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From: mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Frank Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: Release: FSU POSIX Threads Lib V2.8 for ix86 and SPARC (Linux, FreeBSD, SCO, SunOS, Solaris)
Date: 3 Apr 1996 03:01:50 -0600
Organization: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
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Pthreads Mailing List, Message 16, Apr  1, 1996:
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1. BUGS:

  .bug fix: linux/io.S needed negation for error codes.
   (problem and fix by: Uwe Hey <hey@osn.de>)
  .bug fix: io.c fd_server reduced count of fd's w/o having served them
   (problem and fix by: Uwe Hey <hey@osn.de>)
  .bug fix: linux,freebsd,sco setjmp does mem access past jmp_buf structure
   (problem reported by: Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>)
  .bug fix: sco,freebsd signal.c sa_restore should not be compiled
   (problem and fix by: cappato@relay.Marconi.IT (Marco Cappato))
  .bug fix: linux,sco,freebsd io.c errno should not be set anymore at
   pthread_sys_read/write
   (problem and fix by: cappato@relay.Marconi.IT (Marco Cappato))
  .bug fix: SunOS io.c select() added SYNCTIMER flag
  .update: linux,sco,freebsd io.c server thread for IO has MAX prio
   (by: cappato@relay.Marconi.IT (Marco Cappato))
  .update: linux 1.2.13 updates for new /usr/include/signal.h (const)

2. RELEASE:

The release of version 2.8 is now available on ftp (FSU) and on WWW
(hu-berlin).  I hope the Aprils-fools release does not hamper the
performance or functionality :-)

-- Frank

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Report any bugs or problems to:

pthreads-bugs@ada.cs.fsu.edu
-- 
Frank Mueller   E-Mail: mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de   WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller