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+Tue Dec 31 18:27:50 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/Log_Msg.cpp (log): Added a test so that if we're
+	  (1) not printing to stderr and (2) aborting the program we still
+ 	  print a message to stderr.
+
+	* ace/Message_Block: Added synchronization support to
+ 	  ACE_Message_Block.  This is necessary now that we've got
+ 	  reference counting to ensure that we don't have race conditions
+ 	  when incrementing and decrementing the reference count in
+ 	  separate threads.  The approach is very clean and uses the new
+ 	  ACE_Lock mechanism to conditionally acquire()/release() the
+ 	  locking strategy if concurrency control is necessary.
+
+	* ace/Synch_T: Created a new set of ACE_Lock and
+ 	  ACE_Lock_Adapter<> classes which are similar in spirit to the
+ 	  ACE_Allocator and ACE_Allocator_Adapter<> classes.  These make
+ 	  it possible to treat polymorphically synchronization mechanisms
+ 	  in ACE polymorphically, *without* creating an entire new
+ 	  parallel hierarchy of locking mechanisms.
+
+	* ace/Synch: Added the full suite of acquire_{read|write}() and
+ 	  tryacquire_{read|write}() methods to ACE_Semaphore and
+ 	  ACE_Process_Semaphore so they will be consist with the other
+ 	  synchronization APIs.
+
+Tue Dec 31 00:11:56 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* Changed all uses of ACE_Event_Handler::RWE_MASK to 
+	  ACE_Event_Handler::ALL_EVENTS_MASK to reflect the fact that
+	  we will soon have more than READ, WRITE, and EXCEPT events.
+	  However, I've kept RWE_MASK around for backwards
+	  compatibility.
+
+	* examples/ASX/Message_Queue: Changed the tests so that they use
+ 	  the new ACE_Message_Block::release() method rather than calling
+ 	  delete explicitly.
+
+	* apps/Gateway: Revised the implementation of the Gateway and Peer
+ 	  applications to take advantage of the new ACE_Message_Block
+ 	  reference counting scheme.
+
+Tue Dec 31 15:06:51 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/Task.cpp: added comments that try to explain interaction
+          between ACE_Task_Base::svc_run () and ACE_Task_Exit instance
+
+	* ace/Hi_Res_Timer.h: added comment to print_total () saying it
+	  should only be used for incremental timings; added defaults to
+	  a few print_ave/print_total args
+
+	* ace/Hi_Res_Timer.{i,cpp}: inlined the constructor; trimmed output
+	  if count is 1; rounded instead of truncated usecs portion of time
+
+Mon Dec 30 15:24:59 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/Message_Block: Added reference counting to ACE_Message_Block
+ 	  so that we no longer have to clone() messages when we want to
+ 	  pass them around "by reference."
+
+	* apps/Gateway/Peer/Peer.cpp (init): The Peer_Acceptor had gotten
+ 	  out of date wrt newer ACE features, so I updated it.
+
+Mon Dec 30 15:24:59 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/OS.h: Added a special case for ACE_UNUSED_ARG that works
+ 	  with G++.  Thanks to David Levine for this.
+
+Mon Dec 30 16:05:11 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/OS.cpp (ace_thread_adapter): Updated ACE_TRACE arg
+	  names (even though they're currently commented out).
+
+	* ace/Task.cpp (svc_run): If TSS isn't supported, and on
+	  Linux, for now, create the ACE_Task_Exit exit_hook instance
+	  on the stack so that it's destructor will be called when
+	  svc_run () completes.
+
+Sun Dec 29 18:38:03 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* apps/Gateway/Gateway/File_Parser.h: Removed the endofline()
+ 	  method declaration -- it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere.
+
+	* ace/OS.h: Added an ACE_INT32 to complement the ACE_UINT32.
+
+	* netsvcs/lib: Cleaned up all the ACE network services by removing
+ 	  their SIGINT signal handler.  This was interferring with the
+ 	  main event loop's ability to shutdown...
+
+	* apps/Gateway/Gateway: Once again changed the name of
+ 	  *IO_Handler* to *Proxy_Handler* since these things are really
+ 	  proxies, in the COS sense!
+
+	* ace/Service_Record.cpp: Tidied up the implementation of
+ 	  ACE_Module_Type::fini() so that it doesn't try to call fini() on
+ 	  NULL pointers.  Also, rather than explicitly deleting the reader
+ 	  and writer Tasks, we call ACE_Module<>::close(), which knows how
+ 	  to take care of all this stuff.
+
+	* ace/Module.cpp: Added an extra parameter to close_i() so that we
+ 	  can correctly pass the value of "flags" from close() in order to
+ 	  prevent deleting tasks when we don't want to do this.
+
+	* ace/Module.cpp: There was a bug in the open() method
+ 	  since we were potentially deleting reader_q and writer_q twice
+ 	  if memory allocation failed.
+
+Sat Dec 28 19:02:13 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/ACE.cpp: Changed the implementation of ldfind() so that it
+ 	  doesn't try to add the DLL prefix (e.g., "lib") unless it
+ 	  doesn't match filename.  This is necessary to keep lots
+ 	  of existing svc.conf files from breaking.
+
+	* ace/Event_Handler.h: Added a new ACCEPT_MASK for use with the
+ 	  new asynchronous accept() operation support for Win32.
+
+	* ace: Added a new config file for WinNT 4.0 called
+ 	  config-winnt-4.0-msvc4.x.h.  This file contains #defines for new
+ 	  features in WinNT 4.0 such as non-blocking acquire for
+ 	  CRITICALSECTIONs (TryEnterCriticalSection()),
+ 	  SignalObjectAndWait(), and CancelIO().  Oddly enough, these
+ 	  functions seem to be missing from the MSVC++ 4.2 #include files,
+ 	  so I added them to the config file.
+
+	* ace: Changed the name of config-win32-msvc4.0.h to
+ 	  config-win32-msvc4.x.h since this config file works for MSVC++
+ 	  4.0, 4.1, and 4.2.
+
+	* ace/Proactor: Added a new "cancel_io" method on the Proactor.
+  	  This makes it possible to cancel all I/O that is outstanding on
+ 	  a thread.  Thanks to Tim for help with this.
+
+Sat Dec 28 23:49:09 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/ReactorEx.h: Fixed some bugs with ACE_ReactorEx::dispatch.
+	  For instance, the index should only be incremented when handlers
+	  are dispatched.
+
+	* ace/OS.i: Fixed some typos regarding the ACE_cond_t for NT.
+
+	* examples/Reactor/Proactor/test_proactor.cpp: Dr. Schmidt and I
+	  hacked this to be way cool.  In particular, we no longer
+	  have to know the size of the files to be transferred in
+	  advance.  This scheme uses a clever protocol that shuts down 
+ 	  the Peer Handler when (1) all input from the file has arrived,
+ 	  (2) all output to the remote peer handler has been sent, and (3)
+ 	  all input from the remote peer handler has been received.
+	  The Peer Handler now uses calls close_writer on the stream
+	  to notify the remote peer when its done writing.  The Input
+	  File Handler sends an mb==0 to tell the Peer Handler when
+	  it's done reading from the file.  The Peer Handle uses a
+	  state variable to OR in all the different conditions for
+	  exiting.  It works.
+
+Fri Dec 27 23:39:19 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/Stream.cpp (pop): Modified the code so that we don't delete
+ 	  the Module we are popping unless the flags request this.
+
+	* ace/Service_Record.cpp (fini): Always make sure to first fini()
+ 	  each Module, then remove() (and delete) them.
+
+	* ace/Stream.cpp (remove): Updated the code so that we don't
+ 	  delete the Module unless the flags request this.
+
+Thu Dec 26 18:51:22 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/config-linux-lxpthreads.h: Has James CE Johnson's
+	  latest adjustments to this config file.
+
+Tue Dec 24 10:55:20 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/OS.cpp (ace_thread_adapter): Changed the message that is
+ 	  printed if we exit the thread.  Thanks to Luca for this
+ 	  suggestion.
+
+Tue Dec 24 15:38:43 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/OS.i (cond_destroy): added call to event_destroy ()
+	  for waiters_done_ on WTHREADS platforms
+
+	* ace/Future.cpp: added specialization of
+	  template class ACE_Atomic_Op<ACE_Thread_Mutex, int>;
+	  so that libACE is self-contained with respect to template
+	  instantiations (with g++, for example)
+
+	* ace/Malloc.cpp: added specialization of
+	  template class ACE_Atomic_Op<ACE_PROCESS_MUTEX, int>;
+	  so that libACE is self-contained with respect to template
+	  instantiations (with g++, for example)
+
+	* examples/Reactor/Misc/test_reactors.cpp,
+	  examples/Threads/future1.cpp, examples/Threads/future2.cpp,
+	  examples/Threads/manual_event.cpp, examples/Threads/task_two.cpp,
+	  performance-tests/Synch-Benchmarks/Benchmark.cpp,
+	  tests/Future_Test.cpp, tests/Reactors_Test.cpp: instantiate
+	  ACE_Atomic_Op with int instead of u_long so that it can use
+	  the specialization in libACE
+
+Tue Dec 24 12:49:21 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/OS.h (struct siginfo_t): added declaration of
+	  siginfo_t (ACE_HANDLE *handles) to match definition in
+	  OS.cpp.  Thanks to James Johnson for pointing this out.
+
+	* ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): fixed position of
+	  #endif /* !ACE_LACKS_THREAD_STACK_SIZE */ directive, it
+	  needed to be before the closing '}' of the block.  Thanks to
+	  James Johnson for pointing this out, also.
+
+	* ace/OS.cpp: don't include ace/ARGV.h except on WIN32 because
+	  it's only needed there, and don't compile ACE_Thread_Adapter on
+	  VxWorks to save space
+
+	* apps/Gateway/Peer/Gateway_Handler.h:  changed #include "Event.h"
+	  to be #include "Peer_Message.h" so that Peer_Header::ROUTING_ID
+	  can be referenced in the class declaration.  This subproject
+	  still doesn't build, though; I think that Event.h is needed.
+
+	* ace/OS.h (struct ACE_cond_t): declare waiters_done_ as
+	  ACE_sema_t on VxWorks only, to avoid recursive struct
+	  definition with ACE_event_t
+
+	* ace/OS.i (ACE_OS::cond_*): on VxWorks only, use sema
+	  operations on ACE_cond_t::waiters_done_ instead of event ops
+
+Tue Dec 24 10:55:20 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* examples/Threads/task_three.cpp (main): Changed the use of
+ 	  new-style C++ casts for ACE_Sig_Action to old-style C casts so
+ 	  that more picky compilers like GCC won't complain.  Thanks to
+ 	  Sandro Doro <alex@aureus.sublink.org> for reporting this.
+
+	* examples/Threads/task_two.cpp: Fixed a typo where int should be
+ 	  used as the type for ACE_Atomic_Op rather than u_long.  Thanks
+ 	  to David Levine for noticing this.
+
+	* ace/OS.i: Generalized the implementation of ACE_OS::cond_wait()
+ 	  so that it will work with Win32 and VxWorks.  Thanks to David
+ 	  Levine for pointing this out.
+
+	* ace/Synch_T.cpp: Removed ACE_Process_Condition since it isn't
+ 	  really feasible to implement this as a template.  At some point,
+ 	  it should be reimplemnted as a non-template that is only
+ 	  guaranteed to work on Solaris and some POSIX pthreads platforms.
+
+Sun Dec 22 21:23:57 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/Acceptor.cpp: replaced two statements that looked like this:
+	  "ptr && ptr->foo ()"  with "if (ptr) ptr-> foo()" to prevent
+	  compiler warnings about computed values that aren't used
+
+	* netsvcs/clients/Tokens/manual/manual.cpp: added explicit "int"
+	  return type to declaration of handle_exception (ACE_HANDLE) so
+	  that compilers don't complain about no type
+
+	* ASX/Event_Server/Event_Server/Options.cpp,
+	  ASX/UPIPE_Event_Server/Options.cpp: rearranged initializers
+	  in Options ctor to match declaration order
+
+Sun Dec 22 21:16:23 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@mambo.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+	* ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): added a new ACE_HAS_PTHREADS_XAVIER to
+ 	  deal with the sparam.sched_priority features of the Linux
+ 	  pthreads implementation.  Thanks to James Johnson for this.
+
+	* ace/OS.i (thr_setprio): I forgot to define int policy = 0;
+
+	* ace/SV_Semaphore_Simple.i: Removed the frigging LUSED macro and
+ 	  updated the ACE_SV_Semaphore_Simple::name_2_key() method to
+ 	  consider *all* the characters in the name.  This will help avoid
+ 	  nasty bugs when different lock names have a common prefix.
+
+	* ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp (ACE_Local_Name_Space): Added a call
+ 	  to "delete this->lock_" since we now allocate it dynamically.
+
+	* apps/Gateway/Gateway/gatewayd.cpp: Changed call to
+ 	  ACE_SVC_INVOKE from ACE_Gateway to Gateway.
+
+	* ace/OS.i: In function thr_sigsetmask changed the line:
+
+  	  #if defined (ACE_HAS_IRIX62_THREADS) 
+
+	  to 
+
+	  #if defined (ACE_HAS_IRIX62_THREADS) || defined (ACE_HAS_PTHREADS_XAVIER)
+
+	  Thanks to James CE Johnson <jcej@lads.com> for this.
+
+	* ace/config-linux-[lx]pthreads.h: Added a #define for the
+ 	  ACE_HAS_THREAD_SPECIFIC_STORAGE symbol.  Thanks to James CE
+ 	  Johnson <jcej@lads.com> for this.
+
+	* ace: created a new config file called config-linux-lxpthreads.h.
+	  This contains the ACE #defines necessary to use L. Xavier's
+	  threading package on Linux.  Thanks to James CE Johnson
+	  <jcej@lads.com> for this.
+
+	* build/gcc/ace/Synch: Moved the definition of the ACE_*Event
+ 	  classes *outside* of ACE_HAS_THREADS so that the Proactor will
+ 	  compile correctly even when there's no threading defined.
+
+	* ace/config-linux-pthread.h: Added #define ACE_MT_SAFE, which
+ 	  seems to have been missing.  Thanks to James Johnson for
+ 	  suggesting this.
+
+	* tests/TSS_Test.cpp: Now that we've got Chris Lahey's fixes for
+ 	  AIX we can run this test on AIX.
+
+	* ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Added a #ifdef for
+ 	  pthread_attr_setstacksize() for Linux pthreads, which doesn't
+ 	  seem to support this.  Thanks to James CE Johnson
+ 	  <jcej@lads.com> for this fix.
+
+	* ace/OS.i: Added DCE pthreads fixes for OSF/1 3.2.  Thanks to
+ 	  Harry Gunnarsson <hg@carmenta.se> for these.
+
+Sat Dec 21 13:54:45 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Synch_T: Integrated a solution that will allow MVS to use
+ 	  ACE_TSS.  The problem is that the MVS C++ compiler requires an
+ 	  extern "C" destructor function for pthread_key_delete and the
+ 	  ACE_TSS stuff uses a paramatized C++ destructor function
+          (ACE_TSS<TYPE>::cleanup).  To solve this, a new class
+          (ACE_TSS_Adapter) was created that encapsulates a thread
+ 	  specific object and it's associated C++ destructor.  The ACE_TSS
+ 	  methods were then modified so that they provide access to the
+ 	  thread specific object through the ACE_TSS_Adapter.  Also added
+ 	  a generic extern "C" cleanup routine that takes an
+ 	  ACE_TSS_Adapter as an argument. It then calls the adapters
+ 	  cleanup method passing it the saved address of the thread
+ 	  specific object.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr <gehr@sweng.stortek.com>
+ 	  for all of this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Updated the code so that it will work with MFC and
+          AfxBeginThread().  Thanks to Detlef for these changes.
+
+        * ace/README: Added two new #defines for ACE_LACKS_COND_T and
+          ACE_LACKS_RWLOCK_T to make it possible to define these in a
+          fine-grained manner for various platforms.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Restructured the ACE_HAS_THREADS section so that we
+          factor out the code for ACE_cond_t and ACE_rwlock_t so that it
+          is only defined if we don't support these features natively.
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx: Added a new "alertable" parameter to the
+          handle_events() method.  If alertable is true, then
+          WaitForMultipleObjectsEx is used as the demultiplexing call,
+          otherwise WaitForMultipleObjects is used.
+
+        * ace/Signal.cpp: Had to move a few things around so that the code
+          would compile for HP/UX.  Thanks to Neil B. Cohen
+          <nbc@metsci.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Acceptor.cpp: Updated the handle_close() method so that the
+          Acceptor shuts down the listen socket and prevents handle leaks.
+          Thanks to Irfan for reporting this.
+
+Thu Dec 19th 03:48:26 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp: Made sure that the mutexes are
+          getting named properly (both the mutex owned by the
+          Local_Name_space and the lock owned by the backing
+          store). For the time being I named these two to be the
+          extensions of the backing store file name.
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp: Replaced the create_manager code
+          such that we use the double check pattern. This is simpiler
+          and easy to understand compared to the current code.
+
+        * ace/Naming_Context.cpp: Gave the database name a default value.
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp: The lock_name should never be 0. This will
+          cause all instances of the same pool to get different
+          mutexes. 
+
+Sat Dec 21 09:43:35 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.{h,i}: fixes for VxWorks introduced in 4.1, and for
+          inlining: moved #include of OS.i after #defines but before
+          other ace #includes
+
+Thu Dec 19 15:58:09 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h, include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks*.GNU:
+          enable inlining on VxWorks by default
+
+Wed Dec 18 16:44:47 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp (dispatch): Changed this method to take an
+          int error parameter to set errno just before dispatching.
+          This allows us to better propagate overlapped I/O errors to the
+          handlers.
+
+Wed Dec 18 16:21:36 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.{h,i} and ace/INET_Addr.cpp:  more VxWorks
+          gethostbyname () tweaks
+
+Wed Dec 18 15:24:13 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp (ACE_Proactor): Initialize completion_port_ to
+          0.  This is the only way that CreateIoCompletionPort works
+          first time in.  ACE_INVALID_HANDLE makes it break.
+
+        * (ACE_Proactor): Added a call to CreateIoCompletionPort in the
+          constructor so that GetQueuedCompletionStatus can be called
+          before ACE_Proactor::initiate is called.  This is necessary if
+          an application is using the Proactor as a timer mechanism only.
+
+Tue Dec 18 7:58:07 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Proactor.i (get_handle): Changed this to return
+          ACE_INVALID_HANDLE on non Win32 platforms.  Also changed
+          shared_event_ from an ACE_Manual_Event to an ACE_Auto_Event.
+          This allows us to remove the call to reset from handle_signal.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Proactor/test_timeout.cpp:  Added a new example
+          application to the Proactor example suite.  Check the README for
+          more details.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_timeout.cpp:  Added a new example
+          application to the ReactorEx example suite.  Check the README for
+          more details.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp:  Fixed a bug in run_reactorEx_event_loop
+          (ACE_Time_Value &) so that it doesn't return on timeout.
+
+Tue Dec 18 7:06:32 1996    <harrison@samba.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp (handle_events): Once again removed the
+          timer_skew_ code.  Changed the ACE_HANDLE global_handle_ to
+          ACE_Manual_Event shared_event_.  Added a constructor that takes
+          an ACE_Timer_Queue *.  Changed the implementation to use an
+          ACE_OS::sleep if only timers are registered.  We need to figure
+          out a better approach than the sleep.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp (run_proactor_event_loop): Changed this
+          to only return when an error occurs.  If handle_events returns a
+          0, then a timeout occurred, and we can continue to dispatch
+          events.  We only return when all of the time has expired.
+
+        * ace/Registry_Name_Space.h (ACE_Registry_Name_Space): Moved the
+          include statements below the ACE_WIN32 and UNICODE directives.
+
+        * ace/OS.h (siginfo_t): Added siginfo_t (ACE_HANDLE *handle)
+          constructor prototype.
+
+Wed Dec 18 06:37:22 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i (cond_wait): Added the new algorithm for condition
+          variable emulation on Win32. (and VxWorks).  This should fix the
+          nasty problems we had with earlier version (which weren't
+          "fair").  Thanks to James Mansion, Karlheinz, Detlef, and Irfan
+          for helping with this.
+
+        * ace/Registry.h: Removed the "ACE_TURN_NOMINMAX_OFF" stuff
+          in order to simplify the code.  Thanks to Irfan for this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (sema_post): Added a new overloaded version of
+          ACE_OS::sema_post(), which takes a "release count."  This is the
+          number of times to release the semaphore.  Note that Win32
+          supports this natively, whereas on POSIX we need to loop...
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp (handle_events): Changed the Proactor logic so
+          that it will correctly propagate any errors that occur to the
+          handle_{input,output}_complete callback.
+
+Tue Dec 17 20:56:56 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.{h,i}: on VxWorks: implemented ACE_OS::gethostbyname (),
+          and fixed inet_ntoa () to return -1 on failure
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: in ::spa () for VxWorks, zero out unused argv[]
+          slots to overwrite args from previous invocations OS.cpp
+
+Tue Dec 17 04:27:07 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx: Added a new feature to the ReactorEx.  If we
+          enable the wait_all flag when calling
+          ACE_ReactorEx::handle_events() *and* we give an
+          ACE_Event_Handler (this is a new final param to the call) then
+          the handle_signal() call will be invoked on this
+          "wait_all_callback" object when all the handles become signaled.
+          Moreover, we pass in the array of signaled handled to through
+          the siginfo_t parameter (see the following ChangeLog entry for
+          details).  If there is no wait_all_callback param, then all the
+          handle_signal() methods are invoked on all the handles.
+
+        * ace/OS.h (siginfo_t): Augmented the siginfo_t interface so that
+          we can pass an array of signaled Win32 HANDLEs, in addition to
+          just a single HANDLE.  This is used in the ReactorEx.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_reactorEx.cpp: Added a number of
+          enhancements to this test program based on discussions with
+          Irfan, Karlheinz, Dieter, and Detlef.
+
+        * ace/Task_T.i (msg_queue): If we override the existing definition
+          of the Message_Queue in an ACE_Task then we need to delete the
+          existing Message_queue (if necessary and mark the Message_Queue
+          as no longer being a candidate for deletion (since we have
+          supplied our own definition).  Irfan had added this earlier, but
+          it seemed to get lost...
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Proactor/test_proactor.cpp: The class called
+          STDIN_HANDLEr is misnamed since we don't read from stdin, we
+          read from a file.  Therefore, I've changed this to be
+          Input_File_Handler.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_{proactor,reactorEx}.cpp:
+          Changed misspellings of transfered to transferred.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.cpp (ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool): Since NT doesn't support
+          SIGSEGV thre's no point in even trying to register for this
+          signal!
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Reverted some lost UNICODE fixes -- thanks to Irfan
+          for finding these.
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp (create_manager_i): Removed a
+          debug statement since it may be causing problems with printing
+          UNICODE.
+
+Mon Dec 16 11:25:55 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i (cuserid): Fixed the definition to ACE_OS::cuserid() so
+          that it uses LPTSTR.  Thanks to Irfan for this fix.
+
+        * ace/Task.cpp (activate): In ACE_Task::activate() there is a possibility to actually 
+          "reactivate" the task using the <force_activate> flag. The following 
+          illustrates that ability:
+     
+          if (this->thr_count_ > 0 && force_active == 0)
+            return 1; // Already active.
+          else
+            this->thr_count_ = n_threads; 
+     
+         The thing is that, when the task is running and we reactivate it 
+         (actually we add threads) the command should be:
+     
+         this->thr_count_ +=  n_threads; 
+     
+         rather than
+     
+         this->thr_count_ = n_threads;
+     
+         That way <this->thr_count_> holds the new number of threads currently 
+         associated with the task.  Thanks to Hamual for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (inet_aton): Placed the return 1 within the curly
+          braces to make the HP/UX compiler happy.  Thanks to Kenny Want
+          for reporting this.
+
+Mon Dec 16 12:56:43 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i: removed spurious "*/" after an #endif.  Thanks to
+          Harry Gunnarsson <hg@carmenta.se> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf_l.cpp: #ifdef'ed out ace_yyunput () and
+          ace_yy_{push,pop,top}_state () because they're not used,
+          and commented out a few "break"s after "return"s in switch
+          statements to prevent compiler warnings.
+
+        * ace/Typed_SV_Message.i: reordered initializations in ctor to 
+          match declaration order.
+
+        * examples/Threads/Makefile, performance-tests/Misc/Makefile,
+          tests/Makefile:
+          Removed "LIBS += -lm" from these Makefiles because it doesn't
+          appear to be necessary, and not all platforms have a libm.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos4_g++.GNU, platform_sunos5_g++.GNU,
+          platform_sunos5_x86_g++.GNU, platform_unixware_g++.GNU:
+          added -lm to LIBS because it was removed from the Makefiles, and
+          it's needed with g++.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Makefile: removed /pkg/gnu/lib dependencies.  Thanks
+          to Per Andersson <Per.Andersson@hfera.ericsson.se> for pointing
+          this out.
+
+        * netsvcs/servers/svc.conf: changed _make_ACE_Logger() to
+          _make_ACE_Logging_Strategy() svc.conf.  Thanks to Per Andersson
+          <Per.Andersson@hfera.ericsson.se> for reporting this.
+
+Sun Dec 15 13:01:17 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Naming_Context.cpp: reordered initializations in default ctor
+          to match declaration order.
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf_y.cpp: added parens to a couple of combined
+          assignments/conditionals to avoid compiler warnings.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++*.GNU: reverted
+          SOLINK step back to creating real .so files, because it
+          seems to be necessary, sometimes, for template instantiation.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Server_Logging_Handler.cpp: removed ACE_INLINE's.
+
+        * tests/MM_Shared_Memory_Test.cpp: declare shm_key as char[]
+          instead of char *, so that the string gets put into the data
+          segment rather than the text segment.  The string gets modified,
+          which causes a core dump with the g++/SunOS5.5 build if the string
+          is in the text segment.
+
+Sun Dec 15 10:29:20 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * netsvcs/servers/svc.conf: Removed the "lib" prefix for the
+          netsvcs DLL.  This is now added automatically by the
+          ACE::ldfind() operation.
+
+        * ace/SString.cpp (ACE_CString): Removed the #pragmas for Win32.
+          They aren't necessary since we should replace the ACE_USHORT16
+          cast with a char cast.  Thanks to Amos Shapira <amos@dsi.co.il>
+          for reporting this.
+
+Sat Dec 14 14:25:38 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * build/SunOS5.5/tests/UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp (main): Fixed several
+          minor bugs with UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_join): Added implementations for Solaris threads
+          and most versions of POSIX pthreads where ACE_hthread_t and
+          ACE_thread_t are the same type!
+
+        * ace/OS: Began adding hooks so that we can eventually move away
+          from the current split between ACE_thread_t and ACE_hthread_t
+          and unify them via ACE_Thread_ID.
+
+        * ace/{OS,Thread}.h: Changed the interface of thr_getprio() so
+          that it takes an int & rather than an int *.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_getprio): Fixed a minor bug for Win32 where we
+          weren't depositing the thread priority into the return value!
+
+        * Makefile: Changed the order in which things are built so that
+          netsvcs are built right after libACE, followed by the tests.
+
+Sat Dec 14 11:54:22 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway/Consumer_Map: Change the Consumer_Map class
+          so that it was no longer templatized.  There isn't any point in
+          doing this since we aren't going to be changing these types for
+          this application.
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway: Factored out the code for selecting the
+          concurrency strategy into a separate *.h file called
+          Concurrency_Strategy.h.
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway: Began revising the Gateway application to
+          use the new ACE Event Channel.
+
+        * ace/Svc_Handler: Now that we've got put() and svc() with no-op
+          defaults in class ACE_Task_Base, we don't need them in
+          ACE_Svc_Handler anymore, so I removed them!
+
+        * ace/Task: Finally got sick of having to provide no-op
+          open()/put()/close() routines in all ACE_Task subclasses, so I
+          changed these methods from pure virtual to virtual with default
+          no-op behavior.  Updated all the tests, as well.
+
+Sat Dec 14 11:39:15 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/{Module,Stream,Svc_Handler,Synch_T,Task_T}.cpp and Synch_T.i:
+          removed ACE_INLINE qualifier from functions in .cpp files; in
+          the case of Synch_T, moved ACE_INLINE functions from .cpp to .i file
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway/Routing_Table.cpp,
+          examples/ASX/Event_Server/Event_Server/Peer_Router.cpp,
+          examples/ASX/UPIPE_Event_Server/Peer_Router.cpp:
+          removed ACE_INLINEs from .cpp files
+
+        * ace/CORBA_Handler.h and ace/Token_Collection.{h,cpp}:
+          changed __INLINE__ to __ACE_INLINE__
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf_y.cpp:  commented out unused arguments to
+          suppress compiler complaints
+
+Fri Dec 13 22:07:11 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++*.GNU: replaced
+          SOLINK step in build of shared objects for SunOS5 with SunC++
+          with symlink from .so to .o file.
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h: added ACE_NEEDS_SYSTIME_H to VxWorks
+          configs because it's needed with inlining
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks*.GNU: cleaned up VxWorks
+          config files
+
+Fri Dec 13 00:53:34 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Replaced all uses of 
+        
+          #if defined (.....) // ....
+          
+          with
+          
+          #if defined (.....) /* ... */
+
+          so that broken C++ compilers won't complain.  Thanks to
+          John Cosby <John.D.Cosby@cpmx.saic.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Thread.i: Updated the signature of getprio() and setprio()
+          so that they take ACE_hthread_t.  Thanks to Wayne Vucenic
+          <wvucenic@netgate.net> for finding this.
+
+        * Reran all the tests on NT and Solaris.  Everything seems to
+          work.  Therefore, incremented the version number to 4.1 and put
+          it out for ftp and http.
+
+Thu Dec 12 18:51:04 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/Priority_Task_Test.cpp (svc): Added a new test to exercise
+          the new "priority" feature of ACE_OS::thr_create()
+          (which is also available to ACE_Task).
+
+        * ace/Thread: Added getprio() and setprio() methods to ACE_Thread.
+
+Fri Dec 13 13:44:12 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h: added ACE_NEEDS_SYSTIME_H to VxWorks
+          configs because it's needed with inlining
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks*.GNU: cleaned up VxWorks
+          config files
+
+Thu Dec 12 18:51:04 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Added a new macro called ACE_UNUSED_ARG() to keep 
+          the compiler from outputting warnings about unused
+          arguments.  So far, this is mostly done for Win32, but it
+          should be easy to do it for other compilers.  Thanks
+          to Matthias for these changes.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: Added support so that thread priorities will
+          automatically be set when we spawn threads using
+          ACE_OS::thr_create().
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: Simplified the logic for handling NULL thr_handles
+          and thr_ids.  Now, we set all this stuff in one place at the
+          beginning of the function, rather than recomputing it all over
+          the place.
+
+        * ace/config-aix-{3.2.5,4.1.x}.h: Added the
+          ACE_HAS_RECURSIVE_THR_EXIT_SEMANTICS flag.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (ACE_Thread_Control): Conditionally
+          compiled the logic for calling this->exit() in the destructor
+          for ACE_Thread_Control so that we only make this call if
+          ACE_HAS_RECURSIVE_THR_EXIT_SEMANTICS is *not* set.  This will
+          prevent infinite recursion on platforms like AIX.  Thanks to
+          Chris Lahey for reporting this.
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway/Channel.cpp (recv_peer): Added the logic
+          that makes sure we don't get screwed up by partial headers.
+          Thanks to Chris Cleeland for this.
+
+Thu Dec 12 20:55:02 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++*.GNU: removed
+          SOLINK step in build of shared objects for SunOS5 with SunC++:
+          it's not necessary.
+
+Thu Dec 12 03:48:26 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Naming_Context: Modified ACE_Naming such that on Win32, you
+          can use ACE_Registry_Name_Space.
+        
+        * ace/Registry_Name_Space: ACE_Registry_Name_Space is a Name_Space
+          which uses ACE_Registry as the persistence mechanism.  Win32
+          clients of ACE_Naming can now start using (the more robust and
+          reliable) Registry persistence without any major code changes.
+
+        * tests/Naming_Test.cpp: Added the use of Registry_Name_Space to
+          the test if we are on Win32 and UNICODE is turned on.
+
+        * examples/Registry: Fixed UNICODE behavior of the tests
+
+Wed Dec 11 20:33:28 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lindy.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.h: Added a warning that indicates why it isn't
+          possible to use ACE_Process_Condition<ACE_Process_Mutex> on
+          Win32...
+
+        * tests/TSS_Test.cpp: Moved the Errno class to a file
+          TSS_Test_Errno.h and replaced the Errno class with the #include
+          "TSS_Test_Errno.h" to work around "features" with AIX C++'s
+          template instantiation scheme.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (inet_aton): Replaced the use of ((ACE_UINT32) -1) with
+          ((ACE_UINT32) ~0).  I expect this is more portable...
+
+        * tests/run_tests.bat: Added "Service_Config_Test" to the
+          run_tests.bat file.
+
+Tue Dec 10 22:59:26 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests: Added Service_Config_Test to Win32 makefiles.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (inet_aton): We need to cast htonl to (long)
+
+        * tests: Added/Fixed UNICODE behavior of the following:
+
+          MM_Shared_Memory_Test.cpp
+          Mem_Map_Test.cpp 
+          Mutex_Test.cpp
+          Naming_Test.cpp 
+          Process_Mutex_Test.cpp 
+          SPIPE_Test.cpp
+          Time_Service_Test.cpp 
+          Tokens_Test.cpp 
+          UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp
+
+        * netsvcs/lib: Added/Fixed UNICODE behavior of the following:
+          ACE_TS_Clerk_Processor::poolname_
+        
+Tue Dec 10 00:33:08 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/Service_Config_Test.cpp (main): Added a new method called
+          run_test() to ensure that ACE_Service_Config daemon is destroyed
+          before we try to end the test.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (inet_aton): We need to cast -1 to (ACE_UINT32).
+
+        * tests/Process_Mutex_Test.cpp (main): Added a minor change to
+          make gcc happy by moving the definition of int i *outside* the
+          loop.  Thanks to Thilo Kielmann
+          <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: gcc complains about memcmp, memcpy, strcmp, and strcpy
+          (from ACE_OS::) being used before defined inline.  This is due
+          to the include of SString.h at the end of OS.h.  So I reordered
+          things in accordance to the changes from Thilo Kielmann
+          <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de>.
+
+        * build/SunOS5.5/examples/Shared_Malloc/test_multiple_mallocs.cpp:
+          Changed the definition of char *base_addr to void *base_addr.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.cpp (ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool_Options): Changed the
+          definition of char *base_addr to void *base_addr.
+
+        * Put out what is hopefully the final beta release of 4.0.33.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue: Added the enqueue() method again to maintain
+          backwards compatibility.  Thanks to Karlheinz for pointing out
+          the need for this.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.h: The svc.conf factory functions were 
+          begin defined as extern "C", but the function pointer defined in
+          the ACE_Static_Svc_Descriptor struct is not declared as extern
+          "C", therefore, there was a mismatch.  Here's how to fix this:
+
+          In Service_Config.h, before the struct ACE_Static_Svc_Descriptor
+          add:
+ 
+          extern "C" {
+            typedef ACE_Service_Object *(*ACE_SERVICE_ALLOCATOR)(void);
+          }
+ 
+          Then in the struct alloc_ field was changed as follows:
+ 
+          from:  ACE_Service_Object *(*alloc_)(void);
+          to:    ACE_SERVICE_ALLOCATOR alloc_;
+ 
+          Thanks to Chuck Gehr for this.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.cpp (commit_backing_store_name): Changed uses of
+          "counter" from int to size_t to remove warnings.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp: Reimplemented the ACE::daemonize() method to
+          conform to the latest version in Richard Steven's new UNP book.
+
+        * ace/INET_Addr.cpp (set): Replaced the use of ACE_OS::inet_addr()
+          with ACE_OS::inet_aton().  Thanks to W. Richard Stevens for this
+          idea ;-).
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new function called inet_aton(), which is based
+          on a new POSIX socket addressing function that is non-ambiguous
+          in its return value (unlike inet_addr).
+
+        * tests: Added a new Service_Config_Test.cpp to make sure that the
+          timeout features mentioned below work.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp: Changed the implementation of
+          run_{reactor,proactor,reactorEx}_event_loop so that it returns
+          if the corresponding handle_events() method times out.
+          Thanks to Phil Logan <phill@in.ot.com.au> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/LSOCK_Stream: Moved get_remote_addr() from the private part
+          of the class and implemented it using get_local_addr().  This
+          fixes problems that previously occurred when using the
+          ACE_Connector with ACE_LSOCK_Stream.  Thanks to Stuart Powell
+          <stuartp@in.ot.com.au> for this suggestion.
+
+Mon Dec  9 22:03:30 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Threads: Updated the test.mak and test.mdp files to
+          reflect the new name changes.  Thanks to Matthias for this.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (ldfind): Added new code that will work if the
+          "base" part of the filename to look for is the same on both UNIX
+          and NT. The library name will be made up of three parts
+          [ACE_DLL_PREFIX]base part[ACE_DLL_SUFFIX], where prefix is "lib"
+          on UNIX and nothing on NT and suffix is ".dll" on NT and ".so"
+          on UNIX. If either prefix or suffix are missing from the
+          filename you supply to ldfind they will be added
+          automagically. This all will work independent from the pathname,
+          which will be treated completely separately from the filename
+          and can contain either UNIX style or NT style separators.
+
+          Examples:
+          Source               NT                       UNIX
+          ===============================================================
+          netsvc               netsvc.dll               libnetsvc.so
+                               (PATH will be evaluated) (LD_LIBRARY_PATH evaluated)
+
+          libnetsvc.dll        libnetsvc.dll            libnetsvc.dll + warning
+          netsvc.so            netsvc.so + warning      libnetsvc.so 
+
+          ..\../libs/netsvc    ..\..\libs\netsvc.dll     ../../libs/libnetsvc.so
+                               (absolute path used)         (absolute path used)
+
+          The first and the last of these 4 examples is the way the new
+          functionality is supposed to be used. You simple supply the
+          pathname and the base part of the filename and ldfind will
+          figure everything out.
+
+          Thanks to Tilo Chris for this code.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new macro called ACE_DLL_PREFIX, which is
+          defined to "" on Win32 and "lib" on UNIX.  Thanks to Tilo for
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (detach): After further thought, I 
+          have commented out the
+          
+          eh->reactor (0);
+          
+          call since I don't think we really need it.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (detach): There was a problem with
+          ACE_Reactor::detach().
+
+          The following lines:
+
+          // Reinitialize the Reactor pointer to 0.
+          eh->reactor (0);
+
+          should be moved before:
+
+          eh->handle_close (handle, mask);
+
+          This will render the reactor handle not available in the
+          handle_close method but at least handle_close can delete itself.
+          Thanks to Luca for reporting this.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Ntalker: Replaced the use of ACE_OS::getopt()
+          with the ACE_Get_Opt iterator.  Thanks to Alexandre Karev
+          <Alexandre.Karev@cern.ch> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Moved the #endif /* ACE_HAS_DCETHREADS ||
+          ACE_HAS_PTHREADS */ once again in order to make sure that the
+          right things happen when #if defined (ACE_HAS_THREADS) is
+          *false*.  Thanks to Robert Lyng <RLyng@msmail.hsii.ccare.com>
+          for reporting this.
+
+Mon Dec  9 02:06:48 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/SString: Made accessors return const references.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added macro ACE_WIDE_STRING which allows the
+          conversion of char* to wchar_t* when UNICODE is turned on.
+        
+        * ace: Added/Fixed UNICODE behavior of the following:
+
+          /* Local_Name_Space */
+          ACE_Local_Name_Space_T::context_file_
+        
+          /* ACE */
+          ACE::basename
+        
+          /* Token */
+          ACE_Token::ACE_Token 
+
+          /* Synch */
+          ACE_File_Lock::ACE_File_Lock
+
+          /* SPIPE_Addr */
+          ACE_SPIPE_Addr::addr_to_string
+          ACE_SPIPE_Addr::set   
+        
+          /* FILE_Addr */
+          ACE_FILE_Addr::addr_to_string
+        
+          /* DEV_Addr */
+          ACE_DEV_Addr::addr_to_string
+        
+          /* Addr */
+          ACE_Addr::addr_to_string
+          ACE_Addr::string_to_addr
+          Note: These two were removed from the base class since they are
+          not common to all Address classes.
+          
+          /* Malloc */
+          ACE_Allocator_Adapter::ACE_Allocator_Adapter
+          ACE_Malloc::ACE_Malloc
+        
+          /* Process */
+          ACE_Process::start
+        
+          /* Shared_Memory_MM */
+          ACE_Shared_Memory_MM::ACE_Shared_Memory_MM
+          ACE_Shared_Memory_MM::open
+
+          /* Proactor */
+          ACE_Overlapped_File::ACE_Overlapped_File
+          ACE_Overlapped_File::open
+
+          /* Log_msg */
+          ACE_Log_Msg::open
+
+          /* Naming_Context */
+          ACE_Name_Options::namespace_dir
+          ACE_Name_Options::process_dir
+          ACE_Name_Options::database
+
+          /* Registry */
+          ACE_Predefined_Naming_Contexts::connect
+          ACE_Predefined_Naming_Contexts::is_local_host
+
+          /* SString */
+          ACE_CString::ACE_CString
+          
+          /* Mem_Map */
+          ACE_Mem_Map::ACE_Mem_Map
+          ACE_Mem_Map::map
+        
+          /* Service_Config */
+          ACE_Service_Config::logger_key_
+
+          /* System_Time */     
+          ACE_System_Time::ACE_System_Time 
+        
+          /* Memory_Pool */
+          ACE_Sbrk_Memory_Pool::ACE_Sbrk_Memory_Pool
+          ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool::ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool 
+          ACE_Local_Memory_Pool::ACE_Local_Memory_Pool
+          ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool::ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool 
+          ACE_Lite_MMAP_Memory_Pool::ACE_Lite_MMAP_Memory_Pool
+        
+          /* OS */
+          ACE_OS::strstr
+          ACE_OS::strdup
+          ACE_OS::hostname        
+          ACE_OS::open    
+          ACE_OS::unlink
+          ACE_OS::dlopen
+          ACE_OS::dlsym
+          ACE_OS::cuserid
+          ACE_OS::fork_exec
+          ACE_OS::sprintf
+          ACE_OS::access
+          ACE_OS::fopen
+          ACE_OS::getenv
+          ACE_OS::system
+          ACE_OS::mkdir
+          ACE_OS::mktemp        
+        
+Sun Dec  8 19:00:45 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (handle_events): Updated this method to use the
+          ACE_Countdown_Time::update method after the mutex has been
+          acquired.
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.cpp (update): Added an ACE_Countdown_Time::update
+          method that calls stop and start.  This is useful for methods
+          such as ACE_Reactor::handle_events that need to update timeout
+          values after acquiring locks, but before waiting on the
+          demultiplexing mechanism (e.g. select).
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx.cpp (handle_events): Modularized the
+          implementation of handle_events.  Now it uses helper functions
+          to significantly simplify the implementation.  Also updated the
+          header file documentation.
+
+        * ace/Timer_Queue: Added a timer_skew_ data member and accessor
+          methods to ACE_Timer_Queue.  Also added an expire method that
+          calls gettimeofday and adds the timer_skew_ for you.  These
+          changes will help simplify Reactor, Proactor, and ReactorEx
+          code.
+
+        * ace/Reactor : Removed timer_skew_.  This code now just calles
+          timer_queue->expire () with no parameters.  Very clean.
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx : Removed timer_skew_ code.
+
+        * ace/Proactor : Removed timer_skew_ code.
+
+        * examples/Proactor/test_proactor.cpp: Fixed this application so
+          that it exits when all the data has been sent and received.
+          Previously, it used a cool timeout mechanism to "guess" when all
+          the data had been received.  Ahh, but we can't have too much
+          fun, or people start to get nervous.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp (run_reactorEx_event_loop (Time_Value)):
+          Fixed the implementation of this method.  It now handles
+          reactorEx events until end_reactorEx_event_loop is called, or
+          the specified time value expires.  Also fixed the
+          run_proactor_event_loop (Time_Value) method.
+
+        * examples/ReactorEx/test_timeout.cpp:  Added a new example
+          application that shows how to use
+          Service_Config::run_reactorEx_event_loop with timeouts.  Check
+          the examples/ReactorEx/README file for more details.
+
+        * examples/Proactor/test_timeout.cpp:  Added a new example
+          application that shows how to use
+          Service_Config::run_proactor_event_loop with timeouts.  Yes, this
+          screams for common dispatcher interfaces for Reactor, Proactor,
+          and ReactorEx.
+
+Sun Dec  8 10:27:19 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Service_Manager.cpp (init): Changed all uses of "int port"
+          to "u_short port" to be consistent with socket types.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (bind_port): Changed all uses of "int port" to
+          "u_short port" to be consistent with socket types.
+
+        * ace/Remote_Name_Space.cpp: Changed all uses of "int port" to
+          "u_short port" to be consistent with socket types.
+
+        * ace/SV_Semaphore_{Simple,Complex}: Changed all uses of "int n"
+          to "u_short n" to be consistent with the SYSV types!
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Moved the location of the ACE_HAS_USING_KEYWORD macros
+          until *after* we #include "ace/Time_Value.h".  Thanks to
+          Matthias for this.
+
+        * ace/Signal.cpp: Finished implementing the
+          ace_signal_handlers_dispatching logic, which wasn't done
+          entirely earlier.  Thanks to Alexandre Karev
+          <Alexandre.Karev@cern.ch> for reporting this.
+
+        * netsvcs/servers/main.cpp (main): Fixed several small bugs in the
+          netsvcs main test program.  Thanks to Alexandre Karev
+          <Alexandre.Karev@cern.ch> for finding this.
+
+        * ace/Reactor: Removed the timer_skew_ data member from the 
+          ACE_Reactor since this is now covered by the
+          ACE_Timer_Queue.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (handle_events): Added the new version of the
+          ACE_Countdown_Time to simplify the code.
+
+        * ace/Time_Value: Added a new class called ACE_Countdown_Time,
+          which is used by the Reactor, ReactorEx, and Proactor to keep
+          track of how much time elapsed.
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Added a change that forces the MSVC
+          compiler to reference the proper Winsock - lib during linking of
+          ACE.  This change is necessary because a) in the release version
+          the link to the winsock.lib was completly missing and b) only
+          wsock32.lib has been included (which is wrong when WinSock2 is
+          used).  Thanks to Matthias for this.
+
+        * ace/Module.cpp (ACE_Module): Added code to zero-out the
+          q_pair_[2] pointers.  Thanks to Matthias for this.
+
+        * tests: Removed the argv name from most main() functions so that
+          we don't get warnings...
+
+        * examples/Threads: Fixed some errors in the threads examples
+          directory, most of which are ambigious overloads.  Also included
+          a (MSVC 4.1) makefile for all tests in this directory.  Thanks
+          to Matthias for this.
+
+        * examples/Threads: Renamed all the files by removing the word
+          "test_" at the beginning.  This is redundant!
+
+        * tests/TSS_Test.cpp: If we are running AIX (i.e., if
+          ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_PRAGMA), then conditionally avoid
+          compiling this test program because it doesn't work unless we
+          split off class Errno due to AIX's rules for generating
+          templates.  This is too much work to get right...
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_self): Updated the conditional compilation tests
+          so that we check for ACE_HAS_THREAD_SELF first.  Thanks to Chris
+          Lahey for this.
+
+        * ace/{config-osf1-3.2.h,config-aix-4.1.x.h}: Updated this file so
+          that is has the new ACE_HAS_THREAD_SELF macro, which indicates
+          that the platform uses thread_self() rather than pthread_self().
+
+        * ace/config-aix-4.1.x.h: According to Chris Lahey
+          <Chris_Lahey@cccis.com>, AIX 4.1.x should have ACE_HAS_PTHREADS
+          rather than ACE_HAS_DCETHREADS.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Removed the thread_descriptor_i() methods
+          and replaced them by generalizing the find() method to become
+          find_thread() and find_hthread().  Thanks to Hamutal Yanay
+          <Hamutal_Yanay@mail.icomverse.com> for suggesting this.
+
+Sun Dec  8 14:39:53 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Timer_Queue: Added a timer_skew_ data member and accessor
+          methods to ACE_Timer_Queue.  Also added an expire method
+          that calls gettimeofday and adds the timer_skew_ for you.  These
+          changes will help simplify Reactor, Proactor, and ReactorEx
+          code.
+
+Sat Dec  7 01:14:04 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/Process_Mutex_Test.cpp: Added new test which checks the
+          functionality of a ACE_Process_Mutex.  Abandoned mutexes can be
+          created by selecting the correct command-line arguments.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_reactorEx.cpp: Reverted back to
+          old scheme which does not utilize traits.
+
+        * ace/Task_T.h: Removed the synchronization trait in Task. This is
+          because template typedefs are only supported by a few
+          platforms. Sigh ;-)
+
+Sat Dec  7 16:55:37 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp: Because thread_descriptor_i() only returns 
+          0 or -1 on failure the code for
+          ACE_Thread_Manager::thr_self(ACE_hthread_t &) should read:
+
+          if (-1 == this->thread_descriptor_i (id, td)) 
+            return -1;                                  
+          handle = &td.thr_handle_;                             
+ 
+          Thanks to Matthias for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new static instance of ACE_thread_key_t to work
+          around the pthreads implementation on MVS (which doesn't store
+          TSS keys as ints!).  Thanks to Chuck Gehr for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-mvs.h: Added #define ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_SOURCE for
+          MVS C++.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Signal.cpp: ace_dispatcher was being set to
+          ace_signal_handlers_dispatch() which calls
+          ACE_Sig_Handlers::dispatch (when ACE_HAS_SIC_C_FUNC is defined),
+          whereas it was set to ACE_SigHanlder::dispatch (no s) if not
+          defined.  I intended to set this to ace_signal_handler_dispatch
+          (no s).  Thanks to Chuck Gehr for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Makefile: Fixed a small typo where I wasn't matching char
+          *getenv in the sed regular expression.
+
+        * ace/{OS,Synch}: Moved various classes around so that things will
+          compile correctly when ACE_WIN32 is defined but ACE_HAS_THREADS
+          is *not* defined.  Thanks to Robert Lyng
+          <RLyng@msmail.hsii.ccare.com> for reporting this.
+
+Sat Dec  7 16:55:37 1996  Matthias Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de>
+
+        * ace/Module: Added some values to the enum so Module clients
+          can decide whether the reader, the writer or both should be
+          automatically deleted.
+
+        * ace/{Stream,Module,Task}: Changed some function arguments
+          from u_long to int (because enums are represented as ints).
+
+        * ace/Task: Added a new virtual function to ACE_Task_Base
+          (module_closed), which by default calls
+          ACE_Task_Base::close(1). Please note the changed flags
+          argument. This allows clients to differ between calls
+          originated from a Module and/or Stream from those which
+          result from ~ACE_Task_Exit().  ~ACE_Task_Exit() calls
+          ACE_Task_Base::close(0).  This may be or not be a problem to
+          existing applications. It may (hopefully not)
+          be neccessary to change ACE_Task_Base::module_close back to
+          calling ACE_Task_Base::close(0). 
+
+Fri Dec 06 14:44:20 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: added ::spa () function to allow command line args
+          to be passed to programs in VxWorks
+
+        * ace/OS.i: (ACE_OS::gettimeofday):  VxWorks returns nsec instead
+          of usec, so convert
+
+Fri Dec  6 01:21:48 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_reactorEx.cpp: Rewrote the
+          example such that the test now uses the new Notification
+          Strategy scheme in ACE.  This allows a message queue consumer to
+          wait in ReactorEx without spawning a new thread, or creating
+          extra Win32 events.  This make the example smaller and much
+          cleaner.
+
+        * ace/Task_T.h: Added synchronization trait to Task.
+
+        * ace/Task_T.i (msg_queue): Added a check to delete the old
+          message_queue if we had created it.
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx.cpp (remove_handler): Removed the call to set
+          reactorEx of the event handler to zero becauses the event
+          handler  may no longer be there after the handle_close()
+          completes. 
+
+Thu Dec 05 21:18:49 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Oops, needed to add another check if
+          thr_id == 0 before assigning *thr_handle = *thr_id, for systems
+          such as Solaris 2.4 that don't have PTHREADS.
+
+Wed Dec  4 09:09:56 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (log):  added printout to stderr before call
+          to exit().  Silent calls to exit() are bad :-}
+
+        * performance-tests/Synch-Benchmarks/Options.cpp (print_results):
+          only use rusage if ACE_HAS_PRUSAGE_T is #defined
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/SOCK_SAP/CPP-in{client,server}.cpp:
+          use blocking connect on VxWorks
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h: added ACE_LACKS_MPROTECT and
+          ACE_HAS_STRERROR
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks*: removed INCLDIRS and
+          added indlib.o to GreenHills LIBS
+
+        * Makefile (cleanrelease and release): changed "rm -r" of
+          ACE.tar.gz to "rm -f", that's probably what was meant
+
+Wed Dec  4 00:27:07 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc*.0.h: Added NOMINMAX.
+
+        * ace/Registry: Removed NOMINMAX and
+          VC_PLUS_PLUS_NESTED_CLASS_PROBLEM flags from the header file.
+          The VC_PLUS_PLUS_NESTED_CLASS_PROBLEM flag is no longer needed
+          and NOMINMAX is defined at the project level.  Thanks to
+          Matthias Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for suggesting this. 
+
+Mon Dec  2 14:13:44 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Changed all occurrences of ACE_Event_Handler
+          reactorex() to reactorEx() to be consistent.  Thanks to
+          Matthias for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.cpp (close): We didn't allocate the memory for
+          the notification_strategy_, so we darn well can't delete it!
+          Thanks to Matthias for finding this.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (ACE_TSS_cleanup): Made the ACE_TSS_cleanup
+          function extern "C" for MVS C++ and compilers like it...  Thanks
+          to Chuck Gehr for reporting this.
+
+        * tests/Naming_Test.cpp (main): Added delete ns_context to close
+          things down and free up the semaphores.  Thanks to David Levine
+          for suggesting this.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Misc/test_demuxing.cpp (handle_input): Fixed a
+          "typo" where we were accessing mb->msg_priority() *after*
+          deleting it!  Thanks to Matthias for finding this.
+
+Mon Dec  2 09:57:15 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/run_tests.*: updated lists of tests to be run
+
+        * tests/*.cpp: removed trailing .cpp from argument to
+          ACE_START_TEST because it would appear in the log file name
+
+Mon Dec  2 00:08:51 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp (dump): There was an error on line 19 of
+          Log_Record.cpp: 
+
+          ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "\npid_ = %s\n", this->pid_));
+
+          should be changed to:
+
+          ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "\npid_ = %d\n", this->pid_));
+
+          Thanks to Sandro Doro <alex@aureus.sublink.org> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Misc/test_handle_set.cpp: Updated the test to
+          remove a warning caused by sloppy nesting of loop counters.
+
+Mon Dec  2 00:23:23 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Strategies.{h,cpp}: Update the base-class and added
+          documentation.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: Added ACE_INIT_LOG, ACE_APPEND_LOG and
+          ACE_APPEND_LOG to facilitate the appending of log messages to a
+          file.  Also changed Pipe_Test to use this new mechanism.
+
+        * test/Naming_Test: Changed test to use "lite" implementation to
+          speed things up. 
+
+        * netsvcs/lib: Fixed multiple type mismatch warnings.
+        
+        * ace/ReactorEx: Fixed syntax errors in recently modified
+          ReactorEx.* files
+
+        * ace/ace.{mdp.mak}: Added Strategies.cpp to VC++ makefile.
+
+Sun Dec  1 19:19:02 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Service_Config: Moved the #inclusion of ace/Proactor.h and
+          ace/ReactorEx.h from the *.h file to the *.cpp file to avoid
+          problems with circular dependencies.
+
+        * ace/Reactor: Added a new parameter to the Reactor's
+          initialization methods so that we can install a subclass of
+          ACE_Timer_Queue.  This is in anticipation of Tim's new
+          "real-time" implementation of a timer queue.
+
+        * ace/Reactor: Changed the internal Reactor name
+          ACE_Notification_Handler to ACE_Reactor_Notify to be consistent
+          with the ACE_ReactorEx_Notify class.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Misc/test_demuxing.cpp: Revised this test so
+          that it now illustrates the new notification mechanism of the
+          ACE_Message_Queue class.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Misc: Changed the name of the signal_tester.cpp
+          file to test_demuxing.cpp, which is really what this does.
+
+        * ace/{Strategies,Message_Queue}: Created a suite of
+          "Notification Strategies" that are used with the new
+          ACE_Message_Queue notification scheme.  This works as
+          follows:
+
+          1. There's a new virtual hook method on ACE_Message_Queue
+             called notify().  Whenever a new Message_Block is
+             enqueued the notify() hook is called.  By default, this
+             does nothing. 
+
+          2. If you want to do something with the notify() hook, you
+             have two choices:
+   
+                a. You can subclass from ACE_Message_Queue and
+                   override this method.  This is an example of the
+                   "Template Method" pattern. 
+
+                b. You can configure an ACE_Notification_Strategy *
+                   into an ACE_Message_Queue.  An
+                   ACE_Notification_Strategy is the vehicle for
+                   extending the behavior of ACE_Message_Queue wrt
+                   notification *without subclassing*.  Thus, it's an
+                   example of the Bridge/Strategy patterns. 
+      
+          3. ACE_Notification_Strategy is defined in
+             ace/Strategies.{h,cpp}. There are two pre-defined
+             subclasses: 
+  
+                a. ACE_Reactor_Notification_Strategy -- integrates the
+                   ACE_Message_Queue notification into the
+                   ACE_Reactor::notify() method.
+
+                b. ACE_ReactorEx_Notification_Strategy -- integrates
+                   the ACE_Message_Queue notification into the
+                   ACE_ReactorEx::notify() method.
+
+          Both of these can be used almost identically in order to 
+          seamlessly integrate multiple threads of control, inserting 
+          ACE_Message_Blocks in one or more ACE_Message_Queues, with
+          the various ACE event demultiplexors (i.e., ACE_Reactor 
+          and ACE_ReactorEx).
+
+        * ace: Created a new pair of files called Strategies_T.cpp and
+          Strategies_T.h and move the template ACE_*Strategies classes
+          into those files.  This was necessary since there are now new
+          non-template notification strategies in Strategies.{h,cpp}.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue: Created a new "notification hook" mechanism
+          that makes it possible for event demuxers (like ACE_Reactor and
+          ACE_ReactorEx) to be informed automatically when a Message_Block
+          is inserted into the Message_Queue.  This is useful for
+          sitations where you'd like to integrate multiple threads (each
+          of which is pumping data into an ACE_Message_Queue) with an
+          ACE_Reactor or an ACE_ReactorEx.  Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff
+          <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> and Luca for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Modified the implementation of
+          ACE_Null_Condition_Mutex::wait() so that it always returns -1
+          and sets errno to ETIME.  This reflects the fact that if you'll
+          never be awakened if you "sleep" on a Null_Condition...
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx: Generalized the ACE_ReactorEx so that its
+          notify() method now behaves like the ACE_Reactor, i.e., it can
+          queue up ACE_Event_Handlers that are dispatched in the ReactorEx
+          thread of control.
+
+        * tests: Renamed the Shared_Memory_MM_Test.cpp to
+          MM_Shared_Memory_Test.cpp and remove the
+          Shared_Memory_SV_Test.cpp since it was redundant to the
+          SV_Shared_Memory_Test.cpp.
+
+        * tests/SV_Shared_Memory_Test.cpp (main): Revised the SVSV IPC
+          shared memory test to be more robust.
+
+        * ace/SV_Semaphore_Simple.cpp (open): If the char *name == 0 then
+          use ACE_DEFAULT_SEM_KEY instead.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool: Generalized the ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool so that
+          there can be more than 1 shared memory pool active at a time
+          (similar to what we did for ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool).
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.h: There was an unnecessary
+          ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex in ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool that was left
+          over from earlier days.  I've removed this.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.cpp (ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool): Revised
+          the constructor so that if we get a NULL pool_name we'll
+          initialize the 
+
+        * examples/Makefile: Added the System_V_IPC and Shared_Memory
+          directories.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.h: Added a virtual destructor to
+          ACE_Message_Queue so that it can be destroyed appropriately,
+          even if subclassed.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.h: Renamed enqueue() to enqueue_prio() to be
+          consistent with the other names (e.g., enqueue_head() and
+          enqueue_tail().  Updated the test programs to reflect this.
+
+Sun Dec  1 12:06:46 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h: Removed #define ACE_HAS_STRBUF_T:
+          copy and paste error
+
+Sun Dec  1 00:15:45 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: ACE_NEW_RETURN and ACE_NEW were reverted back to the
+          old implementation.  This is temporary till the infinite loop
+          problem with ACE_ERROR, ACE_DEBUG and ACE_TRACE being called
+          from ACE_Log_Msg::instance() is fixed.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Repositioned ACE_Semaphore such that there are no
+          problems in compiling ACE_Process_Semaphore under Win32. 
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Changed ACE_HAS_STL to
+          ACE_HAS_STANDARD_CPP_LIBRARY which is more descriptive (and what
+          is expected by stdcpp.h).
+
+        * ace/Registry.h: Added the setting of NOMINMAX and
+          VC_PLUS_PLUS_NESTED_CLASS_PROBLEM flags so that STL behaves
+          properly.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (open): Fixed a small bug such that msg_ostream
+          is only set this to cerr if it hasn't already been set.
+
+        * STL: Updated the STL directory will latest code from
+          http://www.rahul.net/terris/ and also added the original
+          readme2.stl file.  Created ACE_Changes which has the list of
+          changes made to the STL distribution.
+
+Sat Nov 30 12:02:00 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new pragma that disables warning #4097 in
+          MSVC++ (typedef-name used as synonym for class-name).  This
+          keeps Win32 clients from getting warning on Win32.  Thanks to
+          Matthias Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for this.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp: Created a new macro called ACE_NEW_RETURN_I,
+          which is used withing ACE_Log_Msg::instance().  We can't afford
+          to call ACE_LOG_MSG->instance() from within
+          ACE_Log_Msg::instance() or else we will recurse infinitely!
+          Thanks to Irfan for finding this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (mprotect): Added a #if !defined (ACE_LACKS_MPROTECT)
+          conditional compilation directive to support the EPLX real time
+          OS from CDC (based on LYNX).  Thanks to Alexandre Karev
+          <karev@cern.ch> for reporting this.
+
+Sat Nov 20 12:23:45 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/Naming_Test.cpp (main): Added code that creates a unique
+          backing store name and removes the backing store every time
+          the test is run.
+
+Fri Nov 29 12:54:12 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp (open): Changed tail->close() and head->close()
+          to delete tail and delete head now that we've got our new
+          changes.
+
+        * ace/Module: Moved the destructor from the private part of the
+          class to the public part and changed things so that close() no
+          longer "deletes this."  This is too confusing and error-prone.
+          In addition, changed the Module destructor so that it will try
+          to call close() only if close hasn't already been called.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Moved ACE_Process_Semaphore out of the
+          ACE_HAS_THREADS section since this is available on platforms
+          that don't have threads.
+
+        * Now that Log_Msg.h is being #included in OS.h, I removed all
+          other #includes of Log_Msg.h throughout the rest of ACE.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Rearranged the definition of the ACE_NEW and
+          ACE_NEW_RETURN macros so that they come at the end of OS.h.
+          This enables us to #include "ace/Log_Msg.h" here, as well, so
+          that we can make use of the ACE_LOG_MSG macro in the definition
+          of ACE_NEW and ACE_NEW_RETURN.
+
+        * ace/Singleton.cpp (instance): Updated the ACE_Singleton
+          implementation to use the new ACE_NEW and ACE_NEW_RETURN macros.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Revised the ACE_NEW and ACE_NEW_RETURN macros so that
+          they check to see if the constructor of the newly allocated
+          object failed (i.e., by checking the ACE_LOG_MSG->op_status()
+          value).
+
+        * tests/Reactors_Test.cpp: Added an ACE_ASSERT() after each
+          Reactor we create in order to make sure it worked.
+
+        * tests/Reactors_Test.cpp: Added an ACE_Service_Config daemon
+          instance within main() in order to ensure that the Reactor is
+          cleaned up appropriately.  This avoids problems with NT 4.0,
+          where there seems to be a bug if you don't shut down sockets
+          explicitly when the process exits.
+
+        * tests/Pipe_Test.cpp (main): Improved the pipe test so that it
+          automatically iterates multiple times in order to test whether
+          there are problems with rapidly opening and closing NT socket
+          handles...
+
+Thu Nov 28 03:07:48 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * netsvcs: netsvcs.mak and netsvcs.mdp were changed such that
+          it becomes easier to find ace.lib while compiling netsvcs.lib.
+
+        * tests/Pipe_Test.cpp: Add more instances of ACE_Pipes to the test
+          and also added an option to close down the pipe.
+
+Thu Nov 28 00:53:16 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/config-sunos4-g++.h:  This config file contained two
+          exclusive definitions
+
+          #define ACE_HAS_SVR4_SIGNAL_T
+
+          and
+
+          #define ACE_HAS_SUNOS4_SIGNAL_T
+
+          The first one was moved out.  Thanks to Alexandre Karev
+          <akg@na47sun05.cern.ch> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h:
+
+          #elif defined (ACE_HAS_SUNOS4_SIGNAL_T)
+
+          was changed from
+
+          typedef void (*ACE_SignalHandler)(void);
+          typedef void (*ACE_SignalHandlerV)(void);
+
+          to
+
+          typedef void (*ACE_SignalHandler)(...);
+          typedef void (*ACE_SignalHandlerV)(...);
+
+          to make gcc happy.  The first one was moved out.  Thanks to
+          Alexandre Karev <akg@na47sun05.cern.ch> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Pipe.cpp (close): Arrgh!  Fixed a total braino where we
+          weren't using ACE_OS::closesocket() to close down the Win32
+          ACE_Pipe implementation, which uses sockets...  Thanks to Irfan
+          and Tilo for helping me figure this one out!
+
+        * tests/CPP_Test.cpp: Completely reworked this test so that it
+          should run correctly on Win32 and UNIX.
+
+Wed Nov 27 16:50:17 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Put out a new beta of ACE 4.0.33.
+
+        * tests/Mutex_Test.cpp (test): Fixed the test() function so that
+          it doesn't use the ACE_Thread_Control unless we explicitly want
+          to use threads.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: Added addition information about the
+          process id and thread id of the main thread.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Speed things up a bit by conditionally #including
+          "ace/SV_Semaphore_Complex.h" only if we are compiling on a
+          non-Win32 platform or a POSIX platform.  Thanks to Matthias
+          Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for this.
+
+        * ace/SV_Semaphore_Complex.h: Incorporated the new ACE_USING
+          macro, which is useful if you have
+ 
+          class b {
+            a()
+          };
+ 
+          class d : private b {
+            b::a()                      // still works, but depriciated
+            using b::a()                // should be used instead
+          };
+
+          Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new macro called ACE_USING, which is used to
+          distinguish between platforms that support namespace "using"
+          semantics and those that don't.  Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff
+          <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for this.
+
+        * examples/Misc/test_XtReactor[12].cpp: Had to add the infamous
+          #define String XtString before including Xm/PushB.h. Also, there
+          were some references to XtReactor when the class is now
+          ACE_XtReactor.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl>
+          for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/XtReactor.cpp (ACE_XtReactor): timeout_ was not being
+          initialized on the constructor, and that caused a core dump.
+          Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/SOCK.h: Put the open() call in the protected part of the
+          class since we generally don't want clients to call this
+          directly.  Thanks to Eric Newton <ecn@clark.net> for pointing
+          this out.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp: Fixed a bug where sin.sin_family was being set
+          rather than sin.sin_len.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr
+          <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp: Enhanced the ACE::{send_n,recv_n} methods so that
+          they check to see if errno == EWOULDBLOCK when ACE_OS::send() or
+          ACE_OS::recv() returns -1.  If that's the case, then they keep
+          iterating.
+
+          Thanks to Mehdi TABATABAI <Mehdi.TABATABAI@ed.gva.sita.int> for
+          this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.h: Fixed ACE_RETURN so that it only has 1 parameter
+          if ACE_NLOGGING is enabled.  Thanks to Antonio Tortorici
+          <antonio@rh0011.roma.tlsoft.it> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h: Added ACE_NTRACE macros so that 
+          tracing doesn't magically turn on!
+
+        * ace/Task.cpp (activate): the &ACE_Task_Base::svc_run() argument
+          needs a cast to ACE_THR_FUNC, because that's what
+          ACE_Thread_Manager::spawn_n() requires.  On VxWorks,
+          ACE_THR_FUNC functions return an int, while svc_run() returns
+          void *.  Thanks to David Levine for this.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (kill_thr): I was mistakenly passing in
+          the thr_handle_ where I should have been passing in the thr_id_.
+          In addition, made sure we don't set errno to the wrong value...
+          Thanks to Ross Dargahi <rossd@acm.org> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/{Synch_T,Synch}.h: If we don't actually own the lock
+          anymore, don't try to do a release.  Thanks to Jonathan Biggar
+          <jon@sems.com> for reporting this bug.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (handle_timed_complete): Added an ex_handles mask so
+          that non-blocking connects will work correctly on Win32.  Thanks
+          to Antonio Tortorici <antonio@rh0011.roma.tlsoft.it> for
+          reporting this fix.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.h: Updated the documentation to stress the
+          fact that the timeouts are specified in *absolute* time, rather
+          than in relative time.  Thanks to Bob Dunmire <bobd@titan.com>
+          for reporting this.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: Modified the ACE_END_TEST macro so that the
+          log file is closed.  This works around a problem on VxWorks
+          where destructors of static objects don't get closed
+          automatically.  Thanks to David Levine for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (rand_r): Added a fix for Digital UNIX so that rand_r
+          works correctly in MT settings.  Thanks to Thilo Kielmann
+          <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for this.
+
+Wed Nov 27 16:12:00 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp: Fixed a bug in ACE_Stream::open to
+          allow applications to specify a tail or a head without
+          having to specify both.  This was needed by the ACE_Pipeline
+          application since it only needs a Pipeline-specific tail
+          (not a head). 
+
+Tue Nov 26 18:00:25 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Functions should not be declared with ACE_INLINE in a
+          .cpp file.  Fixed this problem in the following files:
+
+          SPIPE_Acceptor.cpp:116:ACE_INLINE
+          TLI_Acceptor.cpp:145:ACE_INLINE int
+          TLI_Acceptor.cpp:192:ACE_INLINE
+          Task.cpp:121:ACE_INLINE int
+          Task.cpp:130:ACE_INLINE void
+
+        * ace/{OS,Thread}: Added Chuck Gehr's suggested change for the
+          pthread_keycreate() routine, which must take extern "C"
+          functions on MVC C++.  This fix isn't perfect, but it should
+          allow the ACE library to build...
+
+        * man: Updated all of the manual pages and HTML files.
+
+        * ace/Signal.cpp: Updated the code so that we don't try to
+          register a static C++ dispatch method if ACE_HAS_SIG_C_FUNC is
+          defined.  This fixes problems with the MVS C++ compiler...
+          Thanks to Chuck Gehr for this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added extern "C" { } wrappers around the signal
+          handling mechanisms if ACE_HAS_SIG_C_FUNC is defined.  This
+          fixes problems with the MVS C++ compiler...  Thanks to Chuck
+          Gehr for this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (open): Moved the initialization of the
+          ACE_Timer_Queue field to *before* the handler_rep_.open() call.
+          We do this first in case the handler_rep_ call fails (which it
+          sometimes does on Win32 when we restart applications quickly due
+          to the use of sockets as a notification mechanism).  At least
+          this way the timer_queue_ isn't 0, so we can still use the
+          Reactor as a timer...  Thanks to Tilo Christ for motivating
+          me to fix this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Apparently, DIGITAL_UNIX gethostbyname() returns
+          thread-specific storage, so we can use this for
+          gethostbyname_r().
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Need to add:
+
+          #else
+
+          after line 3268: return (size_t) ACE_OS::sysconf (_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN);
+
+          otherwise we get a compile error:
+
+          line 3296.1: CBC1331(W) Return value of type "unsigned int" is expected
+
+          This is because no code ends up getting generated.  Thanks to Chuck
+          Gehr for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (ACE_PTHREAD_CLEANUP_PUSH): Removed an extraneous set
+          of parens.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Oops, needed to add a check if thr_id
+          == 0 before assigning *thr_handle = *thr_id!  Thanks to Prashant
+          for finding this.
+
+Tue Nov 26 21:06:13 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Pipe.cpp (open): This change relates to Win32 code only.
+          Removed the reuse_addr flag to acceptor.open() so that we don't
+          try to reuse the acceptor socket immediately. Apparently, this
+          causes no end of trouble on Win32 as the following connect()
+          call fails (randomly).  Now it should be possible to create
+          multiple ACE_Pipes in one process and hence create multiple
+          Reactors also without any problems.
+
+        * tests/Pipe_Test.cpp: Added a ACE_Pipe test to check for the
+          creation of multiple pipes in a process.  Also changed the
+          relevant makefiles and scripts.
+
+Tue Nov 26 11:27:33 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/{CPP_Test,Mutex_Test,Shared_Memory_MM_Test,SPIPE_Test}.cpp:
+          added VXWORKS support for these tests by spawning a new thread
+          instead of forking a new process (the same as on Win32)
+
+        * netsvcs/clients/Naming/Client/Client_Test.cpp (open): Added a
+          return 0 for success.
+
+        * ace/Singleton.h: Modified the use of the ACE_NEW_RETURN macro so
+          we not only check if new has failed, but also check that the
+          constructor has succeeded.  If it hasn't, we bail out...  Thanks
+          to Luca for this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg: Added a 4th parameter to log_hexdump() in order to
+          print out a comment.  Thanks to Luca for this.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (ldfind): Changed the implementation to look for
+          ACE_DLL_SUFFIX rather than '.' since '.' might exist in the
+          pathname already...
+
+        * Removed all the NT-specific svc.conf files and updated the other
+          files to use the new "auto-dll-suffix" feature in ACE.
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.cpp (ts_get): Fixed a nasty bug introduced by recent
+          changes to ACE_TSS<>::ts_get().  The ACE_Mutex should be
+          ACE_Thread_Mutex.  This should fix lots of nasty run-time bugs
+          seen with recent versions of the ACE 0.33 beta...
+
+Tue Nov 26 14:40:00 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Log_Msg.cpp: fake out TSS on VxWorks in Log_Msg::instance()
+          by using a spare field in the task control block
+
+        * tests/{CPP_Test,Mutex_Test,Shared_Memory_MM_Test,SPIPE_Test}.cpp:
+          added VXWORKS support for these tests by spawning a new
+          thread instead of forking a new process (the same as on
+          Win32)
+
+        * OS.h: VxWorks can't handle the ACE_THR_FUNC typedef if
+          it's in the extern "C" block, so I moved it back out.
+          Also, the horrible GreenHills hack is no longer required.
+
+        * OS.i: there's an ACE_OS_CALL_RETURN before a ::strncpy() call, 
+          I changed it to ACE_OS_CALL.
+
+        * OS.i: Added call to VxWorks ::mkdir()
+
+        * Pipe.cpp: VxWorks doesn't know about TCP_NODELAY.
+
+        * INET_Addr.cpp: get_host_name() is missing a return
+          statement, on VxWorks only   
+
+        * Thread_Manager.i:  in ACE_Thread_Control::thr_mgr(), there
+          were two consecutive return statements, removed the first
+          one.
+
+        * Time_Request_Reply.{h,cpp}:  GreenHills warns that "type
+          qualifiers are meaningless" for declaration of const
+          ACE_UINT32 time(), so I removed them.
+
+        * UPIPE_Stream.cpp, line 95: warning: integer conversion
+          resulted in a change of sign, so we cast n to int.
+
+        * Map_Manager.cpp: in ACE_Map_Manager::resize_i(), variable
+          foo is unnecessary, so we omitted it.
+
+        * tests/CPP_Test.cpp (and a few others) have references to
+          argv[0]:
+
+Tue Nov 26 03:15:22 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests: Added Map_Manager_Test and Message_Queue_Test to
+          makefiles (NT and UNIX) and one-button scripts.
+
+        * tests: (Barrier_Test.cpp Buffer_Stream_Test.cpp Mutex_Test.cpp
+          Priority_Buffer_Test.cpp Recursive_Mutex_Test.cpp
+          Shared_Memory_MM_Test.cpp) Fixed typos mainly and other small
+          changes. Also fixed logging file problems so to make logging
+          of tests more accurate.
+
+Mon Nov 25 00:23:40 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * performance-tests/Synch-Benchmarks/Options.cpp (Options):
+          Reordered the initialization of data members to keep G++ from
+          complaining.
+
+        * performance-tests/Synch-Benchmarks/pipe_thr_test.cpp: Changed
+          some types so that we don't get warnings.
+
+        * tests/Mutex_Test.cpp (test): Added a "return 0".  Thanks to
+          David Levine for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/TTY_IO.cpp: Rearranged some definitions so that we don't get
+          "unused variable" warnings from g++.
+
+        * ace/SOCK_Dgram.cpp (recv): Rearranged some definitions so that
+          we don't get "unused variable" warnings from g++.
+
+        * tests/Priority_Buffer_Test.cpp (consumer): Fixed a typo -- I was
+          missing a *...  Thanks to David Levine for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h (ACE_SVC_FACTORY_DECLARE): Changed the macro so that it
+          defines a function with `extern "C"' linkage in order to be
+          consistent.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Moved the conditional compilation test
+          for ACE_HAS_THR_C_FUNC outside of ACE_HAS_SETKIND_NP since MVS
+          doesn't have this!  Thanks to Chuck Gehr for this info.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_sigsetmask): Replaced the tests for
+          ACE_HAS_DCETHREADS and ACE_HAS_SETKIND_NP with
+          ACE_LACKS_PTHREAD_THR_SIGSETMASK, which is more appropriate.
+          
+        * ace/OS.cpp (ace_mutex_lock_cleanup_adapter): Changed the
+          signature so that it returns "void" rather than "void *".
+          Thanks to Chuck Gehr for this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Removed #include <sys/param.h> to avoid problems on
+          MVS.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr for this.
+
+        * ace/config-sunos5.5-sunc++-4.1.h: It looks like SunC++ 4.1 still
+          doesn't fix their template typedefs bugs.  So I've commented
+          this out in the config file.  Thanks to Fred LaBar
+          <flabar@fallschurch.esys.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (ldfind): Added support for a new feature that will
+          append the default suffix (e.g., ".dll" or ".so") for a shared
+          library on the current platform to the name of the file if it
+          cannot find an suffix.  It will also check that a provided
+          suffix will match the default suffix for that platform and if it
+          doesn't it will produce a log entry with a warning.  This change
+          will allow unified svc.conf-files for both UNIX and WinNT.
+          Thanks to Tilo Christ <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for this.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Came up with a remarkably clever scheme
+          that should make it possible to utilize the ACE library *without
+          change* on MVS, where the frigging C++ compiler requires all
+          functions passed to pthread_create() have an extern "C" linkage.
+          The trick was to generalize the thread adapter mechanism used
+          for Win32.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new macro called ACE_PTHREAD_CLEANUP_PUSH that
+          selects the right mechanism (e.g., ace_spawn_adapter or not) for
+          passing functions to pthread_cleanup_push().
+        
+        * ace/config-mvs.h: Added a new macro called ACE_HAS_THR_C_FUNC
+          which expresses the fact that the MVS C++ compiler *must* have
+          an extern "C" function passed to pthread_create().
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Modified all uses of ACE_OS::mutex_lock_cleanup() to
+          use the extern "C" ace_spawn_adapter() on platforms MVS like MVS
+          that can't deal with non-C functions to pthread_create.  Thanks
+          to Chuck Gehr for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Added Chuck Gehr's patches for MVS.
+
+Sun Nov 24 12:30:45 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Added Chuck Gehr's <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> config-mvs.h
+          file!
+
+        * ace: Began adding support for WinSock 2.0.  Thanks to Luca for
+          this.
+
+        * ace/UPIPE_{Acceptor,Connector,Stream}: Updated the UPIPE
+          components so that they keep a reference count that keeps track
+          of the number of "owners" (which should always be 2 -- one for
+          the connector-side and one for the acceptor-side).  By keeping
+          this count, we can ensure that we don't close down the
+          underlying ACE_Stream until both sides have called close().
+          This will remove a nasty bug that was lurking in some of the
+          tests.
+
+        * ace/Message_Block.h: Added a new copy() method that assumes the
+          buf passed in is a NUL-terminated string.
+
+        * tests/UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp: Modified this test so that threads
+          exit in a well-defined order.  This should prevent problems on
+          Win32.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Changed SIGNAL_SAFE_OS_CALLS to
+          ACE_HAS_SIGNAL_SAFE_OS_CALLS to be consistent...
+
+        * ace/config-vxworks*.h: Removed the SIGNAL_SAFE_OS_CALLS #define
+          from the VxWorks config files.  There's no need to use this by
+          default.
+
+        * ace/Event_Handler: Moved all the default implementations of the
+          virtual methods in ACE_Event_Handler from the *.i file to the
+          *.cpp and made them no longer be inlines.  This will fix some
+          problems with some compilers (e.g., MSVC++ 4.1) and is also more
+          reasonable since there's really no purpose for inlining these
+          virtual functions since they are rarely called.  Thanks to James
+          Michael Dwyer <jdwyer@knox.edu> for reporting this problem.
+
+Sat Nov 23 12:39:03 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf.y: Changed the parser so that it accepts DLL
+          pathnames that lack *.dll or *.so suffixes.  This is necessary
+          so that we can automatically append the correct suffix depending
+          on the platform.  Thanks to Tilo Christ
+          <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Makefile: Updated the Makefile so that it will automatically
+          insert the appropriate so that conditions for include of
+          ace/OS.h can be checked correctly.
+
+Fri Nov 22 18:12:49 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_sigsetmask): DCE threads (at least as implemented
+          by Digital) have no means for setting the signal mask on a
+          per-thread basis.  Therefore, modified the code so that it
+          correctly returns ACE_NOTSUP_RETURN(-1) for DCEthreads.  Thanks
+          to Thilo Kielmann <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for
+          chasing this down.
+
+        * performance-tests/Synch-Benchmarks/synch_driver.cpp (run_test):
+          Fixed this implementation so that it will shut down correctly
+          when a signal occurs or a timeout occurs (whichever comes
+          first).
+
+Fri Nov 22 08:02:39 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace.{mdp,mak}: Changed ace.mak so that it links with the
+          non-debug version of Microsoft's multithreaded dll when compiled
+          with the release option
+
+Thu Nov 21 10:37:40 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Service_Config: Changed the implementation of the
+          Service_Config class so that it no longer inherits from
+          ACE_Event_Handler.  This was causing problems because the new
+          reactor() method in the ACE_Event_Handler was conflicting with
+          the static reactor() method on ACE_Service_Config.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (detach): Since we no longer use an
+          ACE_Recursive_Thread_Mutex, we can remove the line 
+          
+          else if (ACE_TSS_Cleanup::lock_.get_nesting_level () > 1)
+            // ...
+
+          Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for 
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (spawn_n): Replaced int i with size_t i
+          to avoid warnings between signed and unsigned values.
+
+        * ace: There is an easy way to speed up the "Update dependencies" 
+          in MSVC. Just keep the the compiler from complaining about
+          missing header by inserting a comment like below in the
+          #include-directives which are not used in Win32.
+ 
+          Therefore, instead of 
+
+          #include <somefile.h>
+
+          we use
+
+          #include /**/ <somefile.h>
+
+          Please let me know if this causes problems for any
+          pre-processors.  Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff
+          <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for this suggestion!
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: Added support for AfxBeginThread in
+          ACE_OS::thr_create() and ACE_OS::exit().  Now ACE should work
+          with MFC when you give the THR_USE_AFX flag to
+          ACE_OS::thr_create()!  Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff
+          <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for this!
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp (avail_chunks): Changed the return value to
+          ssize_t so we can return -1 if we can't get the lock.  Thanks to
+          Tilo for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-sunos4-sun3.x.h: Added new #ifdefs for Sun C++ 3.0.1
+          on SunOS 4.1.3.  Thanks to Eric Parker <eparker@credence.com>
+          for these fixes.
+
+        * ace/Stack.h: Added a new method called peek() to the
+          ACE_Unbounded_Queue classes so that the first element can be
+          retrieved without removing it.  Thanks to Luca for this
+          suggestion.
+
+        * ace/SString.cpp (ACE_CString): Changed ACE_CString so that it
+          uses memcpy() rather than str(n)cpy() so that we can store any
+          structure into it.  Thanks to Luca for this suggestion.
+  
+        * ace/Acceptor: Since we moved the reactor() accessors to
+          ACE_Event_Handler we can omit these from the Acceptor and
+          Svc_Handler.
+
+        * ace: Updated the ACE_Reactor and ACE_ReactorEx so that they
+          automatically sets the pointers in ACE_Event_Handlers.  Thanks
+          to Luca for this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/Event_Handler: Added pointers to all the ACE demultiplexors
+          (e.g., ACE_Reactor, ACE_ReactorEx, and ACE_Proactor) to
+          ACE_Event_Handler, along with set/get accessor methods.  This
+          supports a very common use-case where an event handler keeps
+          track of its demultiplexor.  Thanks to Luca for this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: Since we do not use the recursion count from the
+          Recursive Mutex any more in ACE_TSS_Cleanup::exit() we can
+          replace the Recursive Mutex by a regular ACE_Thread_Mutex that
+          is recursive on NT natively and more efficient.  Thanks to
+          Detlef for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: Since we do not use the recursion count from the
+          Recursive Mutex any more in ACE_TSS_Cleanup::exit() we can
+          replace the Recursive Mutex by a regular ACE_Thread_Mutex that
+          is recursive on NT natively and more efficient.  Thanks to
+          Detlef for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace: Backed out all of Detlef's changes to ACE_OS and
+          ACE_TSS::ts_get().  It turns out that this is unnecessary since
+          he reimplemented ACE_TSS_Cleanup so that it no longer needs to
+          hold the lock when callbacks are made.  Once again, Detlef
+          proves that he's a macho man, not a boy ;-)
+
+Thu Nov 21 08:12:51 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++_4.1.GNU:
+          put back the LD definition
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_osf1_4.0_g++.GNU:
+          added LD definition to work with latest wrapper_macros.GNU
+
+Wed Nov 20 10:32:52 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests: Mutex_Test.cpp Priority_Buffer_Test.cpp
+          Reader_Writer_Test.cpp Thread_Pool_Test.cpp were changed
+          slightly to remove some compile time warnings.
+
+Wed Nov 20 21:35:28 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf_l.cpp:  added #include of ace/config.h so that
+          conditions for include of ace/OS.h can be checked.
+
+Wed Nov 20 02:38:40 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp: Moved the definition of logger_key_ to
+          OS.h and changed it to a macro (ACE_LOGGER_KEY) so that it will
+          be portable to Win32 and UNIX.  Thanks to Tilo for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Changed the return value of ACE_OS::getgid() from uid_t
+          to gid_t to be POSIX compliant.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Fixed a typo where we were assigning
+          stacksize rather than size.  Thanks Thilo.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Added a new piece of code for
+          ACE_NEEDS_HUGE_THREAD_STACKSIZE, which is necessary to create a
+          larger per-thread stack size in order to run ACE_Log_Msg::log.
+          Thanks to Thilo for this.
+
+        * tests/TSS_Test.cpp: Changed the name of the static variable
+          "lock" to "cout_lock" to avoid a potential namespace clash on
+          Digital UNIX.  Thanks to Thilo Kielmann for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/SOCK_Dgram.cpp (recv): Added a cast (char *)
+          io_vec->iov_base so that this would work correctly on platforms
+          where iov_base is a void * (e.g., AIX and HP/UX).  Thanks to
+          Alan Stewart for the change.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a few new changes for Digital UNIX 4.0a.  These
+          should fix problems with ctime_r() and asctime_r().  Thanks to
+          Dave Trumble for the fixes.
+
+        * tests/UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp: Disabled this test if we don't have
+          threads and (STREAM Pipes or Win32).  Thanks to Thilo Kielmann's
+          <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for this info.
+
+Tue Nov 19 23:09:08 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp (print): Added a call to ACE_OS::fflush
+          before returning.  This change was suggested by Luca in order to
+          help prevent messages from getting lost when applications exit.
+          We're unsure of the affects this will have on performance, so we
+          may change this back in the future.
+
+Tue Nov 19 00:06:57 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Released a beta version of ACE 4.0.33 for testing.
+
+        * ace/TTY_IO.h: Added the ACE_Export macro before the ACE_TTY_IO
+          class to make things work correctly for Win32 DLLs.  Thanks
+          to William L. Gerecke <gerecke@rayva.org> for fixing this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Improved the support for RLIMIT_NOFILE.  Thanks to
+          Alan Stewart <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Removed the following code from OS.h because
+          it is causing problems on some platforms:
+
+          #if (!defined (timespec) && !defined (m88k))
+          #define timestruc_t struct timespec
+          #endif /* timespec */
+
+          Thanks to Fred LeBar for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Needed to create an
+          ACE_OS::NULL_hthread so that we can assign the "NULL thread
+          handle" on POSIX platforms.  Thanks to Alan Stewart
+          <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: The HP/UX C++ compiler is unable to grok inline
+          functions with multiple returns.  So I recoded the
+          ACE_OS::event* methods to avoid this.  Thanks to Alan Stewart
+          <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Moved the "undef" of t_errno until after the inclusion
+          of mman.h and dlfcn.h to prevent problems with DU4.0a.  Thanks
+          to David Trumble <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Pipe.cpp (open): Fixed a typo where
+          this->ACE_SOCK::set_option() was being used instead of
+          writer.set_option().  Thanks to Tilo Christ
+          <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.h: Fixed a bug where 
+        
+          ACE_Message_Queue <ACE_SYNCH_1> &queue_;
+
+          should be:
+
+          ACE_Message_Queue <ACE_SYNCH_2> &queue_;        
+
+          Thanks to Rick Orr <rorr@costello.den.csci.csc.com> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * apps/Makefile: Updated the Makefile so that it no longer tries
+          to look for Synch-Benchmarks.  Thanks to Amos Shapira
+          <amos@dsi.co.il> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Activation_Queue.cpp (dequeue): Added a sanity check to make
+          sure that we actually deleted the first element in the queue.
+          Thanks to Andres Kruse <Andres.Kruse@cern.ch> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++_4.1.GNU: Added a
+          minor change to remove the libACE.a archive prior to creating a
+          new one.  This works around bugs with the SunOS 4.x C++
+          compiler.  Thanks to Andres Kruse <Andres.Kruse@cern.ch> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp (avail_chunks): Added Fred LeBar's code and
+          comments for computing the available chunks.
+
+        * tests/Mutex_Test.cpp: Rewrote the Mutex_Test so that it behaves
+          correctly on UNIX and Win32.  Thanks to Irfan for reporting the
+          problem.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (sync): Somehow, the statement that updated the
+          pid_ after sync() is called following a fork() got removed, so I
+          put it back in.
+
+        * ace/config-sunos5.*-g++.h: Added the
+          -D_REENTRANT flag to the config files for the G++ version of
+          ACE. This fixes a nasty problem that otherwise arises when
+          compiling on SunOS 5.x.  Thanks to Hanan Herzog
+          <hanan@wallenda.stanford.edu> for reporting this.
+
+Tue Nov 19 21:14:15 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * performance-tests/Synch-Benchmarks/Benchmark.{h,cpp}:
+          use thread ID class for VxWorks as well as Pthreads.
+
+        * OS.i, config-{osf1-4.0,sunos5.[45]}-g++.h: Moved GNU
+          #include <cstring> out of config files and into OS.i.
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf_l.cpp: added #include of ace/OS.h for HPUX and
+          VxWorks.
+
+        * ace/Token.cpp: reordered initializations in Ace_Queue_Entry
+          ctor to match declaration order.
+
+Mon Nov 18 00:47:27 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new #define called ACE_HAS_BROKEN_CONVERSIONS
+          to workaround problems with the HP/UX C++ compiler, which
+          doesn't seem to be able to grok foo->operator T *().  Thanks to
+          Alan Stewart <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this bug and the fix.
+          Also updated the config-hpux*.h files with this define.
+
+        * examples/Misc: Added a new test (test_get_opt.cpp) which
+          exercises the ACE_Get_Opt class.
+
+Sun Nov 17 13:00:02 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Get_Opt: Replaced the GNU-based implementation of class
+          ACE_Get_Opt with an implementation based on BSD UNIX.  The
+          advantage here is that the BSD version is not encumbered by the
+          GNU GPL.  Thus, ACE has no more dependencies on GNU GPL.  Thanks
+          to James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu> for finding the BSD code.
+
+Mon Nov 18 00:13:25 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/stdcpp.h: Added this file to ACE.  This file contains the
+          portability ugliness for the Standard C++ Library.  As
+          implementations of the "standard" emerge, this file will need to
+          be updated.  Although not very useful now, we are gearing up for
+          a support for STL on UNIX and NT.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added an include "ace/stdcpp.h".
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.h (ACE_Log_Record): Removed the iostream include
+          mess that got accidentally committed to the release.
+
+Sun Nov 17 00:13:25 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * For some totally evil reason, MSVC++ will not allow any use of
+          the "allocator" symbol.  It's an STL thing.  As a result, I've
+          had to change all of the following files to rename allocator to
+          alloc: Local_Name_Space_T.cpp, Map_Manager.cpp, Malloc_T.cpp,
+          Message_Block.cpp, Read_Buffer.cpp, SString.cpp.  The root
+          of the problem can be seen by compiling the code below:
+          
+          template <class TYPE>
+          class foo {};
+
+          int foo;  // compile error because of the foo<> class.
+
+          int main () { return 0; }
+        
+        * Service_Config.{h,cpp}:  We have to change the allocator
+          accessors to alloc.  This is probably going to break
+          many things.  If necessary, we can conditionally compile in the
+          old accessors for platforms that are not using STL and MSVC++.
+
+        * ace/Task.h:  Added ACE_Export macros to the class definitions.
+
+Sun Nov 17 13:00:02 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Added Thilo Kielmann's <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de>
+          patches for OSF/1 4.0a.
+
+        * ace/OS: Revised the implementation of ACE_OS::asctime_r() and
+          ACE_OS::ctime_r() to simplify common cases.  However, this may
+          have broken some code on OSF/1 4.0a.  Can someone please check
+          this?
+
+        * tests/SPIPE_Test.cpp: Conditionally compiled this file so that
+          we only build the SPIPE test if (1) we're running on Win32 or
+          (2) ACE_HAS_STREAM_PIPES.  Thanks to David Levine for this
+          suggestion.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (ctime_r): Fixed a typo that was caused by a misplaced
+          #endif.  Thanks to Eshel Liran <liran@macs.biu.ac.il> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Time_Value: Disabled ACE_TRACE within these method in order
+          to prevent infinite recursion.
+
+        * ace/Log_Record: Originally, when verbose mode was enabled you
+          can get the date and time down to the seconds.  However, it is
+          useful for performance testings to have milliseconds displayed
+          in the log.  To accomplish this, I changed ACE_Log_Msg and
+          ACE_Log_Record to they also keep track of and print the microsec
+          time, as well.  Thanks to Luca for suggesting this.
+ 
+        * ace/Map_Manager.cpp: updated all the ACE_Map_Manager methods so
+          their read and write Guards use the ACE_*_GUARD macros.
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp: Updated all the ACE_Malloc methods so their
+          read and write Guards use the ACE_*_GUARD macros.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (svc_run): Added an ACE_DEBUG announcing that an
+          exception has propagated beyond the outermost svc_run()
+          function.  Thanks to Luca for this suggestion.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: VxWorks passes in a NULL argv (arrghhh...).
+          Therefore, to work around this in the ./tests directory, I changed
+          the ACE_START_TEST macro to take a NAME parameter, and then I
+          added the following local variable:
+
+          const char *program = argv ? argv[0] : NAME;
+
+          Thanks to David Levine for this fix.
+
+Sat Nov 16 12:01:08 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_tss2.cpp: Added Detlef's new test for
+          ACE_TSS.
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.cpp (ts_get): Added Detlef's changes to fix deadlock
+          problems with ACE_TSS on NT.
+
+Fri Nov 15 18:01:26 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ACE_SOCK_Stream.cpp: NT will signal an abortive close
+          to the opposite party if a socket is closed before all of its
+          data has been sent out. According to the NT SDK-docs, you should
+          do a shutdown before the closesocket() in order to prepare a
+          graceful close.  Thus, I've placed an
+          ACE_SOCK_Stream::close_writer() method just before the call to
+          ACE_SOCK::close() in the new close() of the ACE_SOCK_Stream
+          class.  Thanks to Tilo Christ <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for
+          this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/INET_Addr.cpp: The function ACE_INET_Addr::addr_to_string
+          was a virtual function that is also inline and defined in the .i
+          file.  Some compilers have a problem with this, so I moved it
+          into the *.cpp file.  In addition, its sister function was also
+          virtual and is defined as:
+
+          ACE_INLINE int
+          ACE_INET_Addr::string_to_addr (const char s[])
+
+          in the .cpp file.  I removed the ACE_INLINE directive.  Thanks
+          to Fred LaBar <flabar@fallschurch.esys.com> for reporting this.
+
+Thu Nov 14 16:20:20 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp: Added a new method to ACE_Malloc that will
+          return the number of chunks available on the free list.  Thanks
+          to Fred Labar <flabar@fallschurch.esys.com> for this.
+
+Wed Nov 13 01:22:16 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx.cpp (handle_events):  I've changed siginfo_t on
+          Win32 (which was previously typedef'd to int) so that it has the
+          following structure: 
+
+          struct siginfo_t
+          {
+            siginfo_t (ACE_HANDLE handle);
+
+            ACE_HANDLE si_handle_;
+            // Win32 HANDLE that has become signaled.
+          };
+
+          Then, I've changed the ACE_ReactorEx::handle_events() method to
+          look like this:
+
+            // Assign the ``signaled'' HANDLE so that callers can get
+            // it.
+            siginfo_t sig (relative_handles[relative_index]);
+            
+            if (relative_handlers[relative_index]->handle_signal 
+                (0, &sig) == -1)
+
+          Thus, you can refer to the signaled handle as 
+
+          si_handle_
+
+          within the handle_signal() call back.  Thanks to Matthias
+          Kerkhoff <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/System_Time.h: Made ACE_System_Time::get_local_time() a
+          static member function.  Thanks to Matthias Kerkhoff
+          <make@cs.tu-berlin.de> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.h: The internal variables for counting the
+          bytes stored in the queue were declared as of type int (in
+          Message_Queue.h).  But they are set (e.g. with
+          ACE_Message_Queue::ACE_Message_Queue) with values of size_t.
+
+          When running tests/Priority_Buffer_Test, the high_water_mark_ is
+          preset with the value LONG_MAX. While assigning this value from
+          size_t to int, this becomes -1 and the queue is always believed
+          to be full :-( The fix is to change the internal data structures
+          in Message_Queue.h from int to size_t.  Thanks to Thilo Kielmann
+          <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for reporting this.
+
+        * tests: Fixed problems with the following three tests:
+
+          Priority_Buffer_Test.cpp
+          Reader_Writer_Test.cpp
+          UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp
+
+          When these are compiled with gcc on Digital UNIX 4.0a the static
+          ACE_Thread_Manager thr_mgr; was never getting initialized due to
+          gcc compiler bugs.  The fix is to replace the static thread
+          manager with the ACE_Service_Config::thr_mgr() singleton.
+          Thanks to Thilo Kielmann <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for
+          reporting this.
+
+Tue Nov 12 19:43:12 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (spawn_n): Was missing a 0 after ?.
+          Thanks to Thilo Kielmann <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.h: Created a new macro call ACE_ERROR_BREAK(X) {
+          ACE_ERROR(X); break;} for use within switch and loop statements.
+          Thanks to Luca for this idea.
+
+        * ace/Pipe.cpp: Enabled the "reuse addr" flag for accepting and
+          connecting the Win32 version of ACE_Pipe.  Thanks to Luca for
+          reporting this problem.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_join): ACE_Thread::join () has a default second
+          parameter (the status) set to 0. This is not handled in
+          ACE_OS::thr_join(). To avoid getting a system error in NT we
+          handle this as we did with ACE_OS::thr_create() and the
+          thr_handle parameter.
+
+        * ace/config-irix6.2-sgic++.h: Updated the set of patches required
+          for IRIX 6.2.  Thanks to Amos Shapira for reporting this.
+
+Sun Nov 10 15:40:17 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Token_Invariants.cpp: Moved static data
+          declarations out of ACE_Token_Invariant_Manager::instance and
+          into the header file.  This is supposed to help with a g++
+          problem on VxWorks.
+
+Sun Nov 10 13:22:03 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Pipe.cpp (open): Set the loopback socket into TCP_NODELAY
+          mode so that we don't block for 200 ms...  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it>.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Created a new version of spawn_n() that
+          gives parameters for stack, stack_size, and also for the
+          assigned ACE_hthread_t's.  Thanks to Thilo Kielmann
+          <kielmann@informatik.uni-siegen.de> for suggesting this.
+
+Sun Nov 10 13:56:38 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/Reactors_Test.cpp (main): Fixed the test so that the
+          output of the test goes to a log file instead of STDOUT.
+
+Sat Nov  9 11:23:13 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Synch.i: Fixed a bug in ACE_Thread_Mutex_Guard.
+          The call:
+
+          this->owner_ == block ? this->lock_.acquire () : this->lock_.tryacquire ();
+
+          should be
+
+          this->owner_ = block ? this->lock_.acquire () : this->lock_.tryacquire ();
+
+          Thanks to Alexander Smundak <sasha@migration.com> for reporting
+          this.
+
+Sat Nov  9 01:44:15 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue: Added forward and reverse iterators to
+          Message_Queue. Also, added typedefs to Message_Queue for
+          ITERATOR, and REVERSE_ITERATOR. This makes the Queue like an STL
+          collection and also makes it easier to use since you don't have
+          to define types for the iterators. Please see
+          test/Message_Queue_Test.cpp for an example.
+
+        * ace/Map_Manager: Added reverse iterator to Map_Manager. Also,
+          added typedefs to Map_Manager for ENTRY, ITERATOR, and
+          REVERSE_ITERATOR. This makes the Map more like an STL collection
+          and also makes it easier to use since you don't have to define
+          types for the iterators and the entry. Please see
+          test/Map_Manager_Test.cpp for an example. Note that the new
+          typedefs does not break existing code.
+
+Fri Nov  8 20:04:26 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Malloc.h: Fixed a typo on line 176 that reads:
+
+          #include "ace/Sync_T.h"
+
+          It should read:
+
+          #include "ace/Synch_T.h" 
+
+          Thanks to Todd Barkalow <todd_barkalow@stortek.com> for
+          reporting this.
+
+Wed Nov  6 00:38:02 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Pipe: Added the const qualifier to the following methods:
+        
+          ACE_HANDLE ACE_Pipe::read_handle (void) const;
+          ACE_HANDLE ACE_Pipe::write_handle (void) const;
+
+          Thanks to Luca for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Redefined
+          ACE_LACKS_STATIC_DATA_MEMBER_TEMPLATES since it looks like
+          MSVC++ 4.0 still doesn't work.  Maybe this is fixed in 4.2?
+
+Tue Nov  5 03:09:44 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Strategies.cpp: I'd forgotten to update one of the
+          accept(*svc_handler) calls to use the new
+          accept(svc_handler->peer()) syntax.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Server_Logging_Handler.cpp: Added a cast to
+          (COUNTER) 0 when initializing ::request_count_ to avoid problems
+          on Win32.  Thanks to Luca for pointing this out.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Added a new thr_self() method that return
+          the unique ID of the thread.  This is not strictly necessary
+          (because a thread can always just call <ACE_Thread::thr_self>).
+          However, we put it here to be complete.  Thanks to Hamutal Yanay
+          <Hamutal_Yanay@mail.icomverse.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): I was accidentally closing down
+          ::CloseHandle (thr_handle) (where thr_handle is a HANDLE *) when
+          I should have been doing a ::CloseHandle (handle) instead.
+          Thanks to Luca for finding this!
+
+Tue Nov  5 14:26:32 1996  David Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * include/makeinclude/wrapper_macros.GNU: Changed LINK.{c,cc}
+          commands to use LD instead of CXX.  Changed all platform macros
+          files (except for g++ on VxWorks) to correspond.
+
+        * tests/run_tests.sh: changed -e test to -f for portability and
+          reordered tests.  Thanks to Michael Michael Rueger
+          <m_rueger@SYSCOMP.DE> for originally creating run_tests.sh, and
+          for maintaining it, and to Alan Stewart <axs2@osi.com> for
+          suggesting fixes/enhancements.
+
+        * tests/Time_Service_Test.cpp and Tokens_Test.cpp: changed to
+          return 0 on success instead of 42
+
+Fri Nov  1 03:53:39 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * STL: Added STL files to $WRAPPER_ROOT/STL.  This code is a
+          modified version (changes for VC++ compiler) of the publicly
+          available implementation of STL from HP.  Currently,
+          ACE_Registry uses these STL classes.
+
+Fri Nov  1 00:25:01 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/CORBA_Handler.cpp (process_events): There was a very subtle
+          race condition in the ACE_MT_CORBA_Handler.  process_events()
+          accessed the singleton directly without taking the mutex. At
+          startup the process_event thread is kicked off from the
+          constructor and the instance_ is set. Hence the race.  The
+          solution is to attempt to take the mutex before accessing the
+          instance.  Thanks to David Artus <david.artus@sbil.co.uk> for
+          reporting the problem and providing the fix.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (log): Improved the performance of the Log_Msg
+          mechanism by not doing any parsing of the format string if the
+          user has disabled this priority.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp: Added a chance for the open() method of the
+          Notification_Pipe failing.  Thanks to Luca for pointing this
+          out.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (handle_events): Added a change to the semantics
+          of the ACE_Reactor so that it doesn't fall out of the event loop
+          when signals arrive that it handles.  Thanks to Stuart Powell
+          <stuartp@in.ot.com.au> for this fix.
+
+        * ace/Service_Repository.cpp (remove): Fixed a bug with
+          Service_Record::remove() that was failing if there were only two
+          records and we are removing the first one.  Thanks to Alex
+          Villazon <villazon@cui.unige.ch> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace: Recompiled everything on Solaris with G++ and CC and it
+          seems to work fine.
+
+        * ace/Module: Replaced the use of char * with const char * for
+          assigning the Module a name.
+
+        * ace: Split the Task.{cpp,i.h} file into Task_T.{cpp,i,h} in
+          order to factor out the new non-template ACE_Task_Base and
+          ACE_Task_Exit classes.  This is required for GCC-based compilers
+          that include the *.cpp files...
+
+Thu Oct 31 00:36:38 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.h: Made the destructor of ACE_Allocator_Adapter
+          virtual.
+
+        * ace/Thread: Reorganized the ACE_Thread so that the
+          ACE_HAS_THREADS #ifdef is no longer required...
+
+        * ace/Strategies.h: Changed all the destructors to be virtual so
+          that G++ will stop complaining...
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Reorganized the ACE_Thread_Manager so that
+          the ACE_HAS_THREADS #ifdef is no longer required...
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Added Dieter Quehl's great hack to
+          get ACE to compile correctly on Win32 with MFC!
+
+        * ace/Task: I've rearranged the implementation of ACE_Task<> 
+          in the following way:  
+
+             1. Defined a non-template class ACE_Task_Base from which the 
+                ACE_Task<...> inherits (instead of inheriting from
+                Ace_Service_Object, which ACE_Task_Base now inherits from.
+     
+             2. Move all methods that don't depend on the <ACE_MT_SYNCH> or
+                <ACE_NULL_SYNCH> modifers from the ACE_Task template to
+                ACE_Task_Base.
+
+          There are two motivations for making this change:
+
+             1. It reduces ``template bloat'' by factoring out common
+                code that can be shared between ACE_Task<ACE_MT_SYNCH>
+                and ACE_Task<ACE_NULL_SYNCH>.
+
+             2. It makes it possible for the Thread_Manager to use 
+                ACE_Task_Base *'s for managing groups of ACE_Tasks
+                in a fully polymorphic manner.
+
+          Note that the new changes don't break any existing code that
+          uses ACE_Task.  Thanks to Hamutal Yanay
+          <Hamutal_Yanay@hub.comverse.com> and Ari Erev's
+          <Ari_Erev@comverse.com> for suggesting these changes.  
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Changed the use of ACE_Task<ACE_SYNCH> to
+          ACE_Service_Object because this avoids nasty problems with
+          template type conflicts.  The right solution is probably to
+          create a new non-template base class for ACE_Task called
+          ACE_Task_Base and move all the ACE_Task operations into there
+          that don't involve the Message_Queue directly.  I'll need to
+          think more about this...
+
+        * ace/SOCK_Stream: Added new timed send_n() and recv_n() methods,
+          which use the underlying timed ACE::send() and ACE::recv()
+          calls.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp: Added new timed send_n() and recv_n() methods,
+          which use the underlying timed ACE::send() and ACE::recv()
+          calls.
+
+Wed Oct 30 00:27:21 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Changed MAXHOSTNAMELEN on Win32 from
+          (MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH+1) (which is around 16 or so) to 256.
+          Thanks to Tilo Christ <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for this
+          suggestion.
+
+        * ace: Made #define STRICT a compile time option if the
+          ACE_HAS_STRICT flag is enabled.  This prevents ACE from breaking
+          existing application (i.e., non-ACE) code.  Thanks to Karlheinz
+          for pointing this out!
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.cpp: Fixed a typo in ACE_Condition<MUTEX>::wait
+          (void).
+
+          return ACE_OS::cond_wait (&this->cond_, this->mutex_.lock_);
+
+          should read 
+
+          return ACE_OS::cond_wait (&this->cond_, &this->mutex_.lock_);
+
+          Thanks to Dieter Quehl <dietrich.quehl@med.siemens.de> for
+          reporting this!
+
+        * ace/Svc_Handler.h: Removed the operator ACE_PEER_STREAM &() from
+          the ACE_Svc_Handler class since we don't need it anymore due to
+          the changes below.
+
+        * ace/{Acceptor,Connector}.cpp: Removed the use of operator
+          ACE_PEER_STREAM &() in the Acceptor::accept() and
+          Connector::connect() code and replaced it with
+          svc_handler->peer().  This works much better and is more
+          intuitive.
+
+Wed Oct 30 00:30:00 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Registry: Added a Name Service implementation to ACE based on
+          Win32 Registry. The ACE_Registry interface is inspired by the
+          interface specified in the CORBA Naming Service Specification.
+          The implementation is done through Win32 Reg*() functions.
+          Other than providing an OO wrapper for the Win32 Reg*()
+          functions, ACE_Registry provides an abstraction for iteration
+          over the elements of the Registry. This only works on Win32
+          platforms (unless you are brave enough to reimplement the
+          Win32 Registry API on UNIX and link it in underneath ACE!).
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp: Moved SEH out of methods of
+          Name_Space_Map to the methods of Local_Name_Space. Some of
+          the calls to Local_Name_Space methods used the allocator to
+          either malloc or find or free shared memory. Adding SEH to these 
+          methods ensured that any exception raised due to remapping would
+          be caught and handled appropriately. 
+
+          Also, to fool the stupid MFC compiler, we added _i methods
+          so that it stopped bitching about destructors not getting called
+          correctly. 
+
+        * Added three new tests to /examples/Naming. Thanks to Lothar for
+          providing these tests.  
+
+Tue Oct 29 18:10:09 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (send): Integrated a new and simpler version of
+          timed ACE::send().  Thanks to Vital Aza <va3@cs.wustl.edu> for
+          coming up with this.
+
+        * ace/XtReactor.cpp: When the ACE_Reactor is constructed it
+          creates the notify pipe and registers it with the attach()
+          method. The XtReactor overloads this method BUT because the
+          attach occurs when constructing the base class ACE_Reactor, the
+          ACE_Reactor attach() is called not the XtReactor attach().  This
+          means that the notify pipe is registered with the ACE_Reactor
+          event handling code not the XtReactor and so notfications don't
+          work.  To get around this we simply close and re-opened the
+          notification handler in the constructor of the XtReactor.
+          Thanks to Rodney Skinner <rods@in.ot.com.au> for this fix.
+
+        * ace/XtReactor.cpp (schedule_timer): The ACE_Reactor returns a
+          timer_id from it's equivalent call but the XtReactor always
+          returns 0.  To fix this we simply replaced the "return 0;" in
+          the function with "return result;" Thanks to Rodney Skinner
+          <rods@in.ot.com.au> for reporting this.
+
+Tue Oct 29 00:02:44 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Defined the STRICT symbol based on a
+          suggestion from Luca.  STRICT type checking in WINDOWS.H
+          enhances type safety for Windows programs by using distinct
+          types to represent all the different HANDLES in Windows. So for
+          example, STRICT prevents you from mistakenly passing an HPEN to
+          a routine expecting an HBITMAP.  Note that if you have STRICT
+          type checking enabled in one file, but not in another, the C++
+          compiler will generate different external link symbols for a
+          single function. This will result in link-time errors If you are
+          mixing STRICT and non-STRICT code, you must be aware of linkage
+          inconsistencies. In general, all MFC programming and all C++
+          should be done with STRICT. If you have legacy C code, then not
+          using STRICT is acceptable
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Added a special check for the situation
+          where we have both ACE_HAS_PTHREADS and ACE_HAS_STHREADS
+          defined.  In this case, we are running on Solaris, where
+          ACE_thread_t and ACE_hthread_t are the same.  Therefore, we can
+          copy the value of the *thr_id into the *thr_handle.  This
+          ensures that the ACE_Thread_Manager behaves correctly with
+          respect to suspending and resuming threads and ACE_Tasks.
+
+        * ace/Trace.cpp (ACE_Trace): Changed the use of LM_DEBUG to
+          LM_TRACE in the constructor and destructor.  Thanks to Luca for
+          this!
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added a cast to of (HMODULE) handle so that the STRICT
+          macro would work correctly for Win32.  Thanks to Luca for this.
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: According to Luca, ACE compiles file
+          with ACE_LACKS_STATIC_DATA_MEMBER_TEMPLATES undefined on NT.  So
+          I undefined it!  If there are any problems with this, please let
+          me know.
+          
+        * ace/SOCK_Dgram: Added Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it>
+          implementation of recv() for SOCK Dgrams that allows clients to
+          read from a socket without having to provide a buffer to read.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_task_four.cpp: This is a new test
+          program to test the new interfaces.  Thanks to Hamutal Yanay
+          & Ari Erev for this.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: Added a call to the new ACE_OS::mkdir()
+          wrapper to create the log directory if one doesn't already
+          exist.  This should solve some nasty problems with NT reported
+          by Tilo Christ <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de>.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new macro ACE_DEFAULT_DIR_PERMS and changed
+          the spelling of the existing ACE_DEFAULT_PERMS to
+          ACE_DEFAULT_FILE_PERMS, which is more accurate.
+
+Mon Oct 28 21:35:12 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a wrapper for the mkdir() system call.  We need
+          it for some of the tests.
+
+        * ace/Task: Changed the name of ACE_Task_Exit<>::set_this() to
+          ACE_Task_Exit<>::set_task().  Thanks to Hamutal Yanay & Ari Erev
+          for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/{Task,Thread_Manager}: Integrated Hamutal
+          <Hamutal_Yanay@hub.comverse.com> Yanay & Ari Erev's
+          <Ari_Erev@comverse.com> enhancements to add ACE_Task support
+          to the ACE_Thread_Manager.  This allows the ACE_Thread_Manager to
+          know about ACE_Tasks directly, rather than knowing
+          indirectly via their lower-level thread IDs.  The changes
+          are described below:
+
+           - Added a parameter to the activate() method. It is used to
+             pass an ACE_Task* to spawn_n().
+
+           - Modified suspend() and resume() to call
+             thrMgr->suspend_task() and thrMgr->resume_task() instead of
+             thrMgr->suspend_grp() and thrMgr->resume_grp().
+
+           - Added an ACE_Task * parameter to spawn_n().
+
+           - Added an ACE_Task * parameter to append_thr().
+
+           - append_thr() uses the ACE_Task * input parameter to
+             initialize the thread descriptor.
+
+           - Added the following methods:
+               apply_task()
+               suspend_task()
+               resume_task()
+               kill_task()
+               resume_task()
+               cancel_task()
+               find_task()
+
+               num_tasks_in_group()
+               num_threads_in_tasks()
+
+               task_list()
+               thread_list()
+               hthread_list()
+
+               set_grp() Like the current set_grp() but gets an ACE_Task *
+                         as input. 
+               get_grp() Like the current set_grp() but outputs an
+                         ACE_Task *. 
+
+               wait_task() 
+               wait_group()
+
+Sun Oct 27 11:25:00 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS: modified the ACE_OSCALL_RETURN macro so that we'll
+          no longer have zillions of warnings about _result not
+          used...
+
+        * ace/Synch_T: Changed the use of ACE_Mutex for ACE_TSS to
+          ACE_Thread_Mutex.
+
+        * ace: Added the necessary template specializations to get ACE
+          compiled correctly with G++.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.h: There were some places in the ACE_{DEBUG,ERROR}
+          macros that should have been using __ace_error but there still
+          using errno (which is wrong since this might be changed due to
+          side-effects of calling ACE_Log_Msg::instance()).  I found this
+          problem due to the use of -Wall with G++!  As a result of this
+          fix, ACE now compiles much more cleanly with gcc -Wall.
+
+        * ace/Strategy: Improved the scheme used to define the PEER_ADDR
+          type of the ACE_Accept_Strategy so that it will work correctly
+          on platforms whose C++ compilers aren't quite up to handling all
+          variants of template typedefs.  In particular, many platforms
+          don't support the use of template typedefs in parameter names...
+
+        * ace/OS: HP/UX omitted the const in the prototype of
+          const_timewait().  Therefore, I added a new typedef to handle
+          this and updated all the HP/UX config*.h files.
+
+        * ace: Added a new config file (config-sunos5.5-sunc++-4.1.h)
+          which reflects the fact that SunC++ 4.1 fixes template bugs that
+          prevented earlier versions from supporting template typedefs
+          correctly.  The new config file #defines
+          ACE_HAS_TEMPLATE_TYPEDEFS.
+
+Sat Oct 26 02:22:25 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: On the advice of David Levine, I compiled ACE with gcc
+          -Wall and started to fix lots of minor warnings (e.g.,
+          misordered data member initializations).
+
+        * ace/Local_Tokens.h: Changed the destructors of ACE_Mutex_Token,
+          ACE_RW_Token, ACE_Token_Proxy, and ACE_RW_Token to be virtual.
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.h: Changed the destructor of ACE_TSS to be virtual.
+
+        * ace/OS: Changed the prototype of ACE_OS::select() so that it
+          uses const ACE_Time_Value *.
+
+        * Updated all uses of ACE_Malloc to use the new ACE_*_MEMORY_POOL
+          #defines.  This makes it possible to use the ACE_Malloc<> scheme
+          with lame C++ compilers.
+
+        * ace/ACE: Changed the interface of the new timed send/recv calls
+          to use ACE_Time_Value *, which makes it easier to determine
+          the blocking semantics at runtime.  Thanks to Bill Fulton
+          <bill@fasttrack2.bscc.bls.com> for suggesting this.
+
+Sat Oct 26 15:55:02 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: We determined that MSVC++ is capable of supporting
+          template typedefs.  Therefore, we can enable the
+          ACE_HAS_TEMPLATE_TYPEDEFS flag, which makes life much easier for
+          end users!
+
+Fri Oct 25 23:16:16 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Shared_Malloc/test_multiple_mallocs.cpp: Added a new
+          test that demonstrates the new ability of ACE_Malloc<> to to
+          handle multiple mallocs rooted at different base addresses.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool: Fixed this stuff so that it works even when C++
+          compilers can't grok template typedefs.
+
+        * ace: Put all the macros that handle the fact that many C++
+          compilers have broken template implementations into one place
+          (OS.h), rather than having this spread out in many files.
+
+        * In ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool::init_acquire (), we reset errno to 0 in
+          the case where the file already exists (and errno == EEXIST).
+
+        * Added an ACE_*_Memory_Pool_Options class to each Memory Pool
+          class. The Options class allows detailed parameters to be passed
+          to the constructor of the Memory Pool class. Since a typedef'd
+          Options class was added to every Memory Pool class, this gave us
+          the ability to use traits in ACE_Malloc and
+          ACE_Allocator_Adapter to construct generic Memory Pools that can
+          be initialized uniquely for each instance of ACE_Malloc.  Note
+          that this new feature only works for C++ compilers that support
+          template typedefs correctly (e.g., MSVC++ 4.x, SunC++ 4.1,
+          and the AIX C++ compiler).
+
+        * Added additional constructors to ACE_Malloc and
+          ACE_Allocator_Adapter to allow Options to be passed in to Memory
+          Pool.
+
+        * Added an extra field in ACE_Name_Options which allows
+          specification of the base address of the memory pool. This is
+          now used by ACE_Local_Name_Space::create_manager() to create an
+          ACE_Allocator_Adapter.  This now allows us to have multiple
+          ACE_Naming_Context simultaneously in the same process address
+          space.
+
+        * Also added error checking for constructors (in
+          ACE_Local_Name_Space and ACE_Malloc) by checking errno
+          values. This is a "hack" since we currently do not use exception
+          handling.
+
+Thu Oct 24 02:43:11 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Connection/misc/Makefile: The Makefile in
+          ACE_wrappers/examples/Connection/misc seems to have been
+          truncated.  I replaced it.  Thanks to Alan Stewart
+          <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/SOCK_SAP/CPP-{inclient,inserver}.cpp: Updated
+          these examples to use the new timed send()/recv() operations.
+
+        * ace/SOCK_IO: Added timed send()/recv() methods, using the base
+          level implementations in class ACE.
+
+        * ace/ACE: Added timed send()/recv() methods.
+
+Wed Oct 23 19:56:45 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/SOCK_SAP/CPP-inclient.cpp (main): Changed the
+          behavior of the test program so that it doesn't take a
+          local_addr, but rather will use the default (this prevents a
+          common problem that happens when users run the test without
+          reading the README file).
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp: Added a new method (get_flags) that returns the
+          current setting of flags associated with handle.
+
+        * Start of a brave new world: ACE is now under CVS version
+          control...  Thanks to David Levine and Chris Cleeland
+          for making this happen.
+
+Sat Oct 19 12:33:56 1996  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * added ACE threads mappings to VxWorks 5.2 tasks in OS.*.
+          NOTE:  this is _untested_ at this point, but only affects
+          VxWorks code
+
+        * changed name of first argument of ACE_OS::sigprocmask() and
+          ACE_OS::thr_sigsetmask() from "signum" to "how" to better
+          represent what it really is.
+
+Wed Oct 16 01:59:40 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp (print): added Luca's suggestion for checking
+          if host_name == 0 for the ostream version of print(), as well.
+
+        * Released version of ACE 4.0.32 for testing.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Added many small fixes for HP/UX 10.x.  Thanks to
+          Alan Stewart <axs2@osi.com> for providing these.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added many new ACE_LACKS* and ACE_HAS* macros to
+          support the MVS port.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr
+          <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for these.
+
+Tue Oct 15 11:56:59 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: in a continuing effort to protect the ACE namespace,
+          I've changed ace/OS.h around lines 127-137 so that "SYNCH" and
+          "SYNCH_MUTEX", etc. are prefixed with "ACE_".  Thanks to Alan
+          Stewart <axs2@osi.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Local_Tokens.h: Removed an unnecessary parameter name
+          that was unused.   Thanks to Stuart Powell <stuartp@in.ot.com.au>
+          for reporting this.
+
+Tue Oct 15 17:03:37 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx.cpp (handle_events): Fixed a bug in handle_events
+          so that the correct handlers get called when multiple handles
+          become signaled simultaneously.  Thanks to Ari Erev
+          <Ari_Erev@comverse.com> for pointing out this bug.  I also took
+          this opportunity to fix a bug when handlers are removed during
+          handle_events.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_remove_handler.cpp: Added a new
+          application that tests how the ReactorEx services simultaneous
+          events and removes handlers.  This example also illustrates the
+          use of the new ACE_Events wrapper.  Check
+          examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/README for more details.
+
+Mon Oct 14 11:43:18 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests: Added a new version of run_tests.sh, which was
+          contributed by Michael Rueger <mike@SYSCOMP.DE>.
+
+        * examples/Logger/simple-server/Logging_Handler.cpp (handle_input)
+          and examples/Logger/Acceptor-server/server_loggerd.cpp
+          (handle_input): Changed from stderr to cerr to work around bugs
+          with the C run-time libraries on Win32.  Thanks to Tilo Christ
+          <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for suggesting this.
+
+Mon Oct 14 11:09:42 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp (remap): Added processor specific
+          stuff to remap(). The code was taken from the book "Win32
+          Network Programming" by Ralph Davis (p.18) and takes care of
+          cases specific to the 80x86 processor. The code ensures that the
+          registers are set properly when we continue execution after an
+          exception.
+
+Sun Oct 13 21:18:38 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp (print): Added a test to make sure that the
+          value returned from ctime_r != 0 (e.g., if time_stamp_ == -1) in
+          order to avoid crashes.
+
+        * examples/Logger/client/logging_app.cpp (main): Moved the
+          construction of the ACE_Log_Record log_record object into the
+          loop so that it will be recreated each time through.  If this
+          isn't done, then we'll be continually "encoding" values into
+          network byte order that have already been encoded and screwing
+          things up on little-endian machines (such as Intel).  Thanks to
+          Irfan and Tilo Christ <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for pointing
+          me in the right direction on this.
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp: Changed the default constructor so that it
+          gives default initializations to the data members.
+
+        * examples/Logger/Acceptor-server/server_loggerd.cpp (handle_input): 
+          Fixed a couple of typos where 
+
+          Logging_Handler::handle_input (int)
+
+          should be:
+
+          Logging_Handler::handle_input (ACE_HANDLE)
+
+          and
+
+          size_t len;
+
+          should be:
+
+          ssize_t len;
+
+          Thanks to Irfan for finding these.
+
+Sat Oct 12 08:48:23 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Released a beta version of ACE 4.0.32 for testing.
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp: rewrote the code a bit to try and avoid
+          problems on NT when host_name == 0.
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp: Changed the use of ACE_OS::ctime() to
+          ACE_OS::ctime_r() to avoid problems that might arise when
+          ACE_Log_Record::print() is called from multiple threads.
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp: Commented out calls to ACE_TRACE to avoid
+          weird problems with circular dependencies.  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for suggesting this.
+
+        * build/SunOS5.5/examples/Makefile: Added the Logger directory to
+          the list of targets that are build automatically by Make.
+
+Fri Oct 11 17:13:03 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace: Fixed lots of small warnings revealed when using the
+          Greenhills compiler on VxWorks.  Thanks to David Levine for
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Pipe.h: In Pipe.h, the return value of ACE_Pipe::close()
+          isn't explicitly declared, so some compilers gag.  Thanks to
+          David Levine for this.
+
+Thu Oct 10 12:05:55 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Thread.cpp: Correctly wrapped the methods in the *.cpp file
+          so that they are ignored if threads *aren't* supported.
+
+        * ace/Service_Repository.cpp (remove): Added the ACE_MT in front
+          of all the ACE_GUARD* macros that utilize ACE_Thread* locks in
+          order to ensure that ACE compiles correctly on all non-MT
+          platforms.
+
+        * examples/Shared_Malloc/Malloc.cpp: Removed the special purpose
+          class for PROCESS_MUTEX since ACE_Process_Mutex will now work
+          for non-MT platforms.
+
+        * examples/Misc/test_dump.cpp: Changed all occurrences of
+
+          cerr << "string " << this << endl;
+
+          to 
+
+          cerr << "string " << (u_long) this << endl;
+
+          to work around problems with IRIX 5.3.  Thanks to Tilo Christ
+          <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-linux.h: Added a // in front of a stray comment line.
+          Thanks to Neil Cohen for pointing this out.
+
+        * ace/config-hpux-10.x-g++.h: Added a new config file for HP/UX
+          10.x which should fix some problems with templates by using the
+          G++ compiler.  Thanks to <afarahat@CCGATE.HAC.COM> for
+          contributing this.
+
+Wed Oct  9 14:34:19 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS: Changed the logic of socket initialization, which has
+          been moved out of ACE_SOCK and into ACE_OS.  This makes it
+          possible to program more fully at the ACE_OS API (if such a
+          crazy thing is really necessary ;-)).
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/SOCK_SAP/C-in{client,server}.cpp: Fixed up the
+          client and server apps so they will work on NT
+          (i.e., replaced the use of int with ACE_HANDLE).  Thanks to Joe
+          DeAngelis <bytor@faxint.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Now that we've got support for POSIX semaphores on
+          Solaris, then we'll use them (when they are supported...) as the
+          implementation of ACE_Process_Semaphore rather than using the
+          slower ACE_SV_Semaphore_Complex stuff...
+
+        * ace/OS.{h,i}: Added David Levine's support for named POSIX
+          semaphores.  If ACE_HAS_POSIX_SEM is defined, then ACE_Semaphore
+          will construct a named POSIX semaphore if passed a non-null
+          name, or an unamed POSIX semaphore if passed a null name.  This
+          is a great addition because POSIX semaphores are more powerful
+          and useful than the Solaris UI semaphores.  Unfortunately,
+          Solaris 2.5 doesn't support them (yet).
+
+Tue Oct  8 16:00:00 1996  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS: Integrated Irfan's encapsulation/emulation for Win32
+          Events at the ACE_OS level. A new structure ACE_event_t was
+          created to support Events on non-WIN32 platforms.  On WIN32
+          platforms ACE_event_t is just a HANDLE.  On non-WIN32 platforms,
+          ACE_event_t uses a combination of mutexes, condition variables,
+          and counters to emulate Events. Both auto-reset and manual-reset
+          events are supported.
+
+        * ace/Synch: Integrated Irfan's encapsulation/emulation for Win32
+          Events at the C++ wrappers level. There are three wrappers that
+          were created: ACE_Event, ACE_Auto_Event, and ACE_Manual_Event.
+          ACE_Event is a wrapper for the ACE_event_t structure. It
+          provides functionality for signal, wait, pulse, and reset on an
+          event. ACE_Event supports both auto-reset and manual-reset
+          events. However, specializations of ACE_Event were created
+          (ACE_Manual_Event and ACE_Auto_Event) to make it easier to use
+          Events.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_manual_event.cpp: A test for manual-reset
+          events. The test involves the creation and use of a barrier
+          which uses an ACE_Manual_Event.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_auto_event.cpp: A test for auto-reset
+          events. The test involves the use of an ACE_Auto_Event for
+          signaling threads.
+
+Tue Oct  8 15:45:01 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/DEV.cpp (ACE_DEV): Removed a stray call to
+          ACE_IO_SAP::dump().  Thanks to Brad Flood <BFLOOD@tcs.lmco.com>
+          for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added ACE_HAS_CHARPTR_SOCKOPT for VxWorks.  Thanks to
+          David Levine for this.
+
+        * ace/Dump.cpp (instance): Added an ACE_MT() macro around the
+          ACE_GUARD_RETURN macro so that this will compile correctly on
+          non-threaded platforms.  Thanks to David Levine for this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: the declaration of ACE_OS::msgctl needs "struct
+          msqid_ds" instead of just "msqid_ds" to compile with the
+          Greenhills C++ compiler.  Thanks to David Levine for this...
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.h: Added #include "ace/Local_Name_Space.h" 
+          to avoid a problem during template generation.  Thanks to 
+          Chris Lahey for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (getprotobynumber_r): Added a pair of fixes from Chris
+          Lahey to get the ACE wrappers for the getprotoby*_r() methods to
+          compile on AIX.
+
+        * examples/Threads: Added two new examples (test_auto_event.cpp
+          and test_manual_event.cpp) that exercise the new ACE_Event
+          mechanisms.
+
+        * ace/Synch: Integrated Irfan's encapsulation/emulation for Win32
+          Events at the C++ wrappers level.
+
+        * ace/OS: Integrated Irfan's encapsulation/emulation for Win32 
+          Events at the ACE_OS level.
+
+Fri Oct  4 08:32:47 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added David Levine's new ACE_OS::mktemp() implementation.
+
+Wed Oct  2 13:26:20 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/SV_Message_Queue.i: Changed the casts of (msgbuf *) to
+          (void *).
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added David Levine's implementation of inet_addr() for
+          VxWorks.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Continued to merge together various parts of Win32 and
+          UNIX to reduce redundancies.
+
+Tue Oct  1 15:03:42 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added Chuck Gehr's new changes to ACE_OS::mutex_init()
+          and ACE_OS::cond_init() to handle the MVS Pthreads madness.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added zillions of #ifdefs for VXWORKS.  It's amazing
+          these guys call themselves POSIX compliant -- lots of stuff is
+          missing.  Thanks to David Levine for doing this!
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp: Added David Levine's implementation of mktemp()
+          for platforms that don't support it.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a bunch of minor changes for VXWORKS.  In
+          addition, started to factor out common #ifdefs to make the code
+          easier to maintain.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new macro for ACE_LACKS_UTSNAME, and factored
+          this out for both VxWorks and Win32.
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.h: Added support for 2 VXWORKSisms: (1) we need
+          to #include sys/times.h rather than the standard UNIX sys/time.h
+          and (2) we need to change const timeval & to const struct
+          timeval & to keep the Greenhills compiler happy.  Thanks to
+          David Levine for this.
+
+        * ace/INET_Addr.cpp: Added support for the insane VXWORKS
+          hostGetByName() function.  Yikes!  Thanks to David Levine for
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.cpp: Added a new #define called ACE_LACKS_SBRK
+          and ACE_LACKS_SYSV_SHMEM, which is enabled on Win32 and VxWorks.
+          Thanks to David Levine for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added new macros that #define ETIME for platforms like
+          VxWorks that don't support it, but do support ETIMEDOUT.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added placeholder #defines for USYNC_PROCESS and
+          USYNC_THREAD when !defined (ACE_HAS_THREADS).  Thanks to Neil
+          Cohen for reporting this.
+
+Tue Oct  1 00:42:35 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@polka.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Message_Block.cpp (size): Member base_ of ACE_Message_Block
+          was being set to the new memory pointer before the old contents
+          are saved in method size.  So the line 
+
+          this->base_ = buf;
+
+          was moved to a place some lines below.  Thanks to Marco Sommerau
+          <sommerau@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> for detecting this.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.cpp: Changed the implementation of the
+          enqueue_i() method so that FIFO order is maintained when
+          messages of the same priority are inserted consecutively.
+          Thanks to Jay Denkberg <jay_denkberg@comverse.com> for
+          suggesting this.
+
+Mon Sep 30 22:59:38 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@polka.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_yield): Added a new macro ACE_HAS_YIELD_VOID_PTR
+          to make pthread_yield work on MVS.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr
+          <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for this fix.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new macro called ACE_HAS_TIMEZONE_GETTIMEOFDAY
+          that handles problems on MVS.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr
+          <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for this fix.
+
+Mon Sep 30 13:45:10 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Local_Tokens.h: Updated some documentation in all the Token
+          files.
+
+Mon Sep 30 18:01:12 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/: Renamed files Logger.{h,cpp} to
+          Logging_Strategy.{h,cpp} to avoid confusion with Server_Logging
+          and Client_Logging stuff. In addition, I modified the affected
+          files, including Makefile, README, and the config files in the
+          tests directory.
+
+Sun Sep 29 12:47:37 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added Chuck Gehr <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> fixes for
+          MVS to enable signals to work correctly.
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.h: Added an extern "C" { } block around #include
+          <pthreads.h> to solve a problem with Linux.  Thanks to Padhu
+          Ramalingam <padhu@magicnet.net> for reporting this.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Server_Logging_Handler.cpp: Changed the
+          initialization of a static template object from ::request_count_
+          (0L) to ::request_count_ = 0L.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Remote_Tokens.h: Moved the inclusion of "Singleton.h" from
+          Remote_Tokens.cpp to Remote_Tokens.h.  This should avoid
+          template instantiation problems on some platforms (e.g., Irix
+          6.2).
+
+        * ace/config-irix6.2-sgic++.h: Changed ACE_HAS_SIGINFO to
+          ACE_HAS_SIGINFO_T and added ACE_HAS_UCONTEXT_T.  Thanks to
+          Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Token_Invariants.h: The ctor/dtor were private and the
+          compiler would not allow a template of the class to be created.
+          I switched them to public, but I wish there was a better way...
+          Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.h: #include'd "ace/Event_Handler.h".  Thanks to
+          Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: The parameter name gives warnings when
+          instantiating templates.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Process: Changed the definition of the get_pid() method to
+          getpid() to avoid a conflict with Irix.  Thanks to Gonzalo
+          Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (log): Added another #elif !defined (ACE_WIN32)
+          to handle logging for OS platforms that (1) aren't Win32 and (2)
+          are versions of UNIX that don't support STREAM pipes.  Thanks to
+          Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Acceptor.cpp (handle_signal): Erased the signum parameter
+          name to avoid a nasty warning about arguments not used when
+          instantiating templates.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added the ACE_Export symbol to the definition of
+          ACE_Str_Buf.  This makes it compile and link on NT.  Thanks to
+          Prashant for noticing this (our favorite Win32ism...).
+
+        * ace/Thread.h (ACE_Thread): Removed a default argument for one of
+          the ACE_Thread::join() wrappers so this won't be ambiguous with
+          the other join() wrapper.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new wrapper for strtok_r().
+
+Sun Sep 29 16:12:01 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/: Renamed the project file for Win32 from lib.mdp to
+          netsvcs.mdp. Also the original project file did not include some
+          files such as Naming_Handler.cpp and Server_Logging_Handler.cpp
+          and I fixed that. Finally removed two files System_Time.{h,cpp}
+          which are already present in ace/.
+
+Sat Sep 28 16:34:56 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new overloaded select() method that takes a
+          const ACE_Time_Value &.  This is useful for situations where you
+          are passing in ACE_Time_Value::zero.
+
+Fri Sep 27 16:20:46 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@polka.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ACE: Added a fix for the fact that VxWork's write() call
+          doesn't take a const char *.
+
+        * ace: Started adding support for VxWorks and GreenHills compiler,
+          e.g., added the config-vxwork-ghs-1.8.h file.  Thanks to David
+          Levine <levine@cs.wustl.edu> for getting this rolling!
+
+Thu Sep 26 00:15:46 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Timer_Queue: Changed the public interface methods to be
+          virtual in order to make it possible to override them in
+          subclasses.  This makes it feasible to implement different types
+          of Timers.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a wrapper for the strspn() string call.  Thanks to
+          Irfan for noticing this omission.
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.cpp (wait): Changed the line:
+
+          return ACE_OS::cond_wait (&this->cond_, this->mutex_);
+
+          to
+
+          return ACE_OS::cond_wait (&this->cond_, &this->mutex_.lock_);
+
+          Thanks to Dieter Quehl <dietrich.quehl@med-iss1.med.siemens.de>
+          for noticing this.
+
+        * ace/config-sunos5.4-g++.h: Removed the #define for
+          ACE_HAS_BROKEN_RANDR and replaced the ACE_HAS_SVR4_SIGNAL_T with
+          ACE_HAS_CONSISTENT_SIGNAL_PROTOTYPES since it looks like the
+          latest gcc release (2.7.2) fixes this in their own header files.
+
+Sat Sep 21 10:45:43 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a new #define called ACE_HAS_BROKEN_MSG_H to the
+          config-osf1-3.2.h file and used it in OS.h to work around
+          problems with <msg.h> prototypes on that platform.
+
+Fri Sep 20 00:15:29 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Released version 4.0.31 for testing.
+
+        * ace/Pipe.cpp: Initialize handles_ to ACE_INVALID_HANDLE in
+          default constructor.  Thanks to Tim Harrison for pointing this
+          out.
+
+        * ace: Copied in new versions of ace.{mak,mdp} for Win32.
+
+        * ace: Added TTY_IO.cpp to the Makefile.
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc[24].0.h: Updated the config file so that
+          it *doesn't* #define ACE_HAS_STRBUF_T since this type clearly
+          isn't available on Win32!
+
+        * ace: Modified all of OS.i and config-*.h files so that they
+          would be consisten with respect to handling the size_t and int
+          differences in socket implementations.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr
+          <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for helping with this for AIX.
+
+        * ace/ACE.h (ACE): Added a new method called max_handles() that
+          returns the maximum number of open handles currently supported
+          by the process.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Misc/signal_tester.cpp: Revised the test to
+          utilize the new idioms for programming with signals.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: added a new #define called ACE_DEV_NULL that defaults
+          to "/dev/null" on UNIX and "nul" on NT.  Thanks to David Trumble
+          <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> for reporting this fix.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp: Added some checks to make sure that we don't
+          try to strdup() if we are passed a NULL pointer.  Thanks to Luca
+          for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Move ACE_Str_Buf into OS.{h,i} and remove the Str_Buf.h
+          file.
+
+        * Makefile: Added the "performance-tests" directory to the list of
+          directories we build when making ACE.
+
+        * ace: Moved the definition of strbuf from Str_Buf.h into OS.h.
+          Thanks to Irfan for recommending this.
+
+        * ace/Makefile: Added some additional sed magic on the
+          Svc_Conf_y.cpp file in order to remove the very last warnings
+          from MSVC++!
+
+Thu Sep 19 00:00:17 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp (open): Only initialize the logger to use
+          STDERR if the user hasn't already set the ACE_Log_Msg::flags().
+          Thanks to Tom Leith <trl@icon-stl.net> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Removed all traces of the ACE_HAS_INT_SOCKNAME and
+          ACE_HAS_LENPTR_SOCKOPT since Chris Lahey's new fixes for AIX
+          obviate the need for these.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Only #include <rpc/rpc.h> if the platform has RPC!
+          Thanks to Chuck Gehr <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for suggesting
+          this.
+
+        * ace: Removed all uses of ACE_HAS_SETOWN and replaced them with
+          explicit tests for F_SETOWN and FASYNC.  This is more portable.
+          Thanks to Chuck Gehr <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for suggesting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new #define called ACE_HAS_SIZET_SOCKET_LEN to
+          handle platforms where the length parameter of bind(),
+          connect(), accept(), etc. uses size_t rather than int.  This
+          helps to get ACE working on MVS.  Thanks to Chuck Gehr
+          <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added Chris Lahey's fixes that make the
+          getprotoby{name,number}_r() functions work for AIX.
+
+        * ace: Changed the ACE_HAS_STRUCT_HOSTENT_DATA to
+          ACE_HAS_STRUCT_NETDB_DATA because we use a single symbol to
+          refer to all of the odd netdb.h stuff that AIX has...
+
+        * ace: Changed all uses of:
+
+          iovec *iovp = (iovec *) alloca (total_tuples * sizeof *iovp);
+
+          to
+
+          iovec *iovp = (iovec *) alloca (total_tuples * sizeof (iovec));
+
+          to keep the AIX compiler from complaining (falsely) about using
+          iovp before it is initialized.  Thanks to Chris Lahey for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added Chris Lahey's changes that handle AIX's
+          _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE features without polluting all the socket
+          implementations!
+
+        * ace/Thread.cpp (spawn_n): Removed an unreferenced local variable
+          so that the Win32 compiler doesn't complain.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added the definition for strbuf{} for NT.
+
+        * ace: Removed the msg_hack.h file since it had OSF and DEC
+          copyright info in it.  Replaced this with Antonio Tortorici's
+          <antonio@rh0011.roma.tlsoft.it> clever use of _KERNEL and the
+          new ACE_LACKS_SYSV_MSQ_PROTOS.
+
+        * ace/INET_Addr.h: Updated the documentation to indicate more
+          clearly the use of getservbyname().
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Added basic hooks to support the use of
+          AfxBeginThread on Win32.  This is necessary to allow ACE to work
+          seemlessly with MFC applications.  Added an THR_USE_AFX flag
+          that can be "or'd" in with the other thread flags in calls to
+          ACE_OS::thr_create().  If this flag is enabled *and* if we are
+          compiling with ACE_HAS_MFC enabled, then AfxBeginThread() is
+          called rather than _beginthreadex().
+
+        * ace/INET_Addr.h (set): Fixed a typo in the documentation for
+          set() (the order of "host:port" was backwards...).  Thanks to
+          Brad Flood <BFLOOD@tcs.lmco.com> for reporting this.
+ 
+Wed Sep 18 00:36:01 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/SOCK_IO.cpp: Added a new recv() method that allows a client
+          to read from a socket without having to provide a buffer to
+          read.  This method determines how much data is in the socket,
+          allocates a buffer of this size, reads in the data, and returns
+          the number of bytes read.  The caller is responsible for
+          deleting the memory.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli
+          <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added a special #ifdef for IRIX 6.2 threads so that
+          THR_BOUND and THR_SCOPE_SYSTEM are different.  Thanks to Gonzalo
+          Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Message_Block.i (msg_class): Added a new "class" of messages
+          to ACE_Message_Block: MB_USER.  This is useful for writing
+          extensible applications a la Microslush Windows MSG stuff...
+
+Tue Sep 17 16:38:44 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Message_Block: Changed the signature of the
+          ACE_Message_Block constructors (and init()) so that they take
+          const char * rather than char *.  In addition, changed the
+          definition of one of the constructors (and init()) so that it
+          takes a size field in addition to the buffer.
+
+        * ace/Message_Block.cpp (size): Fixed a bug in the
+          ACE_Message_Block::size() method -- we were failing to deal with
+          allocators and ownership correctly during a resize.  Thanks to
+          Amos Shapira <amos_shapira@mail.icomverse.com> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Naming_Context.cpp: Removed the source of yet another
+          warning about "inconsistent dll linkage.  dllexport assumed."
+
+        * ace/Mem_Map.cpp (map_it): Added a cast to size_t (file_len)
+          because by this time we know that file_len >= 0.  This avoids
+          yet another warning on WinNT!
+
+        * ace/Reactor.h: Fixed the remaining warnings about
+          "signed/unsigned mismatch" in Win32 by changing the type of
+          cur_size_ from size_t to ssize_t.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp: Modified the code so that on NT we use
+          ACE_SPIPE_Msg rather than ACE_FIFO_Send_Msg.  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Implemented the and put[p]msg() wrappers by being
+          smart about allocating and copying data.
+
+        * ace/TTY_IO.cpp (control): There was one too many end parentheses
+          on line 192 of TTY_IO.cpp.  Thanks to Dave Trumble
+          <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> for reporting this fix.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (local_host): Fixed the use of program_name_ and
+          local_host_ so that they strdup() the values passed by the
+          users, rather than copying pointers.  This avoids problems if
+          the user doesn't pass in static memory.  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting this.  Somehow
+          this change got lost and I've reapplied it...
+
+        * ace/Log_Record.cpp (round_up): Added an extra + 1 to the length
+          since otherwise the final '\0' gets lots if len is a multiple of
+          8.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting
+          this.  Somehow this change got lost and I've reapplied it.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.h: removed #if defined (ACE_HAS_SIGINFO_T) logic
+          from both handle_signal() definitions (ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool
+          and ACE_MMAP_Memory_Pool).  Thanks to Chris Lahey for fixing
+          this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Moved the define of SA_RESTART below the #include for
+          signal.h.  Otherwise SA_RESTART will always be defined by OS.h,
+          since SA_RESTART is defined on AIX in signal.h.  Thanks to Chris
+          Lahey for fixing this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added some new #pragmas to suppress harmless warnings
+          for the MSVC++ compiler.
+
+Tue Sep 17 13:20:53 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space_T.cpp: Modified ACE_Local_Name_Space::
+          create_manager () so that all three naming scopes use the
+          database variable defined in Name Options. This allows us to
+          specify different names for databases for all three naming
+          contexts. However, it is imporant to note that this can lead to
+          potential problems where, for example, a process may use the
+          same name for PROC_LOCAL database as an already existing
+          NET_LOCAL database.
+
+Mon Sep 16 01:31:21 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Logger/simple-server/Logging_Handler: get_handle(),
+          handle_input(), and handle_close() want the right types
+          (ACE_HANDLE instead of int).  Thanks to Luca Priorelli
+          <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting these.
+
+        * examples/Logger/simple-server/Logging_Acceptor.cpp: Fixed a typo
+          (Log_Mskg.h should be Log_Msg.h of course...).  In addition,
+          changed the use of -1 to ACE_INVALID_HANDLE.  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting these.
+
+
+        * ace: Changed all uses of ACE_HAS_ACE_INLINED_OSCALLS to
+          ACE_HAS_INLINED_OSCALLS.  This was a vestiage of a global
+          replace gone amok.  Thanks to Alan Stweart <Axs2@osi.com> for
+          reporting this!
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (open): Added a check for the OSTREAM flag in
+          the ACE logger.  Thanks to Rick Orr
+          <rorr@costello.den.csci.csc.com> for noticing this.
+
+        * Released version 4.0.30 for testing.
+
+        * netsvcs/clients/Naming/Dump_Restore/Dump_Restore.cpp
+          (Dump_Restore): Deleted an extra "return 0;" within a
+          constructor (duh...).
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_process_{semaphore,mutex}.cpp (main):
+          Fixed some annoying G++ compiler bug related problems.  We need
+          to use old-style C casts to prevent ambiguous parsing.
+
+        * examples/ASX/Event_Server/Transceiver/transceiver: Rewrote this
+          example to illustrate how to use the ACE_Connector and
+          ACE_Svc_Handler.
+
+        * examples/ASX/Event_Server/Transceiver/transceiver: Finally clued
+          in and realized that it is just not suitable to implement the
+          event server transceiver with separate threads for input and
+          output.  It is simply to non-portable to get these shut down
+          gracefully.  I think John Ousterhout was right -- threads are
+          evil!
+          
+        * examples/ASX/Event_Server: Merged the Consumer/Supplier
+          directories into a single Transceiver directory to reflect the
+          fact that the Consumer and Supplier were completely symmetrical!
+
+        * ace/Module.cpp (close): Don't delete the Tasks in a Module if
+          there are still threads running in them.  Otherwise we'll end up
+          with a big mess.
+
+Mon Sep 16 15:50:45 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * performance-tests/Misc/test_naming.cpp: Added a new test to the
+          performance-tests directory called test_naming which simply does
+          performance testing on Naming Service. The test runs both the
+          SYNC and the NO-SYNC version of Naming Service.
+
+Mon Sep 16 15:22:52 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp (initiate): Added a check for
+          ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED after ReadFile/WriteFile.  Now the
+          initiating handler is immediately dispatched for EOF *and*
+          closed connections.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli
+          <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for suggesting this change.
+
+Sun Sep 15 00:55:59 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * Fixed all uses of ACE_Service_Config::end_event_loop() and
+          ACE_Service_Config::run_event_loop() to be
+          ACE_Service_Config::end_reactor_event_loop() and
+          ACE_Service_Config::run_reactor_event_loop() since we now have
+          to consider the other event loops (e.g., Proactor and ReactorEx)
+          and it doesn't seem right to relegate those to 2nd class status.
+
+        * ace: Finally got fed up with all the #ifdefs required to deal
+          with extended signals and just changed the
+          ACE_Event_Handler::handle_signal() method to always use the
+          extended signal interface.  Fortunately, we can use default
+          values to hid this from callers (though you may need to change
+          your class definitions if you were assuming the
+          handle_signal(int) interface.
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.h: Changed all the methods of the various
+          Memory_Pool classes to be virtual so that subclasses can
+          selectively override them.  This shouldn't affect performance
+          since all existing use cases work directly with the "derived"
+          classes themselves, so there shouldn't be any overhead since the
+          compiler can use direct calls rather than virtual function
+          calls.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Changed the call to CreateThread() to
+          _beginthreadex() and the call to ExitThread() to _endthreadex()
+          for Win32 in order to make ACE threads work correctly with
+          Win32.  Thanks to James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for
+          recommending this.
+
+        * ace/ACE: Added two new static functions: read_adapter() and
+          register_stdin_handler().  These are useful when writing code
+          that must demultiplexing ACE_STDIN on both Win32 and UNIX.  This
+          works around Win32 limitations that don't allow us to select()
+          on non-sockets (such as ACE_STDIN).
+
+        * examples/ASX/CCM_App/SC_Server.cpp: Updated this
+          test so that it should now work correctly on Win32, where it
+          isn't possible to select() on STDIN...
+
+        * ace/Synch_T: Added a new class to ACE called "ACE_Test_and_Set."
+          As this name implies, this class implements an atomic ``test and
+          set'' abstraction.  This has all sorts of useful implications,
+          particularly because it is a template that can be paramaterized
+          by the type of LOCK (e.g., ACE_Null_Mutex, ACE_Thread_Mutex,
+          etc.) and the type of TYPE (e.g., int, double, sig_atomic_t,
+          etc.).  In addition, because this "is-a" ACE_Event_Handler it
+          instances can be registered with the Reactor and used to shut
+          down event hoops gracefully upon receipt of certain signals
+          (e.g., SIGINT).  In fact, I've redone many of the example
+          applications (e.g., ./examples/Logger/server/server_loggerd.cpp)
+          to illustrate how this works.
+
+Sun Sep 15 20:40:17 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx.cpp (notify): I've redesigned this code.
+          Previously, ReactorEx was explicitly managing a handle that it
+          kept in handles_[0].  handles_[0] was used to implement
+          ReactorEx::notify, which allowed other threads to wake up the
+          thread waiting in ReactorEx::handle_events.  Now ReactorEx has
+          an Event_Handler (ReactorEx_Notify) that is registered in the
+          constructor of ReactorEx.  This allows us to treat events from
+          handles_[0] just like every other event (i.e. by dispatching to
+          handles_[0]->handle_signal). One of the results of this change
+          is that code in remove_handler() is simplified a bit.
+
+Sun Sep 15 17:56:52 1996  Prashant Jain  <pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Naming_Context.cpp: Added a new flag to the constructor and
+          open() method of ACE_Naming_Context that allows us to specify
+          which Memory_Pool to use when creating ACE_Local_Name_Space
+          (that is choose between ACE_MMap_Memory_Pool and
+          ACE_Lite_MMap_Memory_Pool). 
+
+        * ace/Memory_Pool.cpp: Added a new class called
+          ACE_Lite_MMap_Memory_Pool which subclasses ACE_MMap_Memory_Pool
+          and overrides the sync method so that it is a no-op.
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space.cpp: Made some siginificant changes in
+          ACE_Local_Name_Space. Here is what the problem was:
+          ACE_Name_Space_Map (which is an ACE_Map_Manager) used an
+          ACE_RW_Process_Mutex for synchronization. However, since the Map
+          was kept in shared memory and was shared by all the processes,
+          it got instantiated only by the first process which came
+          along. Therefore, only the first process got around to creating
+          and initializing the lock. 
+
+          In fixing the problem, we made some other changes to
+          ACE_Local_Name_Space and ACE_Name_Space_Map.  Both classes are
+          now template classes. ACE_Local_Name_Space needs to be
+          parameterized with a Memory_Pool (thus giving us a hook to
+          implement the NO-SYNC option) as well as a LOCK.
+          ACE_Name_Space_Map needs to be parameterized by an ALLOCATOR
+          which is created by ACE_Local_Name_Space. Note that the reason
+          we need to parameterize ACE_Name_Space_Map is so that we can
+          pass an ACE_Allocator_Adapter (which subclasses from
+          ACE_Allocator) with every method. It is not possible to pass an
+          ACE_Allocator since the ::remap() method relies on an
+          allocator() method defined on the ALLOCATOR that is passed in
+          (and ACE_Allocator does not define an allocator() method). 
+
+          The purpose of the class ACE_Name_Space_Map still remains the
+          same. It IS_A Map_Manager and provides the hook to set the
+          allocator to the process specific one. However, none of its
+          methods acquire any locks. For that reason, the Map_Manager is
+          parameterized with the Null_Mutex. All synchronization takes
+          place inside ACE_Local_Name_Space. ACE_Naming_Context
+          instantiates ACE_Local_Name_Space (depending upon the scope) and
+          by default parameterizes it with ACE_MMap_Memory_Pool and
+          ACE_RW_Process_Mutex. 
+
+          Also made some more fixes to ACE_Local_Name_Space. In
+          create_manager(), after we create the allocator, we now check to
+          see if the backing store was created successfully and if not, we
+          return -1. 
+
+Sat Sep 14 00:00:31 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Logger: Renamed the original server directory to
+          "simple-server" and added a new directory called
+          "Acceptor-server" which implements the Logger using the
+          ACE_Acceptor.  Note that almost all of the implementation code
+          disappears!
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Server_T.cpp: Removed the name_server_map_ array
+          and replaced it with the ACE_NAME_SERVER_MAP #define, which is
+          now contained in OS.h.
+
+        * ace/Malloc.h: Added "virtual ... = 0" to the bind() and
+          trybind() methods of the ACE_Allocator since they should be pure
+          virtual functions...
+
+        * ace/Synch{_T}: Separated out the wait (ACE_Time_Value *) and
+          wait (void) methods in order to optimize the call sequence for
+          the common case when there is no timeout.
+
+        * ace/Synch: Added a new wait(ACE_Thread_Mutex &) method to
+          ACE_Condition_Thread_Mutex so that we are consistent with the
+          templated ACE_Condition_Mutex.
+
+        * include/makeinclude: Changed uses of -pic to -PIC because ACE is
+          now creating more than 2082 symbols.  It's probably time to
+          split up the library...
+
+        * ace/DEV_IO: Moved the ACE_DEV_Addr instance from ACE_DEV_IO into
+          ACE_DEV so that it will be available for the ACE_DEV_Connector.
+          This fixes a bug that prevented us from using the ACE_Connector
+          in conjunction with the ACE_DEV_* classes.  Thanks to Karlheinz
+          for clarifying what had to occur.
+    
+Fri Sep 13 00:16:32 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Changed the order of #includes so that <assert.h>
+          comes before <sys/stat.h>.  This fixes some bugs with the
+          Siemens SVR4 C++.  Thanks to Antonio Tortorici
+          <antonio@rh0011.roma.tlsoft.it> for this fix
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (handle_timed_complete): Added yet another weird
+          hack to deal with the insanity that is TLI...
+
+        * ace/Synch.cpp: Replaced all uses of ACE_Thread_Mutex_Guard with
+          ACE_GUARD macros in order to avoid problems when mutexes fail.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Changed the definition of the ACE_*GUARD macros so
+          that they are always enabled, even when we turn off ACE_MT_SAFE.
+          This avoids a nasty semantic problem for components that use
+          ACE_Process_Mutex.  Thanks to Avraham Nash
+          <Avraham_Nash@praxisint.com> for reporting this problem.
+
+        * ace/OS: Removed ACE_OS::fork_exec() since its functionality has
+          been subsumed by ACE_Process.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Added a new thread_descriptor_i() method
+          that *doesn't* grab the lock in order to avoid deadlocks.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++.GNU (CXX): had to add
+          the -pta option so that we achieve template closure in ACE.
+
+        * include/makeinclude: Added -lthread to the
+          platform_sunos5_sunc++.GNU file.  I don't know how this slipped
+          through the cracks!
+
+        * ace/{DEV_IO,FILE_IO,SOCK_IO,SPIPE_Stream}: Fixed a braino with
+          alloca where I was failing to multiply by sizeof (iovec).  Isn't
+          C great? ...  Thanks to Chuck Gehr <gehr@sweng.stortek.com> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/SOCK_Dgram_Mcast.cpp: Added two changes to the ACE multicast
+          code in order to get it to work on Win32.  The first change is
+          to put the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP setsockopt() call *after* the
+          bind() (in shared_open()).  The second is to convert the
+          ACE_INET_Addr::get_ip_address() from host byte order into
+          network byte order.  Thanks to Todd L. Montgomery
+          <tmont@cerc.wvu.edu> and Steve Weismuller
+          <spweismu@rsoc.rockwell.com> for helping with this.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_barrier2.cpp: Incorporated Karlheinz's
+          new ACE_Barrier test program.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h: Added Karlheinz's ACE_Null_Barrier class.
+
+Fri Sep 13 00:30:50 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * tests/{Tokens_Test,Time_Service_Test}.cpp: Updated tests to use
+          ACE_Process instead of ACE_OS::fork_exec.
+
+        * ace/Process.cpp: Added a new ACE_Process abstraction that is a
+          Portable encapsulation for creating new processes.  It allows
+          assignment of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR of the new process.  On
+          UNIX, ACE_Process uses fork and exec.  On Win32, it uses
+          CreateProcess.  Since we can set the standard handles, we can
+          mimic UNIX pipes on Win32 by building chains of processes.  This
+          class should be used instead ACE_OS::fork_exec.
+
+        * examples/OS/Process/process.cpp (main): Added new example
+          application to show how to use ACE_Process.
+
+Thu Sep 12 00:55:25 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/DEV_IO: Added methods get_local_addr() and get_remote_addr()
+          so that ACE_Connector will work correctly.  Thanks to Brad Flood
+          <BFLOOD@tcs.lmco.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (thr_self): Added a fix to solve the
+          problem that Win32 GetCurrentThread() returns a pseudo-handle
+          rather than a real handle.  Now, we just look things up using
+          the thread id rather than the thread handle.  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli" <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for clarifying this.
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp (initiate): Fixed an incorrect set of return
+          values -- they were reversed.  Thanks to Brad Flood
+          <BFLOOD@tcs.lmco.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_cmp): Added a check for
+          !defined(ACE_HAS_SETKIND_NP) to avoid a problem with OSF/1.
+          Thanks to Martin Schoeckle <schoeckle@ike.uni-stuttgart.de> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/DEV_SAP: Updated these examples to use the new
+          ACE_TTY_IO classes.
+
+        * ace: Moved the TTY_IO code from the
+          examples/IPC_SAP/DEV_SAP/{reader,writer} directories into the
+          files TTY_IO.{h,cpp} in the main part of ACE and integrated Brad
+          Flood's <BFLOOD@tcs.lmco.com> changes for Win32.
+
+        * ace/DEV_IO.i: Changed the mapping of send_n() and recv_n()
+          methods to use write_n() and read_n() respectively so they will
+          work on NT.  Thanks to Brad Flood <BFLOOD@tcs.lmco.com> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.h: Implemented a non-synchronized version of
+          the lookup function for the <hthread_descriptor>.  This version
+          assumes that the lock is help.  We need this to avoid
+          intra-class method deadlock on systems (such as Solaris) that
+          lack recursive mutexes.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (ACE_Log_Msg): made sure to initialize
+          ACE_Log_Msg::thr_handle_ to 0.  I'm not sure how this got
+          changed...  Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/test_reactorEx.cpp
+          (register_thread_exit_hook): Changed hthread_t to ACE_hthread_t.
+          Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway/Channel.h: Due to inconsistencies between
+          the semantics of sockets and TLI with respect to establishing
+          non-blocking connections it's not a good idea to use TLI in
+          conjunction with select().  Therefore, I've #if 0'd out the use
+          of TLI in the Gateway application.
+
+Wed Sep 11 00:25:38 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (handle_timed_complete): Fixed a typo that was
+          failing to set n = ACE::recv(...).  In addition, rethought how
+          we figure out if a connection completes for the nth time...
+
+        * ace/TLI.cpp (open): Modified the implementation of open() so
+          that if oflag == 0 it is given an initial value of O_RDWR.
+          Otherwise we'll get a "badflags" t_errno.
+
+        * ace/Connector.h (connect): Modified connect() so that the
+          default value of the flags parameter is O_RDWR.  This is
+          necessary to make TLI_Connector::connect() work correctly by
+          default.
+
+        * examples/Logger: Updated the example logger client and server to
+          illustrate more clearly how things like the Singleton Reactor
+          and the ACE_Reactor timer mechanism work.  Thanks to Joe
+          DeAngelis <bytor@faxint.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Pipe: Added a new constructor that makes it possible to
+          initialize the <ACE_Pipe> from the <read> and <write> handles.
+          Thanks to Stevan Warwick (sjw@aesthetic.com) for suggesting
+          this.
+
+        * config-irix5.3-sgic++.h: Added #define for ACE_NEEDS_SYSTIME_H.
+          Thanks to Stevan Warwick (sjw@aesthetic.com) for reporting this.
+
+        * examples/Logger/server/Client_Acceptor: Fixed some stray
+          mis-uses of int that should have been ACE_HANDLE.  Thanks to
+          Luca Priorelli" <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/{ACE,Log_Msg}.cpp: Added fixes for hexdump().  Thanks to
+          Luca Priorelli" <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for supplying these.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (ACE_Reactor): Fixed a typo: "this->max_handlep1
+          ()" should be "this->handler_rep_.max_handlep1 ()".  Thanks to
+          Scott Shupe <shupes@mitre.org> for reporting this.
+
+        * apps/Orbix-Examples/Event_Comm: Added a bunch of changes to make
+          this application compile with Orbix 2.0.  Thanks to Mike
+          O'Malley <momalley@caesun16.msd.ray.com> for the fixes.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Added yet another fix for the IRIX 6.2
+          pthreads implementation.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-irix6.2-sgic++.h: Changed ACE_HAS_IRIX53_GETTIMEOFDAY
+          to ACE_HAS_IRIX_GETTIMEOFDAY because this also seems to be the
+          case for IRIX 6.2...  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/TLI_{Connector,Acceptor}.cpp: Added tests against NULL
+          pointers to avoid segmentation faults when the TLI
+          implementation doesn't allocate memory for the udata and opt
+          fields of netbuf structures.
+
+        * ace/Mem_Map.i (ACE_Mem_Map): Added an accessor so that callers
+          can get the name of the filename that is being used as the
+          backing store.  Thanks to the James Mansion
+          <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for recommending this.
+
+Tue Sep 10 00:26:52 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Modified the thr_create()
+          implementation for Win32 so that if the caller doesn't care
+          about this value we can avoid a HANDLE leak.  Thanks to the
+          James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for recommending this.
+
+        * ace/Thread.cpp (ACE_Thread): Moved both definitions of spawn_n()
+          into the Thread.cpp since they have loops and don't benefit from
+          being inlined.  
+
+        * ace/Svc_Handler.h: Moved operator delete() into the public part
+          of the class in order to make various compilers happy...
+
+        * ace/OS.i (ACE_OS): Fixed the #define that selects the (union
+          wait *) alternative of wait().  This original was protected by
+          ACE_LACKS_POSIX_PROTO, but it should be ACE_HAS_UNION_WAIT.
+
+        * performance-tests: Created a new directory that will contain all
+          of the ACE performance tests.  Move the Synch-Benchmarks and the
+          TTCP tests from ./apps into here, and also moved the
+          test_mutex.cpp and test_singleton.cpp files from
+          ./examples/{Threads,Misc}, respectively.  Thanks to Tim Harrison
+          for this suggestion.
+  
+        * ace/OS.i (ACE_OS): in WIN32 closesocket() returns 0 if call is
+          OK, so I changed the return value to be the other way around.
+          Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace: Changed the ACE_NO_POSIX_PROTO #define to something more
+          meaningful: ACE_LACKS_POSIX_PROTO.  Thanks to Jonathan Biggar
+          <jon@sems.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/config-sunos4-g++.h: Added the #define ACE_NEEDS_SYSTIME_H.
+          Thanks to Alexandre Karev <akg@na47sun05.cern.ch> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Fixed a bunch of pthreads portability problems that
+          showed up on OSF/1 4.0.  Also added support for asctime_r() and
+          ctime_r() for OSF/1 4.0.  Thanks to Dave Trumble
+          <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> for reporting these fixes.
+
+        * ace/Synch_T.cpp (ACE_TSS_Read_Guard): Removed a stray "new" that
+          was causing problems for the ACE_NEW macro.  Thanks to Dave
+          Trumble <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Local_Tokens.h: Fixed a broken use of "friend", which was
+          missing the keyword "class."  Thanks to Dave Trumble
+          <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/config-osf1-4.0.h: Included Dave Trumble's
+          <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> config file for OSF/1 4.0.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_osf1_4.0.GNU: Included Dave
+          Trumble's <trumble@steosf.nio.dec.com> platform macros file for
+          OSF/1 4.0.  Also renamed platform_osf1.GNU to
+          platform_osf1_3.2.GNU to deal with the new version.
+
+        * ace/Proactor: There wasn't a way to destroy an
+          ACE_Overlapped_File object without closing the ACE_HANDLE
+          attached to it.  Therefore, I added a flag that keeps track of
+          whether we have to delete this or not.  Thanks to Amos Shapira
+          <amos_shapira@mail.icomverse.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_future[12].cpp: Updated the tests to use
+          the new call() semantics in order to shut down the Scheduler's
+          event loop gracefully.
+
+        * ace/Method_Object.cpp: Added a return value to the call()
+          routine.  This can be used to indicate to the caller that it is
+          necessary to shut down the event loop.
+
+Mon Sep  9 02:07:08 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp (ACE_Service_Config): #ifdef's out the
+          registration of signal handling to control reconfiguration on
+          Win32 since it doesn't really handle signals very well.  Thanks
+          to John Morey <jmorey@tbi.com> for bringing this to my
+          attention.
+
+        * ace/CORBA_Handler: Replaced CORBA_[123] with ACE_CORBA_[123].
+
+        * examples/CORBA: Updated the test programs to work portably
+          across different versions of Orbix.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new wrapper for the getcwd() call.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_recursive_mutex.cpp: Added the use of
+          ACE_Guard<> to illustrate how these work with the
+          ACE_Recursive_Thread_Mutex.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for motivating me to do this.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_process_{mutex,semaphore}: Added two new
+          tests to illustrate how the ACE_Process_Mutex and
+          ACE_Process_Semaphore work, respectively.
+
+        * ace/Synch: Replaced the implementation of ACE_Process_Semaphore
+          to use SV_Semaphore_Complex on UNIX platforms in order to get
+          the same semantics for Win32 and for UNIX.  Thanks to the James
+          Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for recommending this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added some parens around the ACE BIT* macros so that
+          the precedence levels would be dealt with correctly and we don't
+          get any nasty surprises...
+
+        * ace/{Synch_T,Synch}: Modified the implementation of all the
+          *acquire()/release() methods so they keep track of whether they
+          own the mutex.  Thus, if a code path needs to give up the mutex
+          within the lifetime of the mutex, and it calls mutex_.release(),
+          then the destructor will not call it again.  Thanks to the James
+          Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for recommending this.
+
+        * ace/{Synch_T,Synch}: Changed the name of the field result_ to
+          owner_ for the ACE_Thread_Muetx_Guard and ACE_Guard.  This is
+          more representative of the true purpose of this field.
+
+        * ace/Synch: Updated ACE_Thread_Mutex_Guard so that it has the
+          same interface and semantics of ACE_Guard.  Thanks to the
+          ever-vigilant James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for
+          noticing this.
+
+        * examples/Log_Msg/test_log_msg.cpp (main): Added a test of the
+          new ACE_Log_Msg::priority_mask() functionality.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp: Added a new method called priority_mask(),
+          which updates the new thread-specific priority_mask_ data member
+          with the new mask and returns the old mask.  This is useful for
+          applications written using ACE_Log_Msg.  Often, these have log()
+          calls with low priority such as LM_DEBUG that don't need to be
+          printed, but for which the logging code should not be removed.
+          The priority_mask() scheme makes it possible to selective enable
+          printing of certain priorities.  Thanks to Rochi Febo Dommarco
+          <rocky@alter.it> for suggesting this.
+
+        * netsvcs/clients/Logger/indirect_logging.cpp (main): Modified the
+          test program so that it randomly selects logging priorities that
+          are powers of two.
+
+        * ace/Log_Priority.h: Renumbered the LM_* logging flags so that
+          they are all powers of two.  This makes it easy to implement a
+          scheme for selectively printing only certain logging values.
+
+Sun Sep  8 10:46:40 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Proactor.cpp: Fixed up the error handling in ACE_Proactor so
+          that it returns an error both in case of "bad errors," as well
+          as when ACE_WIN32 isn't defined.  Thanks to Amos Shapira
+          <amos_shapira@mail.icomverse.com> for reporting this.
+
+Sun Sep  8 14:11:08 1996  Tim H. Harrison  <harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Proactor/README: Updated the test_proactor.cpp
+          and README files to clarify the relationship between the
+          Proactor and ReactorEx.  This example uses the Proactor as the
+          main event loop (not the Reactor or ReactorEx).  Thus, this
+          application can only do overlapped I/O and timers
+          asynchronously.  To be able to react to other Win32 events, see
+          the ACE_ReactorEx and the examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/ test.
+          Thanks to Amos Shapira <amos_shapira@mail.icomverse.com> for
+          pointing out the ambiguity.
+
+Sat Sep  7 14:09:21 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Task.cpp: Enhanced the activate() method so that the caller
+          can set the priority and the thread group id.  Thanks to
+          Karlheinz for this suggestion.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added default values of 0 for the trailing arguments
+          for the {mutex,sema,cond}_init() methods.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_mutex.cpp: Added a new test program that
+          illustrates the difference between implementations of thread
+          mutex wrappers that use inheritance and dynamic binding vs. the
+          ACE approach (which doesn't use inheritance and dynamic
+          binding).  The results I got on my SPARCstation 20 model 712 is
+          included in the source file.  Thanks to James Mansion
+          <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for motivating me to write this.
+
+        * examples/Misc/test_singleton.cpp: Added a new test program that
+          illustrates the performance of using the Double-Checked Locking
+          pattern compared with the standard "Mutex::acquire()/release()"
+          approach.  Thanks to Jim Coplien <cope@research.bell-labs.com>
+          for encouraging me to get these performance numbers.
+
+Tue Sep  3 00:38:47 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/XtReactor: Added minor fixes to XtReactor to fix complaints
+          about "bool" not being defined and the destructor
+          ~ACE_XtReactor() has already having a body.  Thanks to Andres
+          Kruse <Andres.Kruse@cern.ch> for these fixes.
+
+        * ace/Mem_Map.cpp: Make sure that this->length_ is initialized to
+          0 in ACE_Mem_Map::map ().  Thanks to James Mansion
+          <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for pointing this out.
+
+        * ace/Thread.i (spawn_n): In ACE_Thread::spawn_n the sense of the
+          following check is wrong: 
+
+          for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+          // Bail out if error occurs.
+            if (ACE_OS::thr_create (func, arg, flags, &t_id, 0, priority,
+                                    stack == 0 ? 0 : stack[i],
+                                    stack_size == 0 ? 0 : stack_size[i]) != 0)
+              thread_ids[i] = t_id;
+            else
+              break;
+
+          The '!=' should be '=='.  Thanks to James Mansion
+          <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> for pointing this out.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/rules.local.GNU (MAKEFILE): Changed the
+          $WRAPPER_ROOT/include/makeinclude/rules.local.GNU line that
+          says:
+
+          sed -e "s:$(WRAPPER_ROOT);$$(WRAPPER_ROOT);g" \
+
+          so that the double dollar is now "\$$" (prefixed the first
+          dollar sign with a backslash). If not, my shell will try to
+          execute WRAPPER_ROOT for some reason. With "\$$" it works as it
+          should.  Thanks to Marius Kjeldahl <marius@funcom.no> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * Released version 4.0.29 for testing.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_getspecific): Added a new case for OSF/1.  Thanks
+          to Martin Schoeckle <schoeckle@ike.uni-stuttgart.de> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (spawn_i): Removed an invalid
+          initialization of ACE_hthread_t = 0, which doesn't work on all
+          pthreads platforms because pthreads uses a struct in some
+          implementations.  Thanks to Martin Schoeckle
+          <schoeckle@ike.uni-stuttgart.de> for reporting this.
+
+        * man: Updated all the nroff and html documentation to conform to
+          the latest version of ACE.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/{Name_Handler,TS_Server_Handler}.cpp: Fixed
+          some mistakes in the ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_SPECIALIZATION
+          code so that all the services can be linked together without
+          multiply defined symbols.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Name_Handler.cpp: Fixed a spot where we weren't
+          passing in an lvalue to send_request().  Why this wasn't showing
+          up earlier I don't know, but GCC caught it!
+
+Mon Sep  2 00:47:00 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp: Updated all comparisons of ACE_thread_t
+          and ACE_hthread_t so that they use the ACE_OS::thr_equal() and
+          ACE_OS::thr_cmp() methods, respectively.  Thanks very much to
+          Martin Schoeckle <schoeckle@ike.uni-stuttgart.de> for identify
+          the need for this.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new method called thr_cmp() which compares two
+          ACE_hthread_t values for equality.  Unfortunately, we can't just
+          compare these directly via == because on some platforms they are
+          implemented as structs.  Right now, I'm assuming that if
+          ACE_HAS_TID_T is enabled that we can compare tid_t's using ==.
+          If this turns out to be incorrect (e.g., if tid_t's are also
+          implemented as structs, please let me know).
+
+        * ace/Future: Changed the overloaded result() method to a pair of
+          get()/set() methods.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: Fixed a bug in the reset() routine.  This
+          was originally deleting the global static ace_file_stream.
+          However, this was causing segmentation faults if destructors for
+          objects local to main() were trying to write to the output file.
+          Therefore, instead of deleting the ostream, we simply flush()
+          it!
+
+          In addition, also renamed the various functions in test_config.h
+          to make sure they don't conflict with any other names by
+          prefixing them with ace_test_...
+
+        * ace: Added many small fixes for IRIX 6.2.  Thanks to Gonzalo
+          Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting all of these!
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a wrapper for the UNIX syscon() system call.
+
+        * ace/LSOCK.cpp (recv_handle): Rearranged the casts so that things
+          work correctly on platforms with odd definitions ot struct
+          iovec.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Task.cpp (ACE_Task_Exit): Rearranged the order in which we
+          shut down a Task via the Task_Exit hook so that we first
+          decrement the count of the threads in the task and *then* call
+          its close() hook.  This guards against cases where the close()
+          hook does something crazy like "delete this".
+
+        * ace/XtReactor.h: Changed #include "X11/Intrinsic.h" to #include
+          <X11/Intrinsic.h>.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Future.cpp (ACE_Future): Added some strategic "consts" to
+          the assignment operator and copy constructor for ACE_Future and
+          ACE_Future_Rep.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_task_three.cpp (main): Revised the test so
+          that it will shut itself down automatically when all the threads
+          have finished.
+
+        * examples/Threads/test_task_two.cpp (main): Revised this test so
+          that it doesn't run forever, but only runs either 1000 times or
+          as many times as the user specifies on the command line.  Thanks
+          to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Added an extra #else for thr_sigsetmask(),
+          thr_min_stack(), and thr_kill() for weirdo platforms that don't
+          conform to the other threading APIs...
+
+Sun Sep  1 20:15:28 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * examples/ASX/Message_Queue: Changed the use of read(0, ...) and
+          write(1, ...) to ACE_OS::read(ACE_STDIN, ...)  and
+          ACE_OS::write(ACE_STDOUT, ...) in buffer_stream.cpp and
+          bounded_buffer.cpp.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Fixed the errno mapping of the cond_timedwait()
+          functions so that they set errno to ETIME rather than EBUSY when
+          timeouts occur.  This is necessary to support Solaris and POSIX
+          pthreads semantics on Win32.
+
+        * build/SunOS5.5/examples/ASX/Message_Queue/buffer_stream.cpp:
+          Modified the example somewhat so that it uses the Singleton
+          thr_mgr() method from ACE_Service_Config.
+
+Sun Sep  1 17:29:58 1996  Tim H. Harrison  (harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (map_errno): Added a new static method to the ACE
+          class.  This method allows us to map troublesome win32 errno
+          values (e.g. WSAEWOULDBLOCK) to values that standard C strerr
+          function understands.  Thank you Microsoft. 
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (log): Added a call to ACE::map_errno to the %p
+          option.  Now the ACE logger can begin to map Win32 error values
+          into meaningful strings.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/lib.mdp: Added a project file for the netsvcs
+          library.  This builds a dll into ace/netsvcs.dll (not into the
+          netsvcs/lib directory).  This reduces the number of paths needed
+          in %PATH%.
+
+        * examples/Tokens: Renamed this directory netsvsc/clients/Tokens.
+
+        * ace/ace.mdp: Removed wsock32.lib from the ace files listing.
+          The problem is that we can't assume where MSDEV is installed.  I
+          added wsock32.lib and advapi32.lib to the
+          build/settings/link/library_modules line.
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Disabled the "C4355: 'this' : used
+          in base member initializer list" warning.  Thanks to Amos
+          Shapira for figuring this out for us.  Although "this" is
+          unneeded for win32, it is required for compilers on other
+          platforms (e.g., AIX).
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.cpp (dequeue_head_i): Andres Kruse pointed out
+          that we weren't doing head_->prev (0), when dequeuing!
+
+Tue Aug 27 21:00:25 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_sunos5_sunc++_4.1.GNU (CXX): Added
+          Andres Kruse's changes for SunC+ 4.1.
+
+        * ace: Fixed line # 12 of ace/config-sunos4-sun4.1.4.h, 
+          which read:
+
+          "#define ACE_HAS_SVSV_IPC"  (ACE_HAS_ ess vee ess vee _IPC)
+
+          to
+
+          "#define ACE_HAS_SYSV_IPC"  (ACE_HAS_ ess wye ess vee _IPC)
+
+          Fix another problem:
+
+          #define ACE_LACKS_THREAD_STACK_ADDR     (OS.cpp)
+
+          was inconsistently defined in:
+
+          #define ACE_LACKS_THREAD_STACK_ADDRESS  (config-aix-4.1.x.h)
+
+          Thanks to Alan Stweart <Axs2@osi.com> for reporting
+          this!
+
+Mon Aug 26 00:34:05 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Updated all of ACE such that the ACE_GUARD* macros now all take
+          the name of the ACE_*Guard* that they will use as the scoped
+          locking object.  This is important for several reasons:
+          
+          1. It make it more clear what is going on in the code, rather
+             than hiding behind the macros!
+
+          2. It is now possible to have multiple ACE_GUARD* macros in the
+             same scope by calling each scoped locking object a different
+             name.  This is used in the Local_Tokens.cpp file.
+
+        * ace/Synch.h (ACE_Null_Mutex_Guard): Added the locked() method so
+          that this signature will conform to the one expected of
+          ACE_Guard.
+
+        * tests: Added a new file Test_Future.cpp, which tests the new ACE
+          Futures mechanism using Active Obejcts.  Thanks to Andres Kruse
+          <kruse@cern.ch> for contributing this test.
+
+        * ace: Added three new files: Future.{h,cpp},
+          Method_Object.{h,cpp}, and Activation_Queue.{h,cpp}, which
+          implement Polymorphic Futures.  Thanks to Andres Kruse
+          <kruse@cern.ch> for contributing these.
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp (dump): Replaced LM_INFO with LM_DEBUG.
+
+Sun Aug 25 21:57:57 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace: Rather than using operator new directly, most of ACE now
+          uses the ACE_NEW and ACE_NEW_RETURN macros.  For instance,
+          rather than writing:
+
+          if (token_manager_ == 0)
+            token_manager_ = new ACE_Token_Manager;
+
+          we should write:
+
+          if (token_manager_ == 0)
+            ACE_NEW_RETURN (token_manager_, ACE_Token_Manager, 0);
+
+          The reason for this is that it makes it much easier to ensure
+          that all dynamic memory allocation errors are treated uniformly.
+          I've updated the entire ACE library code tonight to make this
+          usage consistent whenever possible.
+
+Sat Aug 24 11:51:38 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.h: Simplified various things so that the nasty
+          macros necessary to build DLLs on Win32 will be simplier.  In
+          addition, I will only #include <sys/time.h> for those platforms
+          that don't already do this in <time.h> (i.e., if
+          ACE_NEEDS_SYSTIME_H is defined in config.h).  Please let me know
+          if you run across any platforms like this.
+
+        * ace/TLI_{Connector,Acceptor}: Added two additional parameters at
+          the end of the connect() and accept() methods, respectively, so
+          that the ACE TLI wrappers can be used with X.25.  Thanks to Ajit
+          Sagar <asagar@spdmail.spd.dsccc.com> for suggesting this fix.
+
+        * ace: Integrated Eric Newton's XtReactor into the Makefile.  If
+          you want to include this into ACE, make sure to define
+          ACE_HAS_XT in the config.h file.
+
+        * examples/Misc: Integrated the XtReactor tests.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (getservbyname,gethostby*): Fixed a suble omission --
+          any calls to socket function should be wrapped by the
+          ACE_SOCKCALL_RETURN macro in order to make the errnos work
+          correctly on Win32.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added support for the getprotoby{name,number} wrappers.
+          Thanks to Joe DeAngelis <bytor@faxint.com> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/Connector.cpp: Fixed a subtle bug in the ACE_Connector.
+          The problem centered around the following line in
+          cleanup_AST():
+
+          if (this->handler_map_.find (handle, ast) == -1)
+
+          This lookup always failed because the key, the handle of the
+          service handler, was always -1.  The service handler's handle is
+          not set until a successful connection is made and connector
+          transfers ownership of the handle to the service handler.  The
+          fix for this is to store the ACE_HANDLE in the ACE_Svc_Tuple
+          *separately* from the ACE_Svc_Handler.  Thanks to Bill Gerecke
+          <gerecke@rayva.org> for being so persistent in tracking this
+          down.
+
+        * ace/ARGV.cpp (ACE_ARGV): Added a nifty new constructor that
+          converts argv-style vectors of strings into a single string
+          (this is the reverse of what the original constructor does!).
+
+        * ace/ACE: Added a new utility method called strecpy(), which
+          copies <t> to <s>, returning a pointer to the end of the copied
+          region (rather than the beginning, a la <strcpy>.
+
+Thu Aug 22 15:43:58 1996    <harrison@samba.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Changed the interface of ACE_OS::fork_exec (char
+          *const argv[]).  (There is no longer a separate const char *path
+          parameter.  Now, argv[0] must be the full path name to the
+          executable.
+
+        * tests/Time_Service_Test.cpp:  Updated the Time Service
+          one-button test to use the new ACE_OS::fork_exec.  I didn't
+          event break it.
+
+        * tests/Tokens_Test.cpp:  Updated the Tokens one-button test to
+          use the new ACE_OS::fork_exec.  It actually works now.
+
+        * tests/test_config.h: Added some more #defines to help simplify
+          path differences between NT and UNIX.  Perhaps these should be
+          moved into OS.h?
+
+Thu Aug 22 13:46:58 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (ACE_Thread_Control): The status_ member
+          in ACE_Thread_Control() was not being initialized!  This caused
+          Purify to complain loudly about invalid memory accesses. I have
+          added an initialiser to ACE_Thread_Control::ACE_Thread_Control
+          to set status_ to 0.  Thanks to Ross Dargahi <rossd@krinfo.com>
+          for reporting this.
+
+        * ChangeLog: The ACE configuration files "config-irix*.h" defined
+          'ACE_HAS_SIGINFO' to indicate that IRIX supports SVR4 extended
+          signals.  This should be 'ACE_HAS_SIGINFO_T' instead.  Thanks to
+          Craig Johnston <johnston@tortilla.ds.boeing.com> for reporting
+          this.
+
+Wed Aug 21 21:09:01 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.h: Added an extra condition, #if defined
+          (ACE_BUILD_DLL) so that ACE_Svc_Export evaluates to
+          something. Previously, it was evaluating to nothing in some
+          files such as Naming_Context.cpp where we were doing #define
+          ACE_BUILD_DLL and not #define ACE_BUILD_SVC_DLL.
+
+Wed Aug 21 00:33:17 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (format_hexdump): Fixed a minor bug in
+          format_hexdump().  If the buffer to dump is a multiple of 16 it
+          prints an extra blank line.  ALso fixed the code to use spaces
+          rather than tabs and put an extra space between the first 8 HEX
+          bytes and the second.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli
+          <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for this code.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.h (ACE_HEX_DUMP): Added a new logging macro:
+        
+          #define ACE_HEX_DUMP(X) \
+            do { int __ace_error = errno; \
+              ACE_Log_Msg *ace___ = ACE_Log_Msg::instance (); \
+              ace___->set (__FILE__, __LINE__, 0, errno, ace___->restart (),
+              ace___->msg_ostream ()); \ ace___->log_hexdump X; \
+            } while (0)
+
+          which makes it possible to dump info in HEX.  Thanks to Luca
+          Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/config-win32-msvc4.0.h: Added 
+        
+          #define _WINSOCKAPI_
+
+          To avoid multiple inclusions.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli
+          <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: enclosed the #define of WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN macro
+          definition between #ifndef ... #endif to avoid compiler
+          warnings.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for
+          suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/SOCK.cpp (win32_fini): Fixed a potential problem in ACE
+          where any code of the form:
+
+          ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "%d", GetLastError()));
+
+          will reset errno a couple of times before GetLastError() gets
+          called. So the result is always 0.  The fix is to say:
+
+          int ret = GetLastError();
+          ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "%d", ret));
+
+          Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for noticing
+          this.
+
+        * ace/Connector.cpp (create_AST): Was missing a return 0; if we
+          successfully register a cancellation id.  Thanks to William
+          L. Gerecke <gerecke@rayva.org> for reporting this bug.
+
+        * ace/Module.h: Added a non-existent friend class to get ACE 
+          to stop complaining
+          
+          private:
+            friend class ACE_Shutup_GPlusPlus;  // Turn off g++ warning
+            ~ACE_Module (void);         
+            // *Must* use dynamic allocation.
+
+          Thanks to Eric Newton for the suggestion.
+
+        * ace/Svc_Conf.y (ace_create_service_type): Removed some stray
+          calls to ACE_ERROR that were left over from earlier
+          configurations of ACE.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (instance): Fixed the #ifdefs so that
+          ACE_MT_SAFE implies ACE_HAS_THREAD_SPECIFIC_STORAGE.  Thanks to
+          Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting the need for
+          this.
+
+Tue Aug 20 13:09:55 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * INET_Addr.cpp, line 84: Irix's C++ is not able to determine
+          whether to use the set(u_short,ACE_UINT32,int) or the
+          set(u_short,const char [],int), since on Irix, INADDR_ANY is 0.
+          I cast the value so that the call would read set(port,
+          ACE_UINT32(INADDR_ANY)) and everything went fine.  Thanks to
+          Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/Synch[_T]: Added a new wait() method that takes a first
+          parameter which is the mutex used to serialize access to the
+          condition.  This is useful if you want to store the
+          ACE_Condition object in shared memory (in which case, the use of
+          a reference to mutex_t doesn't work!).  Thanks to Mark Patton
+          <mark_patton@ftw.paging.mot.com> for recommending this approach.
+
+        * ace/Task.h: Added a forward template declaration for
+          ACE_Task_Exit so that it will compile on HP/UX.  Thanks to Tim
+          Ottinger <tottinge@csci.csc.com> for pointing this out.
+
+        * ace: changed line 19 of ace/Str_Buf.h from
+
+          #include "OS.h"
+
+          to:
+
+          #include "ace/OS.h"
+
+          Fixed similar problems with OS.h at line 1154 and Dump.h at line
+          150.  Thanks to Alan Stewart <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this.
+
+Tue Aug 20 20:18:49 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * tests/TSS_Test.cpp (main): Fixed a small typo. I was referencing
+          the wrong variable but didn't catch it since it was in the #if
+          !defined (ACE_HAS_THREADS) section. Fixed the typo and also 
+          renamed the variable called big_count to iterations.  Thanks to
+          Tim Ottinger <tottinge@csci.csc.com> for pointing this out.
+
+Mon Aug 19 19:25:50 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * {examples,apps,tests}: Removed the use of zerop from these
+          files, as well...
+
+        * ace/{Acceptor.cpp,Name_Proxy.cpp,Token.i}: Removed the use of
+          zerop from these files, as well...
+
+        * ace/Connector.cpp (connect_svc_handler): It looks like our good
+          friend ACE_Time_Value::zerop isn't getting initialized correctly
+          on Win32.  Therefore, I've replaced it with a direct use of
+          &ACE_Time_Value::zero.
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.cpp: Removed the static pointer variable "zerop"
+          since there was no guarantee it was getting intialized before it
+          is used!  Instead of using ACE_Time_Value::zerop, use
+          &ACE_Time_Value::zero.  Thanks to William L. Gerecke
+          <gerecke@rayva.org> for reporting this problem.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added zillions of changes to make ACE compile with OSF/1
+          and its DCE threads implementation.  Thanks to Martin Schoeckle
+          <schoeckle@ike.uni-stuttgart.de> for sending these.
+
+        * ace/config-osf1-3.2.h: Updated this file with fixes for OSF/1 by
+          Martin Schoeckle <schoeckle@ike.uni-stuttgart.de>.
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (handle_timed_complete): Added new logic to
+          ACE::handle_timed_complete() so that it sets errno to
+          ECONNREFUSED if the connection is refused by the server.  When
+          you issue an asynchronous connect request, to complete it, you
+          will use complete() with a timeout.  However, complete can fail,
+          and then it will deallocate any resource, (i.e. close down the
+          socket handle), also for timeout expiration.  So, a user
+          interested in retrying to complete a connection while the
+          timeout expires will not use complete(); but rather will use
+          handle_timed_complete().  In fact, using handle_timed_complete()
+          the user could detect the reason of a failure (by examining
+          errno) and decide how to proceed.  In the old ACE version the
+          problem was that, if handle_timed_complete() failed because of
+          the recv() returning 0, errno remained unchanged and so its
+          value could be quite misleading with respect to the reasons of
+          the failure.  Thanks to Antonio Tortorici
+          <antonio@rh0011.roma.tlsoft.it> for this fix and the explanation
+          above.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Added support for Borland 5.0's uint64.  Thanks to
+          Hani Yakan <hani@i-online.com> for suggesting the strategy to
+          accomplish this.
+
+Mon Aug 19 15:52:07 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * tests: Added new macros to the test_config.h file in order to
+          simplify the testing.
+
+Mon Aug 19 00:21:22 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Re-released version 4.0.28 for testing (will change the version
+          number after Tim gives me the new Token stuff).
+
+        * {netsvcs/lib,tests/test_config.h}: Removed spurious dependencies
+          on fstream.h and iostream.h.  Thanks to Alan Stewart
+          <axs2@osi.com> for reporting this.
+
+Sat Aug 17 17:25:49 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Reactor: Removed the use of "inline" in the Reactor.cpp
+          files because this was causing problems with some
+          compilers/linkers.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for recommending this.
+
+        * examples/Misc/test_XtReactor1.cpp: Added a new test of the
+          XtReactor, courtesy of Eric Newton <ecn@clark.net>.
+
+        * ace/config-hpux-10.x.h: According to Eugene K. Plaude
+          <jec@r-style.msk.su>, HP-UX 10.01 supports user-level threads
+          based on the pthreads interface specified by POSIX in 1003.4a,
+          Draft 4 (which is basically DCE threads).  Therefore, I've
+          enabled the ACE_HAS_DCETHREADS symbol in the config-hpux-10.x.h
+          configuration file.  If this isn't correct, please let me know.
+
+Sat Aug 17 02:18:39 1996  Tim H. Harrison  (harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * examples/Tokens/manual/README: Added a new Token example
+          application.  The manual test gives users a text-based
+          interactive interface to local or remote tokens.  This is
+          extremely useful for manually testing the token server and
+          setting up deadlock scenarios.  See the README file for more
+          details.
+
+        * examples/Tokens/deadlock/README: Updated the deadlock example
+          application to test the new deadlock detection algorithm for
+          readers/writer locks.  I also added the use of Token Invariants
+          to ensure correctness of the mutexes and readers/writer locks.
+          See the README file for more details.
+
+Fri Aug 16 22:16:05 1996  Tim H. Harrison  (harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Token_Manager.cpp: Updated all Token code to use
+          ACE_OS::last_error instead of errno.
+
+Fri Aug 16 00:03:24 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * After a long hiatus, released version 4.0.28 for testing.
+
+Thu Aug 15 21:04:35 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * man: Updated all the ACE manual pages and html pages to reflect
+          recent changes.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Server_Logging_Handler.cpp: Fixed an omitted
+          "ACE_BUILD_SVC_DLL" that was causing linker errors on NT.
+          Thanks to Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for reporting
+          this.
+
+        * examples/Log_Msg/test_log_msg.cpp: Added a test for the new
+          log_hexdump() function.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.cpp (log_hexdump): Integrated the log_hexdump() code
+          into the ACE Log_Msg abstraction.  Thanks to Luca Priorelli
+          <lucapri@mbox.vol.it> for fixing this and for Todd Montgomery
+          for originally supplying the code.
+
+        * ace/Signal.cpp (ACE_Sig_Handlers): Moved the #endif /* HPUX */
+          down to the end of the file so that it works correctly on HPUX.
+          Thanks to Eric C. Newton <ecn@clark.net> for report this bug.
+
+        * ace/OS.i: Updated the behavior of thr_join() so that it will do
+          a ::CloseHandle after getting the exit status.  Thanks to the
+          ever vigilant James Mansion
+          (mansionj@lonnds.ml.com) for noticing this.
+
+        * examples: Finally added Tim and Prashant's examles/OS directory,
+          which contains a test that illustrates a "portable" means to
+          spawn processes on NT and UNIX.
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp (next): Added an overloaded next() method that
+          returns the name that is bound to the pointer in the
+          Malloc_Iterator.  This is useful in order to differentiate
+          entries in the pool based on their name.  Thanks to Kim Gillies
+          <gillies@noao.edu> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace: Changed all uses of thread_t, thread_key_t, mutex_t,
+          rwlock_t, sema_t, cond_t, etc. to ACE_* in order to avoid
+          polluting the name space.  Also switched from using macros to
+          using typedefs whereever possible.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm
+          <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for recommending this.
+
+        * ace/System_Time.cpp: Added template specializations for
+          templates used in the ACE_System_Time class.  This should solve
+          some nasty undefined templates problems with GCC...  Thanks to
+          Joseph DeAngelis <bytor@faxint.com> for pointing out the
+          problem.
+
+        * ace/Name_Space.cpp: Fixed the file Name_Space.cpp as follows:
+
+          // Name_Space.cpp
+          #define ACE_BUILD_DLL
+          //#include "Name_Space.h"
+          #include "ace/Name_Space.h"     
+
+          Thanks to Eugene K. Plaude <jec@r-style.msk.su> for fixing this!
+
+        * ace/config-hpux-10.x.h: Added support for TLI since according to
+          Eugene K. Plaude <jec@r-style.msk.su> this should work.  If not,
+          please let me know.
+
+Wed Aug 14 21:29:46 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Logger: rearranged the Logger directory so it
+          would be more clear what the client and server programs did and
+          how to run them.
+
+        * examples: Merged the contents of the SVR4 examples directory
+          into the IPC_SAP/SOCK_SAP directory so that we can remove the
+          SVR4 directory altogether (it wasn't contributing much...).
+
+        * examples: Removed the vestigal Win32 tests since ACE now runs on
+          Win32 and we don't need a separate test directory.
+
+        * netsvcs/client: Renamed the file remaining file in this
+          directory to logging_app.cpp since I moved the other file to the
+          examples/Reactor/Logger directory.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (check_handles): If eh->get_handle() returns -1
+          the select() code will index the [-1] element of an array.  To
+          fix this, I've added a check of the value returned from
+          eh->get_handle().  Thanks to Eric C. Newton <ecn@clark.net> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (sema_wait): Fixed a subtle bug in the Pthreads
+          wrappers that surfaced on the SGI IRIX 6.2 port.  There was some
+          code that looked like this:
+
+          pthread_cleanup_push();
+          int result = 0;
+          ...
+          pthread_cleanup_pop();
+          return result;
+ 
+          However, on Irix 6.2, the push introduces a new scope that is
+          closed by the pop, so result goes out of scope before returning.
+          Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for pointing this
+          out.
+
+        * ace/OS.h: Changed the definition of pthread_mutex_t and
+          pthread_cond_t to mutex_t and cond_t to be consistent with other
+          usage in ACE.  Thanks to Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> for
+          pointing this out.
+
+Wed Aug 14 01:25:47 1996    <harrison@samba.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * ace/SPIPE_Acceptor.cpp: Added the PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE |
+          PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE flags to CreateNamedPipe pipe options so
+          that data is received in messages rather than as a stream.  This
+          is consistent with the behavior of the SPIPE_Connector.  When we
+          have time, we need to extend the interface so that stream pipes
+          are also supported, as well.
+
+        * SPIPE_Acceptor.cpp: Made the ACE SPIPE in and out buffer sizes
+          10 k.  The previous size was just 512 bytes.  This larger buffer
+          size helps decrease flow control.
+
+Tue Aug 13 23:21:46 1996    <harrison@samba.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+        * examples/Connection/blocking: Updated the blocking SPIPE example
+          application to use a pool of threads in the proactor to handle
+          incoming client messages.  The SPIPE-acceptor example
+          illustrates how named pipes are used on NT. Once the server
+          establishes a connection to a single client, it spawns a thread
+          pool to handle incoming requests via the proactor event
+          loop. That is, a separate thread from the pool is used to
+          process each message sent by a client.  The size of the thread
+          pool can be specified by command-line arguments.  This example
+          leverages the queueing performed by the NT kernel to trivially
+          implement a thread pool architecture.  See
+          examples/Connection/blocking/README for more details.
+
+        * Service_Config.h: Added a <thread> parameter (with a default
+          size of 0) to the proactor accessor method.  This allows
+          applications to specify the size of the thread pool that can
+          block on Proactor::handle_events.
+
+Tue Aug 13 02:30:58 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Task: Added a new public interface called thr_count().  This
+          returns a count of the number of threads running within a Task.
+          If the value returned is 0, then the Task is a Passive Object.
+          If the value returns is > 0 the task is an Active Object, and
+          the value is a count of the number of threads running within the
+          object at this snapshot of time.
+
+        * ace/OS: I implemented Karlheinz's suggested optimizations for
+          the ACE condition variable implementation under Win32.  Here's
+          the deal...  The original implementation used an internal_mutex
+          to ensure that access to the count of the number of waiters was
+          serialized between the waiter and signaler threads.  The new
+          implementation is designed so that only the waiter threads
+          access the waiter count.  Therefore, we can utilize the
+          external_mutex to serialize access to this, thus eliminating the
+          need for the internal_mutex.  However, this means that code
+          *must* be written using the standard condition variable idiom,
+          i.e.,
+
+          int resources ()
+          {
+            external_mutex.acquire ();
+            
+            // ...
+
+            cond.signal ();
+            external_mutex.release ();
+          }
+
+          Rather than like this:
+
+          int resources ()
+          {
+            external_mutex.acquire ();
+            
+            // ...
+            
+            external_mutex.release ();
+            cond.signal ();
+          }
+
+          which is what some thread programming books recommend as an
+          optimization.  However, you should be careful not to use this
+          form since it can lead to "lost wakeup" bugs caused by the fact
+          that the implementation of ACE_OS::cond_signal will test if the
+          waiter count > 0 *without holding any locks*!!!
+
+          Fortunately, ensuring this shouldn't be a problem since most ACE
+          code uses the following idiom:
+          
+          int resources ()
+          {
+            ACE_Guard mon (external_mutex);
+            
+            // ...
+
+            cond.signal ();
+            // Destructor of mon releases external_mutex.
+          }
+          
+          Clearly, there are subtle tradeoffs between performance and
+          programmability here...
+
+        * ace/Synch: Updated all of the ACE semaphore wrappers to take the
+          new "max" value as their final constructor argument.
+
+        * ace/OS: Added a new default argument to the end of the
+          sema_init() method.  This allows us to specify the maximum value
+          of the semaphore (this is only important on NT).  Currently, it
+          is hard-coded to 0x7fffffff in uses.  The new approach makes it
+          possible to set the max to a different value.  Thanks to
+          Karlheinz for requesting this.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.cpp: Added an implementation of the dump().
+          Thanks Karlheinz.
+
+        * ace/Synch.cpp: Added an implementation of the dump() method.
+          Thanks Karlheinz.
+
+        * ace: Updated all usage of ACE_Thread_Mutex_Guard so that it now
+          uses the ACE_GUARD* macros correctly.  Thanks to Chris Eich
+          <Chris_Eich@optilink.optilink.dsccc.com> for pointing out the
+          need for this.
+
+        * examples/Threads: Added Karlheinz's new test_barrier2.cpp test
+          program that makes sure that the ACE_Message_Queues are working
+          correctly when accessed by multiple threads.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Server_Logging_Handler.cpp (handle_logging_record):
+          Fixed an errant use of ACE_Guard, which wasn't properly checking
+          of the Guard acquired the lock.  Thanks to Chris Eich
+          <Chris_Eich@optilink.optilink.dsccc.com> for pointing this out.
+
+        * ace/OS.h (ACE_GUARD): Added default "ace_mon" implementations of
+          type ACE_Null_Mutex even in cases where there's no threading
+          defined so that code accessing ace_mon.release() and
+          ace_mon.acquire() will compile correctly.
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway/Channel.h:  Fixed the code so
+          that we don't try to use TLI if the platform doesn't support it
+          (instead, we'll use sockets).  Thanks to Marius Kjeldahl
+          <marius@funcom.no> for reporting this problem.
+
+        * examples/ASX/Event_Server/{Supplier,Consumer}: Fixed the code so
+          that we don't try to use TLI if the platform doesn't support it
+          (instead, we'll use sockets).  Thanks to Marius Kjeldahl
+          <marius@funcom.no> for reporting this problem.
+
+Mon Aug 12 14:50:47 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * examples/Misc: Added Eric Newton's <ecn@clark.net> test case for
+          his XtReactor integration.
+
+        * ace: Included Eric Newton's <ecn@clark.net> code that integrates
+          ACE with the Xt event loop.  This still needs a bit of work
+          (e.g., making it thread-safe and incorporating signal support), so
+          I haven't added it to the Makefile yet.  If someone can take the
+          time to fix it up, I'll be happy to integrate it into ACE.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue.cpp (dequeue_head): Fixed the mother of all
+          bugs in the ACE_Message_Queue implementation...  The problem was
+          that I was trying to be too clever by optimizing the number of
+          Condition::signal() calls by only calling signal() when the
+          queue changed state from empty to non-empty (or full to
+          non-full).  It turns out that this optimization works fine for a
+          single producer/consumer case, but fails when there are multiple
+          consumers.  The fix was just to call signal() every time.  This
+          should be ok because the underlying Condition variable
+          implementation will perform the optimization in the correct
+          fashion.  Thanks to the omniscient Karlheinz for detecting this
+          problem and reporting it.
+
+Sun Aug 11 15:52:07 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * tests: Made minor changes to test_config.h, SPIPE_Test.cpp, and
+          UPIPE_SAP_Test.cpp to accomodate the change made to SPIPE_Addr.
+          SPIPE_Addr now accepts a string of the form [host:]port and then
+          creates the rendezvous point. Originally, SPIPE_Addr would
+          assume that the string being passed in was the actual rendezvous
+          point. 
+
+Sat Aug 10 18:41:21 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/Logger.cpp (init): Added a new service to netsvcs
+          called ACE_Logger which allows us to control the output of all
+          the services. The ACE_Logger service can be invoked with
+          different flags (such as STDERR|OSTREAM) which in turn sets
+          ACE_Log_Msg to direct the output of all the services to the
+          appropriate stream(s). Note that if a service needs to stay
+          unaffected from ACE_Logger, it should be invoked before
+          ACE_Logger gets invoked. Also note that like other services in
+          netsvcs, ACE_Logger can also be dynamically linked in.
+
+Sat Aug 10 14:23:07 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Added Steve Huston's <shuston@ultranet.com> patches to get ACE
+          to compile on UnixWare 2.01.  This mostly involved changes to
+          the internal types used by the socket wrappers.  Thanks Steve!
+
+Fri Aug  9 01:34:19 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * examples/ASX/UPIPE_Event_Server/Options.cpp (print_results):
+          Added a typedef to avoid problems if a platform doesn't support
+          prusage_t.  Thanks to Marius Kjeldahl <marius@funcom.com> for
+          reporting this.
+
+        * include/makeinclude/platform_linux_pthread.GNU.  The line that
+          say:
+
+          LIBS    = -lpthreads -lstdc++
+
+          was modified to say:
+
+          LIBS    += -lpthreads -lstdc++
+
+          Thanks to Marius Kjeldahl <marius@funcom.com> for reporting
+          this.
+
+Fri Aug  9 18:26:16 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space.cpp (reset): Fixed a subtle (yet very
+          annoying bug). In switching contexts a test program would hang
+          after a certain number of switches. Having gone through the code
+          thoroughly and with the aid of Purify, the bug was narrowed down
+          to an extraneous delete taking place in
+          ACE_Name_Space::reset(). Essentially, we do not need to delete
+          ACE_Name_Space_Map::instance() which is actually the
+          SHARED_MALLOC since it gets deleted in the destructor of
+          ACE_Local_Name_Space.
+
+Thu Aug  8 17:55:20 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/SPIPE_Addr.cpp (set): Implemented
+          ACE_SPIPE_Addr::string_to_addr(). Modified ACE_SPIPE_Addr::set()
+          using code provided by Brad Flood to create the rendezvous
+          point. Note that originally ACE_SPIPE_Addr constructor and set()
+          would take the actual rendezvous point but now they rely on
+          being passed a string which is of the format "[host]:port"
+          (where host is optional). The rendezvous point is then created
+          by extracting from the string the hostname (if any) and also
+          using the port number as the unique pipe name. Note that this
+          approach works on both UNIX and Win32.
+
+Mon Aug  5 20:15:59 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/OS.i (last_error): Fixed a typo. In the set and get methods
+          last_error(), there should be a check for "if defined
+          (ACE_WIN32)" and not "if defined (ACE_HAS_WIN32)"
+
+Wed Aug  7 00:21:42 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg.h: Replaced all uses of errno *following calls to
+          ACE_Log_Msg::instance()* so that we first cache errno in a local
+          variable called __ace_errno.  We need to do this because
+          ACE_Log_Msg::instance() can reset errno == 0.  Thanks to 
+          Tim for pointing this out.
+
+Mon Aug  5 20:15:59 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/OS.i (last_error): Fixed a typo. In the set and get methods
+          last_error(), there should be a check for 
+          "if defined (ACE_WIN32)" and not "if defined (ACE_HAS_WIN32)"
+
+Sat Aug  3 14:52:32 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * examples/Win32/win32_client.cpp: Changed ACE_GUARD_RETURN to
+          ACE_GUARD in the method Errno::flags since the return type is
+          void. 
+
+        * examples/Connection/non_blocking/CPP-connector.cpp: Made some
+          minor changes to get things compiling on Win32. The call to
+          handle_close now takes zero as the first argument (which is
+          never used). Also the arguments to ACE_SERVER_ADDRESS are now
+          swapped (hostname followed by port number) to be consistent with
+          the change made to the macro. Thanks to Brad Flood for
+          suggesting these changes. 
+
+        * examples/Connection/non_blocking/CPP-acceptor.cpp: Made minor
+          changes to some of the methods to make sure all control paths
+          return a value. Also changed the default port number to
+          ACE_DEFAULT_SERVER_PORT_STR to match what the connector tries to
+          connect to. Thanks to Brad Flood <BFLOOD@slc.unisysgsg.com> for
+          suggesting these changes.
+
+        * ace/OS.h (ACE_SERVER_ADDRESS): Modified the macro
+          ACE_SERVER_ADDRESS so that it creates a string of a server
+          address with a "host:port" format. Previously the order was
+          reversed. Thanks to Brad Flood for suggesting this change.
+
+Sat Aug  3 00:07:26 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace: Fixed problems with recursive tracing of ACE_TRACE by
+          commenting out certain constructors in IPC_SAP.cpp,
+          FIFO_Send_Msg.cpp, FIFO_Send.cpp, and FIFO.cpp.  Thanks to
+          Karlheinz for finding and reporting these fixes.
+
+Fri Aug  2 22:19:05 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/ACE.cpp (format_hexdump): Fixed an infamous "off by one" bug
+          that was causing this to fail on Win32 (time to switch to Java? ;-)).
+          Thanks to lucapri@mbox.vol.it for finding this.
+
+Thu Aug  1 14:08:30 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/CORBA_Handler.cpp (activate_service): Fixed a typo caused by
+          an omitted ENDTRY.  Thanks to Garrett Conaty
+          <gconaty@outbackinc.com> for noticing this.
+
+Mon Jul 29 10:03:16 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * examples/Win32/win32_client.cpp: There was a typo in one of the
+          ACE_GUARD macros.  Thanks to Tim Ottinger
+          <tottinge@csci.csc.com> for pointing this out.
+
+Mon Jul 22 12:41:22 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Local_Name_Space.cpp (reset): Added a new method
+          ACE_Name_Space_Map::reset() which deletes the instance of
+          ACE_Name_Space_Map. This forces instance() to create a new
+          instance using a new context file in the case of the context
+          having changed. I make use of this in
+          ACE_Local_Name_Space::create_manager().
+
+Fri Jul 19 12:28:07 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/System_Time.cpp (get_master_system_time): Modified
+          ACE_System_Time::get_master_system_time() so that if an entry
+          for the time is not found in shared memory (indicating that no
+          Clerk is running), then we should just return the local time of
+          the host.
+
+        * netsvcs/lib/TS_Clerk_Handler.cpp (update_time): Modified
+          ACE_TS_Clerk_Handler::update_time() so that if the Clerk is not
+          connected to any servers, is sets the delta time to zero
+          allowing clients to then use the local time of the host.
+
+Wed Jul 17 22:19:53 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/UPIPE_Connector.cpp (connect): Added an #ifdef around the
+          check of ACE_OS::isastream (handle) in
+          ACE_UPIPE_Connector::connect() since the call is not supported
+          on NT.
+
+Thu Jul 11 22:22:57 1996  Tim H. Harrison  (harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/OS.i (kill): Modified ACE_OS::kill so that it works on NT.
+          It takes a process ID, creates a handle for the associated
+          process, and calls TerminateProcess on the handle.  This is
+          actually pretty dangerous according to the NT documentation.
+          Can majorly confuse DLLs.  Does the same old thing on UNIX.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (fork_exec): Added a fork_exec operation to ACE_OS.
+          This works on UNIX and NT.  It combines the forking and exec'ing
+          into one call.  This has to be combined since Win32
+          CreateProcess only starts applications from scratch (unlike UNIX
+          fork).
+
+        * examples/OS/test_os.cpp: Added a new example application to test 
+          the new ACE_OS::fork_exec and ACE_OS::kill operations.
+
+Tue Jul  9 13:04:14 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Service_Manager.cpp (reconfigure_services): To improve
+          portability on Win32 and UNIX I replaced the use of a signal to
+          trigger reconfiguration to instead make a call to the new
+          ACE_service_Config::reconfig_occurred() method.  This should
+          actually perform the same as the original approach, since all
+          the signal handler ever did was to set this flag!  Thanks to
+          Karlheinz for pointing out the need for this.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.h: Added a new static public method called
+          reconfig_occurred(sig_atomic_t) to set if a reconfiguration
+          should take place the next time through the event loop.
+
+Mon Jul  8 14:20:01 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.h: Added "ACE_Export" before all global operators
+          to allow them to be dll-exportable on NT.
+
+Mon Jul  8 13:12:05 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/{Message_Block,DEV_IO,SPIPE_Stream}.cpp: Fixed several more
+          cases of delete array that should have been delete [] array.
+          Thanks to Tom Leith for pointing out some of these.  I can hear
+          the ghost of James Mansion coming closer... ;-)
+
+        * INSTALL: Added tips on how to install ACE on a Win32 platform
+          that lacks a network card.
+
+        * ChangeLog: Split ChangeLog-96 into two files (ChangeLog-96a and
+          ChangeLog-96b) since it was becoming quite large!  Thanks to
+          Chris Lahey for pointing this out.
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp: Was missing a "return 0;" at the end of the
+          close() method.  Thanks to Tom Leith <trl@icon-stl.net> for
+          finding this.
+
+Mon Jul  8 14:20:01 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Time_Value.h: Added "ACE_Export" before all global operators
+          to allow them to be exportable from Win32 DLLs.
+
+Sun Jul  7 10:34:48 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Released version 4.0.27 for testing.
+
+        * config-sunos5.5*.h: Removed all uses of ACE_HAS_SVR4_SIGNAL_T in
+          the config files since Solaris 2.5 has consistent signal and
+          sigaction types (at last!).
+
+        * Installed and compiled ACE successfully with the new SunC++ 4.1
+          compiler on Solaris 2.5.  However, there seems to be major
+          problems with the interaction of the SunC++ exception handling
+          runtime system and the Solaris multi-threading mechanisms.  This
+          is causing the ACE multi-threading tests to bomb with
+          segmentation faults inside of the _ex_unwind() library function.
+          If you read the /opt/SUNWspro_3.1/READMEs/c++ file you'll see
+          why this problem is occurring (apparently due to bugs in the
+          Solaris libC.so.5 C++ runtime library).
+
+          There seem to be two fixes for this problem:
+          
+          1. Add the following to *all* threads (including main):
+          
+             #include <exception.h>
+
+             void *my_thread_entry_point (void *) {
+               set_terminate (abort);
+               set_unexpected (abort);
+
+               // Do real work...
+             }
+
+             This is the approach recommended by the README file in
+             SUNWspro_3.1.  However, it is *clearly* a horrible hack and
+             very non-portable (therefore, I deem it worthy of Microsoft
+             ;-)).
+          
+          2. Compile ACE (and applications?) with -noex in order to avoid
+             this bug.  This is clearly not desirable either since it
+             precludes the use of exception handling with C++ and threads
+             on Solaris...
+
+          Since ACE doesn't use exceptions internally on Solaris option 2
+          seems like the best approach for the time being.  When Sun gets
+          it act together and releases a bug-free library and C++
+          software, I'll fix ACE accordingly.
+
+        * tests: Integrated the latest of Prashant's "one-button" tests
+          into the main ACE release.  These will run on both UNIX and
+          Win32 now.
+
+        * ace/UPIPE_Stream.cpp (recv): Changed the semantics of the
+          ACE_UPIPE_Stream::recv (char *, size_t, ACE_Time_Value *)
+          method.  Currently, the behavior is to block until *exactly* N
+          bytes are read.  However, this is incorrect for 2 reasons:
+
+          1. It makes it hard to write a server that doesn't know
+             precisely how big the messages are from the client.  In
+             particular, if the receiver doesn't know how big the buffer
+             messages are from the client it will block indefinitely!
+
+          2. It is redundant with respect to the
+             ACE_UPIPE_Stream::recv_n(), which also blocks until all N
+             bytes are received.
+
+          Therefore, I've made the new UPIPE_Stream::recv() method block
+          only until it's received the first block of data that allows it
+          to fulfill its size request, or anything that is smaller than
+          that size.
+
+        * ace/OS.cpp (thr_create): Since POSIX pthreads doesn't provide an
+          equivalent of THR_NEW_LWP in the pthreads_attr_* functions, I've
+          added an emulation that should work for Solaris.  Basically, if
+          THR_NEW_LWP is set when ACE_OS::thr_create() is called, we use
+          the ACE_OS::thr_{get,set}concurrency methods to increase the
+          number of LWPs by one.  
+
+        * ace/Message_Block: Changed the default high water mark for an
+          ACE_Message_Queue from 4K to 16K.  This is useful since it
+          allows applications to buffer more information before blocking.
+
+        * ace/Log_Msg: Added a pair of operations that allow applications
+          to acquire and release the synchronization lock used internally
+          by the ACE_Log_Msg implementation.  This allows applications to
+          hold the lock atomically over a number of calls to ACE_Log_Msg,
+          which is useful for composite operations like the following:
+          
+          // Make sure the following operations are run atomically!
+          ACE_LOG_MSG->acquire ();
+
+          while (c != '!')
+            {
+              if (c_stream.recv (&c, 1) == -1)
+                ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, 
+                           "(%t) buffer recv from supplier failed\n"));
+              else
+                ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "%c", c));
+            }
+
+          ACE_LOG_MSG->release ();
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/UPIPE_SAP: Revised all of the UPIPE_Stream
+          tests to make them more consistent and correct with respect to
+          the new changes.
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp (link_i): There was a bug in the link_i() logic
+          because we weren't also linking the other stream back to our
+          stream.
+
+        * ace/UPIPE_{Acceptor,Connector}: Modified both of these classes
+          so that they don't
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp (close): Modified close() so that it now detects
+          "double-closes" and ignores anything but the first one.
+
+        * ace/UPIPE_Stream: Updated this class so that it no longer
+          inherits from ACE_Stream (previously ACE_UPIPE_Stream had
+          inherited from *both* ACE_Stream *and* ACE_SPIPE).  There are
+          several reasons we shouldn't inherit from ACE_Stream:
+          
+          1. There are operations on ACE_Stream that don't make any sense
+             on ACE_UPIPE_Stream (e.g., link(), unlink()).
+
+          2. ACE_Stream isn't really designed to be subclassed (e.g.,
+             it doesn't have virtual methods).
+
+          3. Not inheriting makes the interface cleaner, e.g., we now use
+             send() and recv() methods consistently, rather than
+             send_msg()/put() and recv_msg()/get().  
+             
+          4. The return values from the I/O methods are now more
+             consistent than they were before.
+
+        * ace/Message_Block: The signature for the copy() method was
+          incorrect.  It should have been copy (const char *, .....)
+          rather than copy (char *, ....).
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/UPIPE_SAP: Together with Prashant, fixed up the
+          ACE_UPIPE_Stream tests so they more cleverly
+          (and correctly) utilize and illustrate various ACE concurrency
+          features.
+
+Sat Jul  6 18:28:55 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Stream.cpp: Fixed some obscure bugs with Stream::unlink()
+          and Stream::link().  These bugs were triggered by the
+          ACE_UPIPE_Stream tests.  We need to make sure that we don't have
+          race conditions in the order in which ACE_UPIPE_Stream close()
+          down.  Prashant and I fixed this problem by (1) adding a lock to
+          unlink() and link() and then creating unlink_i() and link_i() to
+          perform the work and (2) being more careful about trying to
+          unlink our side and the other side of a linked Stream.
+
+        * ace/config-linux.h: According to Istvan Buki
+          <istvan.buki@infoboard.be>, Linux now supports the
+          send_msg()/recv_msg() system calls, as well as UNIX domain
+          sockets.  Therefore, I've updated the config-linux*.h file to
+          remove the existing restrictions.  If this turns out not to be
+          the case, please let me know.
+
+        * ace/LSOCK.cpp (recv_handle): Added a change to some casts to
+          make ACE compile with Linux.  Thanks to Istvan Buki
+          <istvan.buki@infoboard.be> for reporting this.
+
+        * apps/Gateway/Gateway/File_Parser.cpp (readword): Removed
+          yet another use of:
+          
+          for (int x; foo(x); )
+          {
+          }
+
+          x = 10;
+
+          Which is now a deprecated feature of C++.
+
+        * include/makeinclude: added the -lw library to the GNU G++
+          platform*.GNU file in order to pick up the wide-character string
+          functions.
+
+Fri Jul  5 18:11:44 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Re-released version 4.0.26 for testing.
+
+        * ace/CORBA_Handler.cpp (activate_service): Revised the code to
+          use the Orbix macros for TRY/CATCH rather than try/catch.  We
+          need this to make legacy code work!  Thanks to Irfan for
+          pointing this out.
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Fixed a bunch of typos that grelims snuck
+          in.  Thanks to Jack Erickson <jack@cibc.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * examples/IPC_SAP/TLI_SAP/ftp-server.cpp: Fixed some typos that
+          were causing problems on AIX.  Thanks to Greg Wilson
+          <gvwilson@vnet.ibm.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/Misc/test_time_value.cpp (operator<<): Added a
+          "const" in front of the ACE_Time_Value & in order to make things
+          work correctly on AIX.  Thanks to Greg Wilson
+          <gvwilson@vnet.ibm.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * ace/SPIPE_Acceptor: Fixed some missing "returns" that had sprung
+          up in the #else arm of the SPIPE code.  Thanks to Greg Wilson
+          <gvwilson@vnet.ibm.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * apps/Synch-Benchmarks/Benchmark: Fixed a typo that was causing
+          the application to fail to compile on AIX.  Thanks to Greg
+          Wilson <gvwilson@vnet.ibm.com> for reporting this.
+
+        * Changed all uses of virtual int init (int, char **) to virtual
+          int init (int, char *[]) to workaround bugs with MSVC++...
+
+        * ace/OS.h: for POSIX pthreads, changed the definition of the
+          THR_SCOPE_SYSTEM macro so that it has the same value as
+          THR_BOUND.  If this isn't done, then things don't quite work
+          right when we implement the ACE_OS::thr_create() wrapper.
+
+Thu Jul  4 13:17:35 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Added a new method called thr_self() that
+          *does* return a real handle that can be used by
+          WaitForMultipleObjects, etc.  Note that this new approach
+          cleverly caches this handle in TSS in order to cut down on
+          search time.  Thanks to Jesper for pointing this technique out.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_self): After receiving comments from Jesper, undid
+          the earlier change today that was returning a duplicated handle
+          for ACE_OS::thr_self().  It turns out this is a bad idea because
+          the handle most typically doesn't get released, which leads to
+          handle leaks.  
+
+        * ace/Thread_Manager: Added a new private method called
+          check_state().  This method extends existing code to be smarter
+          about how we check to see what "state" (e.g., suspended,
+          cancelled, etc.) a thread is in.  The original code
+          (which was a macro called ACE_CHECK_STATE) didn't behave
+          correctly if we asked about the state of a thread that was
+          different from ourselves!
+
+        * ace/Thread: Modified the public interface to
+          ACE_Thread::spawn_n() so that it now takes a void *stack[] and
+          size_t stack_size[].  If stack != 0 it is assumed to be an array
+          of n pointers to the base of the stacks to use for the threads
+          being spawned.  Likewise, if stack_size != 0 it is assumed to be
+          an array of n values indicating how big each of the
+          corresponding stacks are.  This is useful since now we can spawn
+          a group of threads each of which has its own custom stack and/or
+          stack size.  Thanks to Ashish Singhai
+          <singhai@delirius.cs.uiuc.edu> for pointing out the need for
+          this.
+
+        * apps/Synch-Benchmarks: Updated the Synch benchmarks so that most
+          of them work again.  The trick is *not* to use ACE_OS::sleep ()
+          (which doesn't seem to be thread-friendly...) but instead to use
+          ACE_OS::select() as a timer.
+
+        * man: updated the manual pages and html pages to reflect all the
+          recent changes.
+
+        * ace/Malloc_T.cpp (open): Added a check to make sure that if
+          init_acquire() fails we don't let this go by undetected...
+          Thanks to Karlheinz for pointing out the need for this.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_getconcurrency): Fixed a subtle bug with the
+          ACE_OS::thr_getconcurrency() function.  I was mistakenly using
+          ACE_ADAPT_RETVAL for the result of ::thr_getconcurrency(), which
+          is clearly wrong!
+
+        * ace/Service_Record.cpp (remove): Fixed a typo that was causing
+          the removals of Modules in a dynamically configured Stream to go
+          into infinite loops.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (thr_self): Modified the ACE_OS::thr_self (hthread_t &)
+          function so that it will return a *duplicate* of the current
+          thread's pseudo-handle returned by GetCurrentThread().  This
+          change is necessary because the pseudo-handle returned by
+          GetCurrentThread() is pretty useless (e.g., it can't be used by
+          any other thread to "wait" for this thread to exit).  This new
+          behavior is used in the examples/Reactor/ReactorEx test program.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp: I'd forgotten to assign the
+          delete_svc_rep_ flag when dynamically allocating the svc_rep_.
+          This is fixed now.
+
+Wed Jul  3 20:09:44 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Added a new subdirectory called $WRAPPER_ROOT/tests that
+          contains the first phase of the ACE regression tests.
+
+        * ace/Reactor.cpp (check_handles): Fixed an earlier fix with the
+          ACE_Reactor::wait_for_multiple_events() method.  The earlier fix
+          had changed the exit condition of do/while loop to be
+          
+          while (nfound == -1 && this->handle_error () >= 0);
+
+          However, this was causing signal handling to break...
+          Therefore, the right fix is to keep the exit test as:
+
+          while (nfound == -1 && this->handle_error () > 0);
+
+          and instead fix handle_errors() so that it returns 1 if we're
+          able to fix a bad handle...  Thanks to Prashant and Irfan for
+          tracking this down.
+
+        * ace/OS: Finally broken down and added a new pair of ACE_OS
+          functions called "last_error()".  These basically call
+          SetLastError/GetLastError on Win32 or they set/get errno on
+          UNIX.
+
+        * ace/config-linux.h: Fixed an annoying problem with 
+          struct msghdr in Linux by adding
+
+          #define msg_accrights    msg_control
+          #define msg_accrightslen msg_controllen
+
+          to the config-linux*.h files.  Thanks to Michael R"uger
+          <m_rueger@syscomp.de> for suggesting this.
+
+        * ace/SOCK_IO.cpp (recv): Fixed a "bug" where
+          ACE_SOCK_IO::{send,recv} allocates with:
+
+          iovec *iovp = new iovec[total_tuples];
+
+          But deletes with:
+
+          delete iovp;
+
+          Thanks to the ever vigilant James Mansion
+          (mansionj@lonnds.ml.com) for noticing this.
+
+Tue Jul  2 23:48:38 1996  Tim H. Harrison  (harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.h: Added ReactorEx to the singleton resources
+          that the Service_Configurator holds.  This includes accessors,
+          destruction hooks, and event loop methods.
+
+        * examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/README: There is a new example
+          application for the ReactorEx.  Please check out
+          examples/Reactor/ReactorEx/README for details.
+
+Tue Jul  2 18:43:12 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * Released version 4.0.25 for testing.
+
+        * examples/ASX/Message_Queue/priority_buffer.cpp: Added a new test
+          program that illustrates the use of the new Message_Queue
+          priority scheme.
+
+        * ace/Message_Queue: Added new support for prioritized message
+          enqueueing into the ACE_Message_Queue.  Now, when an application
+          uses ACE_Message_Queue::enqueue() the new Message_Block is
+          inserted into the queue according to its msg_priority().  When
+          dequeue_head() is used the item retrieved will then be the item
+          of "highest priority" (priorities range from 0 to MAX_LONG).
+          Note that the semantics of the existing enqueue methods,
+          enqueue_head() and enqueue_tail(), remain unchanged.
+
+        * ace/Message_Block: Changed the type of the priority in a message
+          block to u_long rather than u_char.  This gives us a much
+          greater range of priorities!
+
+Mon Jul  1 01:12:08 1996  Douglas C. Schmidt  (schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Thread.h: Changed a couple of mistyped comments.  Thanks
+          to the eagle eyes of Andres Kruse for noticing this.
+
+        * ace/OS: added more comprehensive support for UNICODE to
+          both the Win32 and UNIX OS adaptation layer.  This new
+          support automagically selects the appropriate implementation
+          (i.e., either char * or wchar_t *) for the string comparison
+          routines (which are used in places like ACE_Mem_Map).
+
+        * ace/Service_Config: Split up the ACE_Service_Config::close()
+          method into two parts: close_svcs() and close_singletons().
+          This makes it possible to remove svc.conf services without
+          destroying Singletons like the Proactor, Reactor, etc.  Thanks
+          to Karlheinz for recommending this.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config: Added flags for remembering who created the
+          Singleton Proactor, Allocator, Thread_Manager, and
+          Service_Repository (in addition to the Reactor, which I did last
+          week).  If we created these Singletons, then we are responsible
+          for freeing them up.  Thanks to Karlheinz for pointing out the
+          need for this.
+
+Mon Jul  1 16:26:27 1996  Prashant Jain  (pjain@merengue.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Connector.cpp: Added two new arguments to connect () namely,
+          "int flags" and "int perms". The Connector can now pass these
+          two arguments to its template arguments (e.g., SOCK_Connector,
+          SPIPE_Connector, etc.) when calling their connect() method.  A
+          consequence of doing this was that we had to modify the
+          signature of the connect() method on some of the IPC_SAP classes
+          (e.g., TLI_Connector, SOCK_Connector, and LSOCK_Connector).  
+          Note that these changes may break some existing code,
+          particularly with TLI_Connector (see below), so beware...
+
+        * ace/TLI_Connector.cpp: Changed the order of the connect()
+          arguments to be more consistent with the rest of the IPC_SAP
+          classes used with the Connector.  Please note that existing
+          examples which use TLI_Connector may need to be modified as a
+          result of this change.
+
+        * ace/OS.i (open): Modified ACE_OS::open() to use the argument
+          perms to turn the flag FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED on and off for
+          Win32.
+
+        * ace/Service_Config.cpp (end_proactor_event_loop): Added new
+          methods run_proactor_event_loop() and end_proactor_event_loop()
+          which call handle_events on the Proactor.
+
+Mon Jul  1 02:15:34 1996  Tim H. Harrison  (harrison@lambada.cs.wustl.edu)
+
+        * ace/Proactor.h: Made ACE_Proactor an ACE_Event_Handler so that
+          it can be registered with the ACE_ReactorEx.  ACE_Proactor
+          associates the same global HANDLE with every overlapped I/O
+          operation.  This global HANDLE can be registered with the
+          ACE_ReactorEx.  Therefore, by using the
+          ACE_Proactor::handle_signal method as an adapter, we can now
+          dispatch overlapped I/O and other "waitable" objects from a one
+          ACE_ReactorEx running in a single thread of control.  Thanks to
+          James Mansion <mansionj@lonnds.ml.com> for setting us on the
+          right path!
+
+        * ace/ReactorEx.h: Added a ACE_ReactorEx to encapsulate Win32
+          WaitForMultipleObjects().  The ACE_ReactorEx handle_events()
+          method calls ACE_Event_Handler::handle_signal when the
+          corresponding Win32 HANDLE becomes signaled.  This gives us a
+          uniform abstraction for dispatching all "waitable" objects on
+          Win32, including events related to I/O completion ports and
+          events related to other forms of NT synchronization (such as
+          mutexes, semaphores, threads, etc.).
+
+        * ace/Timer_Queue.h (calculate_timeout): Added a calculate_timeout
+          method to ACE_Timer_Queue.  Also removed the same method from
+          ACE_Reactor.  This is so Reactor, ReactorEx, and Proactor can
+          all reuse the calculations required by the Timer_Queue without
+          duplicating code.