Bug fix release : otp_src_R8B-2
Build from snapshot : 20020807
This is a bug fix release R8B-2. You can download the full source
distribution or the patch that take R8B-1 up to R8B-2.
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R8B-2.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R8B-1to2.patch.gz
The bug fixes and improvements in this release is described in the
release notes
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R8B-2.readme
If you have access to the Ericsson intranet you can find the same files at
http://erlang.ericsson.se/opensource/download/
Note that to unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible
program. For example on MacOS X you need to use the 'gnutar' command,
you can't use the 'tar' command or StuffIt to unpack the sources.
To patch the previos release "otp_src_R8B-1" you use a patch program
that understand the "unified" patch format and do
% cd otp_src_R8B-X
% gzip -dc /location/of/patch/file/otp_src_R8B-1to2.patch.gz | patch -p1
For installation instructions please read the README that is part of
the distribution.
There is no support for building a Windows version from source.
The Windows binary distribution can be downloaded from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_R8B-2.exe
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_html_R8B-2.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_man_R8B-2.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
-- erts -------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4389 - The emulator could deadlock on vfork() due to operations
performed in the child process before exec() (only
observed on multi-processor machines). This bug has now
been fixed.
OTP-4398 - The possibility to use elib_malloc instead of the
default (libc) malloc has been added. The +m command
line switch is used in order to enable another malloc
than the default (see the erl(1) man page). In order
to enable elib_malloc use "+m elib".
OTP-4419 - When running the instrumented emulator and sl_alloc
release 1, sl_realloc could fail to preserve all
information. This has now been fixed.
OTP-4420 - Harmless bug (which caused compilation warnings on some
platforms) fixed in sl_alloc (release 2)
OTP-4421 - Documentation of obsolete system flag +s removed
OTP-4415 - Corrects a bug in the socket communication.
A gen_tcp:recv/3 could hang infinitely when
concurrently sending receiving from the same socket
in passive mode.
OTP-4422 - Exerimental kernel poll support was added for Linux
(/dev/kpoll), FreeBSD (kqueue) and Solaris (/dev/poll)
-- kernel -----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4274 - The lookup procedure for a standalone host using the
internal resolver has been changed for /etc/hosts, so
that a lookup request for the own short hostname will
match on the fully qualified hostname even if the short
hostname did not exist in /etc/hosts.
-- stdlib -----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4431 - If the pattern was a cons, but the value was not,
it resulted in an illegal pattern error, instead of
simply a match failure.
-- erl_interface ----------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4379 - ei_x_format() was not working correctly for floating point
arguments on some platforms. This is now corrected.
OTP-4370 - The function erl_receive_msg() no longer try to decode
messages that contains no data.
OTP-4423 - Sortorder was improved and bignum decoding was added
-- os_mon -----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4249 - cpu_sup:util/0 and cpu_sup:util/1 which returns
information about cpu utilization have been added.
For further information see cpu_sup(3).
OTP-4344 - process_memory_high_watermark alarm was erroneously set
when 1/4 of the limit had been reached. This bug has
now been corrected.
OTP-4000 - Gen_server calls to the memsup server of the os_mon
application could fail due to slow responses from
the memsup port program. The memory polling is now handled
by a separate process making answers from memsup more or
less instant.
The disksup server of the os_mon application is modified so
that it does not use os:cmd() on Unix systems.
The initial version of the patch had a memsup startup race
problem that could make memsup crash with messages similar
to {bad_return_value,{stop, {unexpected_message,
{'$gen_call', {<0.31.0>,#Ref<0.0.0.389>},
get_memory_data}}, []}}.
The latest version of this patch removes this bug.
-- orber ------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4410 - It is now possible to activate automatic typechecking
when invoking operations on CORBA Objects locally. For
more information, see the configuration and debugging
chapters in the User's Guide regarding the
local_typecheck option.
OTP-4375 - Orber now support the Fixed datatype defined by the OMG.
To be able to define Fixed types in an IDL-specification,
check that your current IC version supports this type as
well. If not, the only option is to encapsulate it in an
any type.
OTP-4376 - It was not possible to use the function
corba:print_object/2, which was introduced in the previous
release, only corba:print_object/1. Now it is also possible
to use the error_logger or receive the data in string form.
-- cosNotification --------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4412 - The exception CosNotifyFilter::InvalidValue, raised by the
operation
CosNotifyFilter::MappingFilter::add_mapping_constraints,
did not contain correct data in the body. Hence, it was not
possible to pass this exception to another ORB.
OTP-4413,
OTP-4414 - It was not possible to set the QoS property PacingInterval
to zero and the default value was not compliant with the OMG
specification. The default value for MaximumBatchSize have
also been changed du to the same reason.
OTP-4413,
OTP-4414 - The default value, for the QoS properties PacingInterval
and MaximumBatchSize, have been changed to zero (i.e. no
timeout) and 1 respectively, which is compliant with the
OMG specification.
-- megaco -----------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4339 - Adding utility functions for megaco tracing.
OTP-4336 - Optional line-number configure for the megaco flex scanner
incorrect. The intention was that line-numbering could be
replaced with token number in order to improve performance.
This did not work (line-numbers was always chosen). This
has no runtime effect.
OTP-4337 - Improved error reporting from the megaco messenger module.
OTP-4357 - Text parsing of type octet string erroneous.
OTP-4359 - A message containing a transaction request without the
transaction id value is incorrectly reported back to the
sender with a just an ErrorDescriptor. The correct
behaviour is described in chapter 8.1.1 of RFC 3015. Now
the result will be a transactioReply with transaction
id = 0 and an ErrorDescriptor.
-- inets ------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4374 - Use the same read algorithm for socket type ssl as
is used for ip_comm. As of version 2.3.5 of the ssl
application it is possible to use socket option
{active, once}, so the same algorithm can be used
for both ip_comm and ssl.
-- snmp -------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4345 - Improved error handling in snmp_error_report
module (ets-lookup failure).
OTP-4329 - SNMP NotifiyType error. Calls to the functions
snmp_notification_mib:get_targets/0 failes since it assumes
that notify type was stored as atoms, which is not always
the case. Furthermore the parsing of the notify config file
did not convert the 'trap' and 'inform' to their respective
integer values 1 and 2.
OTP-4394 - SNMP Target mib tag check incorrect.
-- ssl --------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4380 - Setting of the option `nodelay' caused the SSL port program
to dump core.
Setting of the option '{active, once}' in <c>setopts</c>
was wrong, causing a correct socket message to be regarded
as erroneous.
OTP-4374 - A self-signed peer certificate was always rejected with the
error `eselfsignedcert', irrespective of the `depth' value.
-- asn1 -------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4129 - Now gives the compiler an apropriate error report when
exported undefined types are detected.
OTP-4161 - The type ObjectDescriptor is now supported, previously the
implementation of encode/decode for this rarely used type
was incomplete.
OTP-4200 - In case of per and compact_bit_string the rightmost byte
were erronous truncated when the rightmost bits of that
byte were zeros. This is now corrected.
OTP-4232 - Bad match of returnvalue from decode_length in skipvalue/3
has now been fixed.
OTP-4234 - Now is decode of ENUMERATED handled correctly, when tagged
EXPLICIT.
OTP-4242 - The compiler now parses and handles the ValueFromObject
construct.
OTP-4248 - Now does the compiler handle the case when the object set
in simple table and componentrelation constraints is of a
CLASS without a UNIQUE field. In this case is the octets,
which is assumed to be encoded, encoded as an open type.
OTP-4275 - Compiler handles objects in AdditionalElementSetSpec in
ObjectSetSpec, i.e. the objects that are referred to after
the ellipses in an object set.
OTP-4358 - Now are values with a component of type CHOICE encoded with
indefinite length correctly decoded.
OTP-2741 - The language constructs (from the old 1988 standard) ANY
and ANY DEFINED BY are now implemented.
OTP-4235 - Now it is checked in run-time if a OBJECT IDENTIFIER value
is unvalid.
OTP-4247 - The ASN.1 types EXTERNAL,EMBEDDED PDV and CHARACTER STRING
now have full support in the compiler.
OTP-4355 - A driver in C does the final job (complete) of the PER
encoding when files are compiled with per_bin and optimize
flags. It gives significant faster encoding for PER.
OTP-4381 - Encode and decode of PER encoding has been made faster by
moving analysis done in run-time to compile-time. These
optimizations are available by
compiling ASN.1 files with options per_bin and optimize.
OTP-4353 - Proper length encoding and padding implemented for a BIT
STRING with NamedNumberList and size constraint as value
range. This functionality didn't work in the rare occasion
when the NamedNumberList is shorter than the lower bound of
the constraint.As in this example:
TestS ::= BIT STRING {a (0),b (1)} (SIZE (3..8))
OTP-4354 - Bug in compiler, when an OBJECT IDENTIFIER value consisting
of two identifiers (Defined values or Name form
identifiers) was falsely interpreted causing a compiling
error is now corrected.
OTP-4390 - Internal error in check phase that caused crash on
ObjectClassFieldType in ber_bin is corrected.
OTP-4395 - Tags for open types are handled according to x.680 30.6c,
i.e. open types shall not be tagged IMPLICIT.
-- ic ---------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4341 - Module info vsn replaced by app_vsn.
OTP-4367 - IC-4.1.2 disabled the definition of float
constants beginning with a zero (e.g. 0.14).
OTP-4368 - IC did not recognize all reserved words defined in the
OMG specification (2.3.1). The new keywords are fixed,
abstract, custom, factory, local, native, private,
public, supports, truncatable, 'ValueBase' and
valuetype. But for now this is only active for the
erl_corba backend and only incorrect usage of
fixed, since this datatype is now supported,
triggers an error for this backend.
OTP-4365 - It was not possible to use wchar or wstring inside a
union body when using the Java backend.
OTP-4386,
OTP-3231 - The compile options this and handle_info
did not behave as described in the documentation. The
timeout now behaves as, for example, handle_info.
OTP-4387 - If we typedef a sequence, which contains a struct or a
union, the access function id/0 returned an incorrect IFR Id
if a prefix pragma was used.
OTP-4388,
OTP-4392 - If an IDL file contained a prefix pragma, incorrecct
IFR-id's was generated in the IFR-registration operation
oe_register for aliases (typedef) and
attributes.
OTP-4391 - For C back-ends, when encodings/decodings failed, memory
allocated for variable size parameter types was not freed.
OTP-4393 - If an IDL file contained a multiple typedef
(e.g. typedef string str1, str2;), the oe_unregister
operation failed to remove all data, in this case str2,
from the IFR.
OTP-4400 - IC did not recognize octet-constants
(e.g. const octet octetmax = 255;).
OTP-4401 - Negative 'long long' constants was not accepted
(e.g. const long long MyConstant = -1;).
- - For Erlang and C back-ends an IC version stamp has been
added to generated source code. This stamp i preserved in
compiled target code.
- - For C backends an assert() expression has been
added to generated code. That expression asserts that the
result of a memory allocation size calculation is strictly
positive. An error will result in a printout and an
abort(). The assertion can be inhibited by defining
the macro NDEBUG (according to ANSI C).
- - If the assertion is inhibited, and a size calculation error
is detected, an INTERNAL CORBA exception is set.
-- debugger ---------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4418 - Debugger would crash in an hipe-enabled emulator
-- misc -------------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-4352 - Starting slave nodes (with slave module) could fail on
Windows 2000. The problem was incorrect quoting of
arguments in combination with the -detached flag to the
windows emulator. The quoting is now corrected and the slave
module now works as expected.
Port programs using WriteFile to standard output from
multiple threads could fail due to the fact that the
inherited pipe was opened for overlapped I/O on w2k. This
is no longer the case, the pipes are opened in "normal"
mode (non overlapped) at the port program end.
The registry driver could crash the system due to
buffersize miscalculations, this is now corrected.
- - The limit on simultaneously open ports on one erlang machine
under windows is also raised.
OTP-4427 - The source was cleaned up to reduce the number of
compiler warnings and improve the compatibility.
-- EOF --