Bug fix release : otp_src_R10B-9
Build date : 2005-12-13
This is a bug fix release 9 for the R10B release.
You can download the full source distribution from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R10B-9.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R10B-9.readme (this file)
Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible
program. For instance, on MacOS X before 10.3 you must use the 'gnutar' command;
you can't use the 'tar' command or StuffIt to unpack the sources.
For installation instructions please read the README that is part of
the distribution.
The Windows binary distribution can be downloaded from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_R10B-9.exe
On-line documentation can be found at http://www.erlang.org/doc.html.
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_R10B-9.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_R10B-9.tar.gz
We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports,
The OTP Team
--- asn1-1.4.4.9 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5783 Now exists a default function clause for table lookup of a
table constraint. This causes a nice error instead of a
crash. Did also remove some obsolete funs ({Mod,Fun}) in
generated code.
OTP-5812 ASN1-compiler faild to derive a value out of an external
reference in some certain cases, when compiling specs so that
the spec with the reference was compiled before the spec with
the defined value.
OTP-5831 The documentation of how records of embedded types are named
is extended and made clearer by examples and rules. The
section "Naming of Records in .hrl Files" in the User's Guide
is added.
OTP-5833 The documentation of the megaco:call and megaco:cast
functions was unclear regarding pre-encoded actions.
--- compiler-4.3.11 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5791 The compiler would assume that some patterns with
aliases ('=') would not match if they were split into
several lines. (Thanks to Peter Nagy/Mats Cronqvist.)
Minor cleanups to eliminate Dialyzer warnings.
--- cosNotification-1.1.2 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5823 Possible to configure cosNotification not to type check, by
invoking corba_object:is_a/2, supplied IOR:s. When a type
check fails, the feedback has been improved.
--- debugger-3.0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4284 A number of smaller improvements to the GUI:
* Multiple choices now possible in Function Break
Dialog Window.
* Right-clicking the Module entry in a Break Dialog
Window will open a popup menu from which the
appropriate (interpreted) module can be selected.
* Auto Attach options can now be changed using the
buttons in the left part of the Monitor Window, not
only by the corresponding menu buttons.
* Buttons for enabling and disabling all breakpoints
have been added.
* View Module Window keyboard shortcuts corrected.
OTP-5837 When evaluating a guard expression for a fun function
clause, the environment variable bindings were not
taken into account.
--- edoc-0.6.8 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5862 Deprecated functions are marked as such in the function
index.
The presence of a behaviour_info/1 function is detected
and used.
Improved end-of-sentence detection ('.' followed by br
or p HTML tags). (Reported by Zoltan Peter Toth.)
--- erts-5.4.11 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5795 Timers could sometimes timeout too early. This bug has
now been fixed.
Automatic cancellation of timers created by
erlang:send_after(Time, pid(), Msg), and
erlang:start_timer(Time, pid(), Msg) has been
introduced. Timers created with the receiver specified
by a pid, will automatically be cancelled when the
receiver exits. For more information see the erlang(3)
man page.
In order to be able to maintain a larger amount of
timers without increasing the maintenance cost, the
internal timer wheel and bif timer table have been
enlarged.
Also a number of minor bif timer optimizations have
been implemented.
OTP-5818 By setting Unix environment variables, the priority for
the emulator can be lowered when it is writing crash
dumps and the time allowed for finishing writing a
crash dump can be set to a certain number of seconds.
See the documentation for erl in the erts application.
(Also, a few other previously undocumented environment
variables are now documented.)
OTP-5827 erlang:monitor(process, Pid) hanged if Pid referred to
a process on a non-existing node with the same nodename
as the nodename of node on which the call was made.
This bug has now been fixed.
OTP-5835 The Install script no longer needs to start the Erlang
emulator to build the sasl start script, which
faciliates cross-platform installation (e.g. installing
the Linux version of OTP in a Clearcase or NFS file
from a computer running Solaris).
OTP-5847 Documentation improvements:
- documentation for erlang:link/1 corrected
- command line flag -code_path_cache added
- erl command line flags clarifications
- net_kernel(3) clarifications
--- erts-5.4.12 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5794 Several minor changes were made to increase the
reliability of setting up connections to other Erlang
nodes (especially when there were many Erlang nodes
involved).
OTP-5819 Fixed a minor build problem on Windows.
OTP-5822 The delay_send option for gen_tcp was broken on
Windows.
OTP-5828 If there were user-defined variables in the boot
script, and their values were not provided using the
-boot_var option, the emulator would refuse to start
with a confusing error message. Corrected to show a
clear, understandable message.
The prim_file module was modified to not depend on the
lists module, to make it possible to start the emulator
using a user-defined loader. (Thanks to Martin
Bjorklund.)
OTP-5853 The HiPE compiler identifies more leaf functions,
giving slightly faster code.
Corrected problems in HiPE's coalescing register
allocating that would cause it to fail when compiling
very large functions (e.g. some of parse modules in the
megaco application).
--- hipe-3.5.4 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5853 The HiPE compiler identifies more leaf functions,
giving slightly faster code.
Corrected problems in HiPE's coalescing register
allocating that would cause it to fail when compiling
very large functions (e.g. some of parse modules in the
megaco application).
--- inets-4.6.2 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5796 [http,server] Had earlier forgot to convert a value in
entity_body to a binary.
OTP-5821 [http,server] Now application checks whether the necessary
directives under directive Directory exist.
--- kernel-2.10.11.1 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5795 Timers could sometimes timeout too early. This bug has
now been fixed.
Automatic cancellation of timers created by
erlang:send_after(Time, pid(), Msg), and
erlang:start_timer(Time, pid(), Msg) has been
introduced. Timers created with the receiver specified
by a pid, will automatically be cancelled when the
receiver exits. For more information see the erlang(3)
man page.
In order to be able to maintain a larger amount of
timers without increasing the maintenance cost, the
internal timer wheel and bif timer table have been
enlarged.
Also a number of minor bif timer optimizations have
been implemented.
OTP-5847 Documentation improvements:
- documentation for erlang:link/1 corrected
- command line flag -code_path_cache added
- erl command line flags clarifications
- net_kernel(3) clarifications
--- kernel-2.10.12 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5792 A bug in global has been fixed: the locker process
added 'nonode@nohost' to the list of nodes to lock.
This could happen before any nodes got known to the
global name server. Depending on net configuration the
symptom was a delay.
OTP-5794 Several minor changes were made to increase the
reliability of setting up connections to other Erlang
nodes (especially when there were many Erlang nodes
involved).
OTP-5809 If an .app file is missing, the error reason returned
by application:load/1 has been corrected to {"no such
file or directory", "FILE.app"}, instead of the less
informative {"unknown POSIX error","FILE.app"}.
OTP-5810 Bug fixes: disk_log:accessible_logs/0 no longer reports
all pg2 process groups as distributed disk logs;
disk_log:pid2name/1 did not recognize processes of
distributed disk logs.
OTP-5811 application_controller now terminates with the actual
error reason, instead of shutdown. This means that the
crash dump now should be somewhat more informative, in
the case where the runtime system is terminated due to
an error in an application.
Example: If the (permanent) application app1 fails to
start, the slogan now will be: "Kernel pid terminated
(application_controller)
({application_start_failure,app1,{shutdown,
{app1,start,[normal,[]]}}})"
rather than the previous "Kernel pid terminated
(application_controller) (shutdown)"
OTP-5814 The functions file:consult/1, file:path_consult/2,
file:eval/1,2, file:path_eval/2,3, file:script/1,2,
file:path_script/2,3 now return correct line numbers in
error tuples.
OTP-5828 If there were user-defined variables in the boot
script, and their values were not provided using the
-boot_var option, the emulator would refuse to start
with a confusing error message. Corrected to show a
clear, understandable message.
The prim_file module was modified to not depend on the
lists module, to make it possible to start the emulator
using a user-defined loader. (Thanks to Martin
Bjorklund.)
OTP-5856 Minor corrections in the description of open modes.
(Thanks to Richard Carlsson.)
--- megaco-3.2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5725 In order to allow the user to drop (ignore) a request a new
return value, ignore_trans_request, has been added to the
handle_trans_request callback function.
OTP-5793 Text encoding of the termination id list in
contextTerminationAudit incorrect. Missing { }. All versions.
--- megaco-3.2.2 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5799 Digit Map: Megaco does not handle "unexpected event"
according to chapter 7.1.14.5 point 5. See
megaco:eval_digit_map and megaco:test_digit_event.
OTP-5803 The text codec of prev3b should handle encoding/decoding of
indAudMediaDescriptor as specified in the final version of
the v3 spec. This is backward compatible and more aligned
with the ASN.1
OTP-5804 Flex scanner cannot handle empty local/remote descriptors.
OTP-5805 Text codecs does not handle messages of unsupported versions
(or with incorrect version) in a good way.
OTP-5816 The documentation of the reply-timer was unclear.
--- megaco-3.2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5826 Digit Map: Improper handling of duration.
OTP-5830 Assumed a more strict approach to the return values of the
callback functions of the megaco_user behaviour. Now, a
return value other then what is described in the behaviour
documentation, will result in a warning message. Except for
the handle_trans_request and handle_trans_request_long, which
still results in error messages.
OTP-5833 The documentation of the megaco:call and megaco:cast
functions was unclear regarding pre-encoded actions.
OTP-5836 The prev3b text codec's failed to properly decode an
auditReply with ErrorDescriptor.
OTP-5839 Introduced a "strict version control" (strict_version)
connection info and user info option.
--- odbc-2.0.5 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5759 Fixed bug, reported error when deleting nonexisting
rows, thanks to Laura M. Castro for reporting this.
--- os_mon-1.8 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5798 The memsup part of the OS_Mon application has been made
more stable. If there are (possibly temporary) problems
collecting memory data, the interface functions
(get_memory_data/0, get_system_memory_data/0) now do
not fail, but return the previously collected value, if
any, or a dummy value otherwise. Also, a warning
message is printed.
--- sasl-2.1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5858 Added a number of functions to release_handler which
makes it possible to test upgrade and downgrade of
applications according to an .appup file "on the fly":
- upgrade_app/2
- upgrade_script/2
- downgrade_app/2,3
- downgrade_script/3
- eval_appup_script/4
--- snmp-4.6 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5763 [manager] Improve manager supervision.
OTP-5771 Improved handling of audit trail logs. See the atl_repair
config for more info.
OTP-5787 [agent] Adding utility function to convert old application
config to current agent config. See snmpa:convert_config/1
for more info.
OTP-5797 Improved application start flexibillity. It is now possible
to start snmp aplication components (agent or manager) after
the application has ben started. It is even possible to start
an "empty" snmp application and start the agent and/or
manager afterwards. See snmp:start_agent/0,1 and
snmp:start_manager/0,1.
OTP-5829 Misc documentaion corrections.
--- snmp-4.6.1 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5834 [agent] SNMP sha/aes decryption did not work.
OTP-5838 [agent] The SNMP agent internal data base (local db) uses
dets, and does not properly handle error's from e.g. lookup.
--- ssl-3.0.10 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5863 Erlang distribution over SSL was broken. Corrected.
(Thanks to Fredrik Thulin.)
--- stdlib-1.13.11 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5789 More detail on beam_lib:version/1 in documentation.
OTP-5813 The new function io:read/3 works like io:read/1,2 but
takes a third argument, StartLine.
OTP-5846 The new function gen_fsm:enter_loop/4,5,6, similar to
gen_server:enter_loop/3,4,5, has been added.
OTP-5848 The function c:i/1 is now exported.
OTP-5854 When calling gen_server:enter_loop with a registered
server name, it was only checked that the registered
name existed, not that it actually was the name of the
calling process.
--- syntax_tools-1.4.3 ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5855 Added support for fun M:F/A.