Revision history for Perl extension BSD::Sysctl

0.10 2009-09-25 19:55:25 UTC

• Fix coredump bug introduced in 0.09 buffer allocation.
• Support for 64-bit values from Emil Mikulic.

0.09 2009-09-14 17:52:15 UTC

• Added support for 8.0, better handling of kern.geom.confxml et al., and an example, courtesy of Sergey Skvortsov.

0.08 2007-01-16 21:28:29 UTC

• Added an iterator() method to permit iterations through the variable tree.
• An iterator may be reset(), its points to something with a name() and a value().
• For the sysctl variables that correspond to C structs that we decode, if the OS version does not define a member, then create the hash key anyway, and set it to an empty string. This allows cross-version programs to work with fewer version checks.
• Rationalised the example programs.
• Added a typemap for Perl 5.6

0.07 2006-10-22 10:17:00 UTC

• Didn't realise that there was another test for kern.lastpid in t/01-get.t

0.06 2006-10-10 14:51:55 UTC

• Test failure on FreeBSD 4.10: kern.lastpid does not exist, use something else (the module worked, regardless).
• Previous release in this Changes file referred to 0.06 instead of 0.05.

0.05 2006-10-09 20:59:54 UTC

• ia64 support,as seen by looking at: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutils&portname=p5-BSD-Sysctl
• sparc support should have come along for free with the patch for amd64.

0.04 2006-10-08 17:39:52 UTC

• amd64 support, courtesy of a patch from Douglas Steinwand.
• Licensing information clarified in Makefile.PL.
• More documentation in Sysctl.pm pod, as well as the README.

0.03 2006-08-31 18:19:42

• Object-oriented interface added for getting/setting variables continuously.

0.02 2006-08-31 11:02:43

• You can now set the values of variables (assuming they are not read-only).
• Fixed up coredumps when sysctl values are zero-length ASCII strings. Removed the %MIB_SKIP hack.
• Use a buffer sized for the size of the result, rather than a fixed-length buffer, to retrieve sysctl values that are very large (larger than BUFSIZ). Perhaps still sub-optimal.
• Avoided using unnecessary BUFSIZ-sized buffers in a couple of places.
• Added a sysctl_description() function to return the OS-defined descriptive name of a sysctl variable.
• Now able to retrieve opaque values like kern.geom.confxml.
• Use RETVAL directly in miblookup().
• Detabbed various files.

0.01 2006-07-23

• Initial release.