Revision history for Perl extension IPC::ShareLite.

0.17 2009-03-10

• Make unicode test work on older Perls.

0.16 2009-03-09

• Add unicode test.

0.15 2009-03-09

• Add some logging to help diagnose smoke failures.

0.14 2009-03-07

• Croak if 4 char key string is not 8-bit clean. See #33672.

0.13 2008-03-09

• Fixed patching of double quoted strings in Makefile. Affects Win32 and, probably, VMS.

0.12 2008-02-25

• Use Devel::CheckLib to verify that we have a C compiler.

0.11 2008-02-25

• Removed POD coverage test. Dynamic constants make it flaky.

0.10 2008-02-24

• Use Perl's malloc wrappers
• moved test into t/sharelite.t
• made test use Test::More
• removed Configure mechanism
• assorted minor tidying

0.09 Wed Dec 4 13:51:05 PST 2002

• fixed bug in size() thanks to Craig Manley <c.manley@skybound.nl>

0.08 Sat Jul 15 03:00:16 PDT 2000

• added define for PL_sv_undef for older perls thanks to Christian Gilmore <Christian_Gilmore@tivoli.com>

0.07 Fri Apr 14 02:56:47 PDT 2000

• changed sv_undef to PL_sv_undef; should now compile under 5.006. Thanks to Frey Kuo <frey@engineer.com> and Leon Brocard <leon@astray.com>
• improved performance of rearrangeargs() thanks to patch from Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>
• renamed all func names to sharelitefunc due to conflict with IRIX libraries. Thanks to John Clutterbuck <john.clutterbuck@sbs.siemens.co.uk>

0.06 Tue Jan 18 04:33:57 PST 2000

• Eliminated some warnings thanks to Jim Mosier <jim.mosier@usa.net>
• Fix DESTROY bug thanks to Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>

0.05 Thu Dec 10 08:00:22 PST 1998

• adding casting to shmat() calls
• was checking shmat() return value for NULL instead of -1
• removed -O3 from Makefile.PL

0.04 Sun Nov 29 17:38:48 PST 1998

• now using metaconfig to determine whether semun definition is available -- thanks to Paul J. Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>.

0.03 Thu Nov 19 12:36:06 PST 1998

• changed shlock() and shunlock() to lock() and unlock(). old names were confusing. Old names remain but are deprecated.
• added accessor methods for key, exclusive, etc.
• added _initialize() method
• added retry for EIDRM error when allocating additional segments
• added version() method for use with per-process caches
• moved segment state variable from semaphore to shared memory (it's faster)
• modified documentation

0.02 Sat Nov 14 05:20:01 1998

• removed signal stuff from tests
• added destroy() accessor method
• added check for EINVAL when locking semaphore in new_share()
• replaced lock_ex() and lock_sh() methods with single shlock() method that accepts flock() flags. Renamed unlock() to shunlock().
• LOCK_EX, LOCK_SH, LOCK_UN, and LOCK_NB now available for import.
• replaced sv_setpvn() call with sv_usepvn() in read_share() XS function to remove an unnecessary mem copy.
• modified documentation.

0.01 Mon Nov 9 17:49:02 1998

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18