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Sat Jan 15 00:41:12 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

	* netsvcs/clients/Naming/Client/main.cpp (main): Replaced
	  the ad hoc use of argc/argv processing with the ACE_ARGV
 	  approach.

	* examples/Service_Configurator/Misc/main.cpp (main): Replaced
	  the ad hoc use of argc/argv processing with the ACE_ARGV
 	  approach.  Note that this required the enhancement shown in the
 	  following bullet.

	* ace/Svc_Conf.l: Updated the Service Configurator lexer so that
	  it will also accept strings that are delimited by single quotes,
 	  as well as double quotes.  This helps to simplify the use of
 	  ACE_ARGV to create svc.conf entries "on-the-fly".

	* tests: Added a new test ARGV_Test.cpp that  illustrates how to
	  use advanced features of <ACE_ARGV>.  Thanks to Suresh Kannan
 	  <kannan@uav.ae.gatech.edu> for contributing this.

	* ace/config-win32-common.h: Added 
	
	  #define ACE_LACKS_SETREGID
	  #define ACE_LACKS_SETREUID
  
          Thanks to Christopher Kohlhoff <chris@kohlhoff.com> for
 	  reporting this.

	* ace/Task.h: Added a comment to the suspend() and resume() methods 
	  encouraging developers not to use these methods unless
 	  absolutely necessary.  Thanks to Mark C. Barnes <marcus@muse3d.com>
	  for motivating this.

	* ace: Reorganized the config-win32*.h files
	  to insulate the different compiler configurations from each
	  other.  The changes are as follows:
  
          * Concatenated config-win32.h and config-win32-common.h to form the new 
	    config-win32-common.h.

	  * Moved MSVC-specific language defines from config-win32-common.h
 	    into config-win32-msvc.h

	  * Updated the other compilers' files to add required language defines 
	    originally in config-win32-common.h.
  
          Thanks to Christopher Kohlhoff <chris@kohlhoff.com> for
 	  contributing this.
	
Fri Jan 14 15:42:28 2000  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@cs.wustl.edu>

	* ace/Select_Reactor_T.cpp (work_pending): Made the code more
	  general such that any thread can call it, i.e., it is not
	  limited to the owner thread.  This change alleviated the need
	  for the specialization in TP_Reactor.

Fri Jan 14 01:48:26 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

	* ace/Process: Moved the command_line_argv() from the
	  non-Win32 part of the ACE_Process class to the generic
	  part since it shouldn't depend on the platform.  Thanks
	  to Michael Kircher for reporting this.

	* ace/Process: Consider a process that spawns a number of
 	  processes using a same executable name but with different
 	  arguments <say svc.conf file..>. Depending on the arguments,
 	  each process does different things.  Currently
 	  <ACE_Process::spawn> calls <execvp> with argv[0] as the
 	  exeutable name. Therefore, if you do a <ps> command now, all
 	  these processes will look the same, since they are all launched
 	  with the same command.

	  But for <execvp> call, you could actually give a different
	  executable name and a different argv[0]. This helps us to have
	  the name for a process to be different from the executable
	  name. In this case, <ps> command will show the processes with
	  different argv[0] names.

	  Therefore, we added a method called <process_name> to
 	  ACE_Process_Options to specify the executable name.  If you do
 	  not call <process_name> method, argv[0] is taken as the
 	  executable name.  Thanks to Alex Arulanthu <alex@sylantro.com>
	  for these enhancements.

Thu Jan 13 20:11:55 2000  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@cs.wustl.edu>

	* ace/TP_Reactor.cpp (work_pending): This version is similar to
	  the select reactor except there is no owner check.

	* ace/Select_Reactor_T.cpp (work_pending): The handle set must be
	  copied before calling select().

Thu Jan 13 16:06:19 2000  Balachandran Natarajan  <bala@cs.wustl.edu>

	* bin/auto_compile:
	* bin/run_all.pl:
	* bin/run_all_list.pm: Added an AMI test case for testing in the
	  nightly builds.

Wed Jan 12 23:46:36 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

	* ace/Service_Config.h: Updated the
	  ACE_Service_Config::close_singletons() method documentation to
 	  reflect the fact that it no longer deletes the Allocator, which
 	  is deleted by the ACE_Object_Manager now.  Thanks to Craig
 	  Perras <cperras@watchguard.com> for reporting this.

Wed Jan 12 09:49:57 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * bin/make_release: don't create diffs if not installing
          the kit.

Wed Jan 12 07:22:42 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * Makefile (CONTROLLED_FILES): removed
          man/man3/Makefile.am and man/html/Makefile.am.  There
          addition in
          Tue Jan  4 12:58:54 2000  Ossama Othman  <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
          caused creation of .zip files to break.  zip doesn't like
          multiple occurrences of a file, apparently. [Bug 408]

Tue Jan 11 21:59:34 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * bin/make_release (create_kit): disable creation of
          md5 files, because it didn't work:  just empty files
          were created.  I think that it was looking in the wrong
          directory.

Tue Jan 11 21:26:14 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * bin/make_release (check_workspace): removed the bootstrap
          invocation.  That is done in create_kit (), and should only
          be done once.  (create_kit): set umask to 2, so that the
          kits will have group write permission.

Tue Jan 11 17:39:10 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/Service_Config.h: Updated the ACE_Service_Config::close()
          method documentation to reflect the fact that it no longer
          closes the singletons (these are closed by the
          ACE_Object_Manager now).  Thanks to Craig Perras
          <cperras@watchguard.com> for reporting this.

Tue Jan 11 17:22:21 2000  bala  <bala@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ACE version 5.0.12 released.

Mon Jan 10 12:50:10 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/Select_Reactor_T.h (class ACE_Select_Reactor_T): Reformatted the
          documentation a bit...

Mon Jan 10 15:37:22 2000  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/Pair_T: Added const accessors to the pair class.  Also,
          changed the Reference_Pair accessors to be const.  Thanks to
          Serge Kolgan <skolgan@cisco.com> for reporting this.

Sun Jan  9 00:25:58 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/Process.i (setreugid): Added an ACE_UNUSED_ARG for the
          ACE_LACKS_PWD_FUNCTIONS case.  Thanks to David for catching
          this!

        * ace/Process.i (setreugid): Guard against the case where
          ACE_LACKS_PWD_FUNCTIONS.  Thanks to David Levine for
          reporting this problem with VxWorks.

        * ace/Pair_T.h: Reformatted to conform to the ACE style.

Sat Jan  8 09:44:51 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * examples/Threads/thread_pool.cpp: Revised the example to
          illustrate the new "wait_for_threads_in_destructor" feature of
          ACE_Task.

        * examples/Threads/task_four.cpp: Reformatted the code.

        * ace/Task_T: Added a new flag to the constructor that enables
          applications to request that an ACE_Task will wait in its
          destructor for any and all threads in the task to exit before
          returning.  Thanks to Valery Arkhangorodsky
          <valerya@servicesoft.com> for suggesting this.

        * ace/OS.i: Needed to add an extern "C" {} block around the
          setregid() and setreuid() functions.  Thanks to David Levine
          for reporting this.

Fri Jan  7 20:01:48 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/OS.i,
          ace/config-sunos5.5.h: Some platforms seem to lack function
          prototypes for setreuid() and setregid(), even though they are
          in the library.  Therefore, I've added

          #define ACE_LACKS_SETREGID_PROTOTYPE

          and

          #define ACE_LACKS_SETREUID_PROTOTYPE

          macros to handle this case.

        * ace/Process: Added support to allow UNIX applications to
          automagically set the real and effective user/group ids when
          ACE_Process::spawn() is called.  Thanks to Craig Perras
          <cperras@watchguard.com> for contributing this.

        * ace: Updated the following files to include

          #define ACE_LACKS_SETREGID
          #define ACE_LACKS_SETREUID

          config-chorus.h
          config-cray.h:168
          config-cygwin32-common.h
          config-freebsd-pthread.h
          config-freebsd.h:33
          config-hpux-9.x.h
          config-lynxos.h
          config-netbsd.h
          config-sunos4-g++.h
          config-sunos4-sun4.1.4.h
          config-win32-common.h

          Ideally, Ossama's autoconf stuff will auto-detect anything that
          I'm missing.

        * ace/OS: Added wrapper facade methods for setregid() and
          setregid().

Fri Jan  7 16:05:32 2000  Ossama Othman  <ossama@uci.edu>

        * configure.in:

          Only define ACE_HAS_XT if both the Xt headers and libraries are
          available.  Previously, the existence of the Xt libraries was
          not part of the XtReactor enable criterion.

        * m4/compiler.m4 (ACE_SET_COMPILER_FLAGS):

          Added C++ preprocessor flag documentation and trivial support.

          Many AIX related compiler flag updates.

        * m4/platform.m4 (ACE_SET_PLATFORM_MACROS):

          Moved/consolidated platform-specific settings from configure.in
          to here.

          Improved AIX support (updates, fixes, etc).

Fri Jan  7 10:48:55 2000  Nanbor Wang  <nanbor@cs.wustl.edu>

        * bin/run_all_list.pm: Added missing commas.

Thu Jan 06 22:26:42 2000  Irfan Pyarali  <irfan@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/OS.i (fcntl): There was a special fcntl() for Win32.
          Removed that special version and added ACE_LACKS_FCNTL to
          config-win32-common.h.

        * ace/ACE.cpp: Removed the non-"_n" versions of send/recv
          functions that deal with message blocks.  Since we deal with
          continuation chains and linked messages, we are essentially
          dealing with "_n" style functions.  Also, improved the error
          handling in case of timeouts.

        * ace/Strategies_T.cpp
          (ACE_Cached_Connect_Strategy::connect_svc_handler): If an error
          occurs while activating the handler, the <activate_svc_handler>
          method will close the handler.  We must set the handler to zero
          to make sure that the higher layer doesn't try to close the
          handler again!

Thu Jan  6 15:00:56 2000  Ossama Othman  <othman@cs.wustl.edu>

        * aclocal.m4:
        * configure:
        * All Makefile.in:

          Removed these files.  They are automatically generated, so they
          should not be in the repository.  Thanks to David for pointing
          out that my ACE+autoconf updates caused CVS conflicts when
          updating existing workspaces.

Wed Jan  5 10:09:35 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/Dirent.h: Added an ACE_Export on the ACE_Dirent class.  I'm
          surprised this hasn't been a problem before...  Thanks to
          Dominic Williams <dom@connected-place.co.uk> for indirectly
          motivating this change.

        * ace/SString.h: Updated the documentation for the various string
          wrapper facades to clarify that they don't perform any locking.
          Thanks to Jerry Jiang <javalist@21cn.com> for motivating this.

Wed Jan 05 09:53:04 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/SOCK_Stream.[hi] (sendv_n): added const to iov[]
          argument declaration.  Thanks to Rob Ruff <rruff@scires.com>
          for reporting that TAO's AV service failed to compile
          with Sun CC 5.0 because of this.

Tue Jan  4 15:06:41 2000  Ossama Othman  <othman@cs.wustl.edu>

        * configure.in:

          Added note that asks user to use stock ACE build procedure
          detailed in ACE-INSTALL.html in the event that the configure
          script fails.

Tue Jan  4 14:40:17 2000  Ossama Othman  <othman@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/OS.h:

          AIX defines "off64_t" as its 64 bit offset type.  Typedef
          ACE_LOFF_T as that type if ACE_HAS_LLSEEK or ACE_HAS_LSEEK64 is
          defined.  This should correct a problem that occurred during an
          AIX configure script run.  Thanks to Mike Winter for pointing
          this out.

Tue Jan  4 14:09:51 2000  Ossama Othman  <othman@cs.wustl.edu>

        * configure.in:

          Fixed test that checks if sched.h is needed for thread
          scheduling definitions.  This should correct problems discovered
          on RedHat 6.1 installations.  Thanks to

          Improved sys_nerr and sys_errlist[] tests by checking for
          external global variables in libraries.  This should correct a
          problem discovered in an AIX configure script run.  Thanks to
          Mike Winter for providing feedback.

Tue Jan  4 13:23:26 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/Service_Config: Updated the documentation for the various
          open() methods and the constructors.  Thanks to Christopher
          Kohlhoff <chris@kohlhoff.com> for reporting this.

Tue Jan  4 12:58:54 2000  Ossama Othman  <othman@cs.wustl.edu>

        * Makefile (CONTROLLED_FILES):

          man/man3/Makefile.am and man/html/Makefile.am previously weren't
          being labelled.  Thanks to David for pointing this out.

Mon Jan  3 21:01:53 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * examples/Service_Configurator/IPC-tests: Updated the
          README file so it'll point to the right documentation!  Thanks
          to John Buttitto for reporting this.

Tue Jan 04 07:26:24 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ACE version 5.0.11 released.

Mon Jan 03 07:34:38 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/OS.i (gmtime_r): return res instead of *res, because
          the function returns a struct tm *, not a struct tm.

Sun Jan  2 11:02:54 2000  Douglas C. Schmidt  <schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/OS.i (gmtime_r): We should return *res rather than
          *result to make the behavior correct for Win32.  Thanks to
          J. Afshar <jafshar@vignette.com> for reporting this.

Sun Jan 02 00:50:00 2000  Chris Gill  <cdgill@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ace/OS.{cpp, h, i}
          ace/Signal.cpp
          ace/Synch.cpp
          ace/config-psos-diab-ppc.h: Added support for native mutexs,
          condition variables, and thread-specific storage in pSOS.  Native
          pSOS mutexes, where available, support several cool features,
          including lock recursion and priority inheritance protocol and
          priority ceiling protocol support.

Sat Jan 01 09:16:39 2000  David L. Levine  <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

        * ChangeLog,Makefile: moved to ChangeLog-99b.