source: trunk/essentials/dev-lang/perl/os2/Changes@ 3210

Last change on this file since 3210 was 3181, checked in by bird, 19 years ago

perl 5.8.8

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1after 5.003_05:
2 PERLLIB_PREFIX was not active if it matches an element of @INC
3 as a whole.
4 Do not need PERL_SBRK if crtdll-revision is >= 50.
5 Use -Zsmall-conv if crtdll-revision is >= 50 (in static perl!).
6:7: warning: #warning <dirent.h> requires <sys/types.h>
7 We compile miniperl static. It cannot fork, thus there may be
8 problems with pipes (since HAS_FORK is in
9 place). Pipes are required by makemaker.
10 We compile perl___.exe A.OUT and dynamic. It should be able to
11 fork.
12 If we can fork, we my_popen by popen unless "-|". Thus we
13 write a cooky "-1" into the pid array to indicate
14 this.
15 Apparently we can fork, and we can load dynamic extensions
16 now, though probably not simultaneously.
17 *DB tests corrected for OS/2 one-user stat[2].
18 /bin/sh is intercepted and replaced by SH_PATH.
19 Note that having '\\' in the command line of one-arg `system'
20 would trigger call via shell.
21 Segfault with system {'ls'} 'blah'; corrected.
22 Documentation of OS/2-different features added to main PODs.
23 New buitins in Cwd::
24
25 Cwd::current_drive
26 Cwd::sys_chdir - leaves drive as it is.
27 Cwd::change_drive
28 Cwd::sys_is_absolute - has drive letter and is_rooted
29 Cwd::sys_is_rooted - has leading [/\\] (maybe
30 after a drive)
31 Cwd::sys_is_relative - changes with current dir
32 Cwd::sys_cwd - Interface to cwd from EMX.
33 Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)
34 - Really really odious
35 function. Returns absolute
36 name of file which would
37 have 'name' if CWD were 'dir'.
38 Dir defaults to the current dir.
39 Cwd::extLibpath [type] - Get/set current value of extended
40 Cwd::extLibpath_set - library search path.
41 path [type]
42 The optional last argument redirects
43 to END-path if true,
44 default is to search BEGIN-path.
45 (Note that some of these may be moved to different
46 libraries - eventually).
47 Executables:
48 perl - can fork, can dynalink (but not simultaneously)
49 perl_ - can fork, cannot dynalink
50 perl__ - same as perl___, but PM.
51 perl___ - cannot fork, can dynalink.
52 The build of the first one - perl - is rather convoluted, and
53 requires a build of miniperl_.
54
55after 5.003_07:
56 custom tmpfile and tmpname which may use $TMP, $TEMP.
57 all the calls to OS/2 API wrapped so that it is safe to use
58 them under DOS (may die(), though).
59 Tested that popen works under DOS with modified PDKSH and RSX.
60 File::Copy works under DOS.
61 MakeMaker modified to work under DOS (perlmain.c.tmp and sh -c true).
62
63after 5.003_08:
64 OS2::PrfDB exports symbols as documented;
65 should work on OS/2 2.1 again.
66 uses reliable signals when spawing.
67 do not use popen() any more - no intermediate shell unless needed.
68
69after 5.003_11:
70 Functions emx_{malloc,realloc,calloc,free} are exported from DLL.
71 get_sysinfo() bugs corrected (flags were not used and wrongly defined).
72
73after 5.003_20:
74 _isterm is substituted instead of isatty, s?random instead of srand.
75 `register' disabled if -DDEBUGGING and not AOUT build: stupid SD386.
76 3-argument select() was stomping over memory.
77
78after 5.003_21:
79 Can start scripts by executing 'dir/script' and
80 'script.sh'. Form without extension will call shell only if
81 the specified file exists (will not look on path) (to prohibit
82 trying to run shell commands directly). - Needed by magic.t.
83
84after 5.003_27:
85 ALTERNATE_SHEBANG="extproc " supported, thus options on this
86 line are processed (possibly twice). -S is made legal on such
87 a line. This -S -x is not needed any more.
88 perl.dll may be used from non-EMX programs (via PERL_SYS_INIT
89 - the caller should have valid variable "env" with
90 environment). Known problems: $$ does not work - is 0, waitpid
91 returns immediately, thus Perl cannot wait for completion of
92 started programs.
93
94after 5.004_01:
95 flock emulation added (disable by setting env PERL_USE_FLOCK=0),
96 thanks to Rocco Caputo;
97 RSX bug with missing waitpid circomvented;
98 -S bug with full path with \ corrected.
99
100before 5.004_02:
101 -S switch to perl enables a search with additional extensions
102 .cmd, .btm, .bat, .pl as well. This means that if you have
103 mycmd.pl or mycmd.bat on PATH,
104 perl -S mycmd
105 will work. Perl will also look in the current directory first.
106 Moreover, a bug with \; in PATH being non-separator is fixed.
107
108after 5.004_03:
109 $^E tracks calls to CRT now. (May break if Perl masks some
110 changes to errno?)
111 $0 may be edited to longer lengths (at least under OS/2).
112 OS2::REXX->loads looks in the OS/2-ish fashion too.
113
114after 5.004_04:
115 Default perl.exe was built with a shorter stack than expected.
116 Strip extensions DLLs too (unless debugging build).
117 ./os2.c being RO could stop cp.
118 When starting scripts, Perl will find them on path (using the same
119 extensions as for -S command-line switch). If it finds magic
120 `extproc ' or `#!' cookies, it will start the scripts directly.
121 May use `cmd /c more <' as a pager.
122 If a program could not be started, this might have been hidden.
123 End of pipe was closed twice when `open'ing a pipeline.
124
125after 5.004_53:
126 Minimal thread support added. One needs to manually move pthread.h
127
128after 5.004_64:
129 Make DLL names different if thread-enabled.
130 Emit more informative internal DLL descriptions.
131
1325.004_72:
133 Updated OS2::Process (v0.2) included.
134
135after 5.004_73:
136 Fixed a bug with argv not NULL-terminated when starting scripts.
137 Support all the forms of starting scripts.
138 Support killing a child when receiving a signal during system()
139 (in two stage, on first send the same signal, on the next
140 send SIGKILL).
141 Add the same logic for scripts as in pdksh, including
142 stripping the path from #! line if needed,
143 calling EXECSHELL or COMSPEC for magic-less scripts;
144 Now pdksh is called only if one-arg system()/friends contains
145 metachars, or if magic-line asks for sh, or there is no magic
146 line and EXECSHELL is set to sh.
147 Shell is supplied the original command line if possible.
148
149after 5.005_02:
150 Can start PM programs from non-PM sessions by plain system()
151 and friends. Can start DOS/Win programs. Can start
152 fullscreen programs from non-fullscreen sessions too.
153 In fact system(P_PM,...) was broken.
154 We mangle the name of perl*.DLL, to allow coexistence of different
155 versions of Perl executables on the system. Mangling of
156 names of extension DLL is also changed, thus running two
157 different versions of the executable with loaded
158 extensions should not lead to conflicts (since
159 extension-full-name and Perl-version mangling work in the
160 same set ot 576 possible keys, this may lead to clashes).
161 $^E was reset on the second read, and contained ".\r\n" at the end.
162
163after 5.005_53:
164 Would segfault system()ing non-existing program;
165 AOUT build was hosed;
166 warning-test for getpriority() might lock the system hard on
167 pre-fixpak22 configuration (calling getpriority() on
168 non-existing process triggers a system-wide bug).
169
170
171 PrfDB was using a bug in processing XSUBs returning U32.
172
173 Variable $OS2::emx_rev implemented (string and numberic values
174 are the same as C variables _emx_rev and _emx_vprt).
175 Variable $OS2::emx_env implemented (same as C variable _emx_env).
176 Variable $OS2::os_ver implemented (_osmajor + 0.001 * _osminor).
177
178 Improved centralized management of HAB and HMQ. To get Perl's
179 HAB, call perl_hab_GET(). (After the initial call one
180 can use Perl_hab instead.) To require Perl's HMQ,
181 call perl_hmq_GET(), to release it call perl_hmq_UNSET(),
182 to obtain it between these calls use Perl_hmq.
183 HMQ management is refcounted, and the program will morph
184 itself into/from PM if required.
185 If perl.h cannot be included, hab may be obtained by Perl_hab_GET().
186
187 New function OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception). Returns
188 undef if it was not called yet, otherwise bit 1 is
189 set if on previous call do_harderror was enabled, bit
190 2 is set if if on previous call do_exception was enabled.
191 This function enables/disables error popups associated with
192 hardware errors (Disk not ready etc.) and software exceptions.
193
194 New function OS2::Errors2Drive(drive). Returns undef if it was
195 not called yet, otherwise return false if Errors were
196 not requested to be written to a hard drive, or the
197 drive letter if this was requested.
198 This function may redirect error popups associated with
199 hardware errors (Disk not ready etc.) and software exceptions
200 to the file POPUPLOG.OS2 at the root directory of the
201 specified drive. Overrides OS2::Error() specified by
202 individual programs. Given argument undef will
203 disable redirection. Has global effect, persists
204 after the application exits.
205
206 New function OS2::SysInfo(). Returns a hash with system information.
207 The keys of the hash are
208
209 MAX_PATH_LENGTH, MAX_TEXT_SESSIONS, MAX_PM_SESSIONS,
210 MAX_VDM_SESSIONS, BOOT_DRIVE, DYN_PRI_VARIATION,
211 MAX_WAIT, MIN_SLICE, MAX_SLICE, PAGE_SIZE,
212 VERSION_MAJOR, VERSION_MINOR, VERSION_REVISION,
213 MS_COUNT, TIME_LOW, TIME_HIGH, TOTPHYSMEM, TOTRESMEM,
214 TOTAVAILMEM, MAXPRMEM, MAXSHMEM, TIMER_INTERVAL,
215 MAX_COMP_LENGTH, FOREGROUND_FS_SESSION,
216 FOREGROUND_PROCESS
217
218 New function OS2::BootDrive(force). Returns a letter without colon.
219
220 New functions OS2::MorphPM(serve)/OS2::UnMorphPM(serve). Transforms
221 the current application into a PM application and back.
222 The argument true means that a real message loop is
223 going to be performed.
224 OS2::MorphPM() returns the PM message queue handle as an integer.
225
226 New function OS2::Serve_Messages(force). Fake on-demand
227 retrieval of outstanding PM messages. If force is false,
228 will not dispatch messages if a real message loop is known to
229 be present. Returns number of messages retrieved.
230 Dies with "QUITing..." if WM_QUIT message is obtained.
231
232 New function OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt]). Retrieval
233 of PM messages until window creation/destruction.
234 If force is false, will not dispatch messages
235 if a real message loop is known to be present.
236 Returns change in number of windows. If cnt is given,
237 it is incremented by the number of messages retrieved.
238 Dies with "QUITing..." if WM_QUIT message is obtained.
239
240after 5.005_54:
241 Opening pipes from/to processes could fail if (un)appropriate
242 combination of STDIN/STDOUT was closed.
243
244 If the only shell-metachars of a command are ' 2>&1' at the
245 end of a command, it is executed without calling the external shell.
246
247after 5.005_57:
248 Make UDP sockets return correct caller address (OS2 API bug);
249 Enable TCPIPV4 defines (works with Warp 3 IAK too?!);
250 Force Unix-domain sockets to start with "/socket", convert
251 '/' to '\' in the calls;
252 Make C<system 1, $cmd> to treat $cmd as in C<system $cmd>;
253 Autopatch Configure;
254 Find name and location of g[nu]patch.exe;
255 Autocopy perl????.dll to t/ when testing;
256
257after 5.005_62:
258 Extract a lightweight DLL access module OS2::DLL from OS2::REXX
259 which would not load REXX runtime system;
260 Allow compile with os2.h which loads os2tk.h instead of os2emx.h;
261 Put the version of EMX CRTL into -D define;
262 Use _setsyserror() to store last error of OS/2 API for $^E;
263 New macro PERL_SYS_INIT3(argvp, argcp, envp);
264 Make Dynaloader return info on the failing module after failed dl_open();
265 OS2::REXX test were done for interactive testing (were writing
266 "ok" to stderr);
267 system() and friends return -1 on failure (was 0xFF00);
268 Put the full name of executable into $^X
269 (alas, uppercased - but with /);
270 t/io/fs.t was failing on HPFS386;
271 Remove extra ';' from defines for MQ operations.
272
273pre 5.6.1:
274 Resolved: "Bad free()" messages (e.g., from DB_File) with -Zomf build.
275 The reason was: when an extension DLL was linked, the order of
276 libraries was similar to this:
277 f1.obj f2.obj libperl.lib -llibr1 -llibr2