IO-Socket-TIPC - Changes

Revision history for Perl extension IO::Socket::TIPC.

1.08 Wed Mar 26 05:09:33 PDT 2008

1.07 Tue Mar 25 06:39:12 PDT 2008

1.06 Mon Jul 17 11:15:35 PDT 2006

03_socket.t skips if kernel doesn't support TIPC. (The other tests already checked this.)

1.05 Tue Jun 27 08:42:00 PDT 2006

1.04 Tue May 16 14:27:00 PDT 2006

Document the fact that ->recvfrom() only requires one argument.
Document the fact that ->getsockopt() and ->setsockopt() are really just the perl builtins, and point to perlfunc.
Minor POD highlighting changes.

1.03 Tue May 10 13:56:00 PDT 2006

Now that Programmers_Guide.txt is on the TIPC website, remove the local copy, link to the official one.

1.02 Tue May 9 10:35:10 PDT 2006

1.01 Tue Apr 25 18:04:40 PDT 2006

1.00 Sun Apr 23 20:15:20 PDT 2006

add documentation for getsockopt/setsockopt, and the TIPC specific flags.
add ->new() fields to set TIPC_IMPORTANCE and TIPC_CONN_TIMEOUT before bind/connect.
remove dependency on Switch.pm. That seems to have sped things up 300%.
add a multicast example. Organize examples/. Document them properly.
tempt fate, release 1.0 - I'm out of features to add, time to fix bugs.

0.11 Sun Apr 23 10:00:35 PDT 2006

change my XS POD into #-style comments... I don't really want my ugly internals listed as "Documentation" on cpan.org.
Sockaddr.pm: fix the ->set_* functions.
implement ->getpeername() and ->getsockname().
export tipc_addr, tipc_zone, tipc_cluster, tipc_node functions.
the documentation should now be complete.

0.10 Sat Apr 22 12:37:25 PDT 2006

Add accessor methods for all of the individual Sockaddr fields.
Sockaddr.pm class instances don't really need to be huge hash references, just a reference to the raw sockaddr_tipc data is fine. This simplifies things quite a bit, and speeds it up a little too.
Add an ugly, spammy, memory-leak test for the XS stuff. It passes.
Run tests in a non-random order.

0.04 Fri Apr 21 09:10:00 PDT 2006

Allan Stephens reported a couple of missing constants. I went and grabbed a copy of tipc-1.5.10, its TIPC is missing PF_TIPC, TIPC_CFG_SRV, TIPC_TOP_SRV and TIPC_RESERVED_NODES. In the interests of maximum portability, I'm making missing constants a nonfatal error; the constant just returns 'undef' if it wasn't defined in tipc.h. Also, PF_TIPC is rather important, so I've conditionally defined it to AF_TIPC in TIPC.xs when found to be undefined. (linux-2.6.16's tipc.h defines it the same way.)
Added an extra set of tests, to ensure useful return values from those constants the TIPC module uses internally. (Currently, a very small subset of the full list.)
The socket(2) manpage indicates its first field should be a PF_ value, not AF_. Switch TIPC.pm to use PF_TIPC.
Fix Sockaddr's _stringify() XS method, to print everything as unsigned integers. This is rather important; portid references are 32-bit and they seem to be randomly generated, so the high bit is set half of the time.

0.03 Fri Apr 21 06:17:00 PDT 2006

Tested the module with 5.6.2 successfully. Lower required version in Makefile.PL, accordingly. perl-5.6.0 failed to build (some Makefile problem), so I was unable to test TIPC against that version.
Rework the Makefile.PL stuff that attempts to find tipc.h. Work with a tipc.h file from either linux kernel sources, or from the tipc addon sources.
As a useful side effect of the above, tell CPANPLUS not to report build failures if the prerequisites aren't met (OS = Linux, can find tipc.h).
Implement sendto() and recvfrom(). These are still a bit hackish at the moment, but I can fix that without changing the API.
Write tests for SOCK_RDM and SOCK_DGRAM. Update the testsuite to always call things in the right order, rather than relying on sleep(1) to avoid race conditions. This speeds "make test" up by 5 seconds or more.
Adjust t/sockaddr.t to skip the throws_ok() tests, when the user doesn't have Test::Exception installed. Since we run without it, remove it from the list of dependencies.
Release 0.03.

0.02 Thu Apr 20 13:15:23 PDT 2006

0.01 Thu Apr 20 09:34:45 PDT 2006