can be applied with A
arguments. (Currently, Fun can also be a tuple fun.)
OTP-5589 Very minor corrections in beam_lib and its documentation.
--- syntax_tools --------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5593 Now syntax_tools correctly handles "CR/LF" in source code
files, for edoc purposes.
--- tools ---------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5588 The cover tool did not escape '<' and '>' not beeing part of
html tags in html log files.
--- xmerl ---------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5587 Removed call of undefined function in xmerl_lib.