What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-09-15)

Wed Sep 15 15:11:50 CEST 2010

The next release will be R14B01.

The uw/epmd-fullnames branch has been taken out of 'pu'
and has is now listed in the Stalled section of this email.

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[Graduated]

* cg/docs-fixes (erts, stdlib, tools) (2010-09-06) 2 commits
 + Linkify applications listed under "See Also" (e51b9af)
 + Fix minor typos in the documentation (731b839)

* mk/net-dragonfly-bsd-patches (asn1, common_test, erl_interface,
erts, et, mnesia, reltool, runtime_tools, test_server, wx)
(2010-06-23) 4 commits
 + Remove unused variables (88a04a1)
 + Use proper install method (6960062)
 + Add support for DragonFly BSD (2008472)
 + Add support for NetBSD (2fb2a1e)

* ms/ei-overflow-fix (erl_interface) (2010-08-21) 1 commit
 + ei: prevent overflow in ei_connect_init/ei_xconnect (ada2e2f)

* ms/ei_connect-doc-examples (erl_interface) (2010-08-21) 1 commit
 + ei_connect: correct man page examples (cdd39a4)

* ms/fix-erl_call-overflow (erl_interface) (2010-08-22) 1 commit
 + erl_call: fix multiple buffer overflows (e4ee460)

* ms/inet-bug-fixes (erts, kernel) (2010-07-21) 4 commits
 + inet: support retrieving MAC address on BSD (8393c5d)
 + inet: fix getservbyname buffer overflow (d61d41e)
 + inet: fix ifr_name buffer overflow (227d3f3)
 + inet: null terminate ifr_name buffer (cfcb962)

* pg/fix-hipe-crash-in-gc_after_bif (erts) (2010-07-17) 1 commit
 + Fix call to erts_gc_after_bif_call in hipe glue (8bbcecd)

* ph/auto_recognize_ipv6 (kernel) (2010-09-06) 2 commits
 + Add tests (296b3ae)
 + Let an 8-tuple given as ip_address() for gen_tcp/gen_udp/gen_sctp
imply 'inet6' (8e415cb)

* ta/asn1-test-compile-options (asn1) (2010-04-24) 1 commit
 + Fix asn1_SUITE test_compile_options:verbose/1 (da97a82)

* ta/asn1ct-fix-whitespace (asn1) (2010-07-12) 1 commit
 + asn1ct: change unusual whitespace char from 0xA0 to 0x20 (c43d20b)

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[New topics]

* ta/eliminate-warnings (edoc, hipe, mnesia) (2010-09-12) 3 commits
 - mnesia: Do not auto-import error/2 (4276689)
 - hipe: Do not auto-import min/2 and max/2 (41693be)
 - edoc: Do not auto-import error/1 (fa669f5)

* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel) (2010-09-06) 1 commit
 - Implement file:sendfile/4 and file:sendfile/2 (0c0514e)

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[Stalled]

* er/ei-decode_msg (erl_interface) (2010-03-11) 1 commit
 - Add function to decode distribution header (864091a)

Needs documentation and test cases.

Action expected from: Topic author

* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2010-09-05) 5 commits
 - Use erlang:process_info(Pid, links) to determine if gen_stream
managed worker processes are leaked (b2386df)
 - Move gen_stream internal process test to after termination of
gen_stream parent (f1d8a97)
 - Add calls to code loader in every test to verify code loader still
running (ac6cbba)
 - Track gen_stream processes directly for accurate test results (38a4083)
 - Patch dev to reproduce jn/gen_stream (7694a74)

 . Add new gen_stream behaviour for efficiently consuming serial
streams (65f3db8)

This topic branch has a failing test case:

shell_SUITE:start_restricted_from_shell;
    We have now tested with and without this topic branch and when
    it is present that test case fails. We consider it proved
    to be guilty. The test case does not fail when run standalone
    so it seems to be tricky... Also, some of its own test cases
    fail sporadicly.

Action expected from: Topic author.

* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-02-14) 3 commits
 - squash! eliminate dialyzer warning (434e2ca)
 - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d)
 - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437)

Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer
review of the implementation.

Action expected from: Björn Gustavsson (the reviewer)

* kr/gs-browser (gs) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 - Change lib/gs/src/tool_utils.erl to select multiple browsers other
than Netscape (802d159)

This topic branch introduces a new call to the deprecated regexp module.

Action expected from: Topic author or anyone else with an interest to
advance the topic

* sf/erts_de_busy_limit (erts) (2010-06-08) 1 commit
 - Add flag-based setting for 'erts_de_busy_limit' constant (67ed9ab)

This topic branch has multiple issues described in this email:

http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:1303:201008:ldciadjdmjednikemjch

Action expected from: Topic author.

* uw/epmd-fullnames (kernel) (2010-05-07) 1 commit
 . Allow the erlang nodename host part to differ from the hostname (e0774be)

This topic branch needs to be rebased and the conflicts resolved.

This topic branch also needs documentation and test cases.

We are likely to approve the branch for graduation if those issues
are fixed.

Action expected from: Topic author.

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[Cooking]

* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-03-15) 6 commits
 - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (290bb30)
 - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (d505c72)
 - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (df0669e)
 - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (9e3a3f0)
 - Disable native code if on_load is used (2446475)
 - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (eed30d2)

This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test
cases and is never intended to graduate.

* gc/gen-format-status-improvements (stdlib) (2010-06-12) 1 commit
 - Fix format_status bug for unregistered gen_event processes (95ed86f)

* jf/run_erl-disable-flow-control (erts) (2010-03-05) 1 commit
 - Teach run_erl RUN_ERL_DISABLE_FLOWCNTRL for disabling flow control (d0775cd)

* km/pool_connect-to-running-nodes (stdlib) (2010-09-02) 1 commit
 - Change pool module to attempt to attach to nodes that are already
running (a9f4cbc)

* ml/add-os-pid-to-port-info (erts) (2010-08-19) 1 commit
 - Extend erlang:port_info/1,2 to show the OS pid of a spawned process (b2d85bf)

* pg/honor-start-type-in-rel-files (sasl) (2010-06-06) 1 commit
 - Honor start type in .rel files when building relup files (7599900)

* rt/solaris-pty-handling-fixes (erts) (2010-08-06) 2 commits
 - Add corrected support for Solaris PTYs to run_erl (2ba4818)
 - Fix a typo that leads to syntax errors with DEBUG defined in
run_erl (edfe4b9)

* sa/callback-attr (compiler, inets, kernel, otp, stdlib) (2010-06-08) 7 commits
 - Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (eea750e)
 - Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (d03554c)
 - Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly
deprecated comments (3d0bf65)
 - Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (b131583)
 - Update primary bootstrap (b64ffe6)
 - Automatical generation of 'behaviour_info' function from
'-callback' attributes (879d6fc)
 - Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (d63a448)

* sb/make-files-like-erlc (tools) (2010-05-18) 1 commit
 - Change make:files to behave more like erlc (5e9d051)

* sv/epmd-check-listen (erts) (2010-07-14) 1 commit
 - check return value of epmd server listen() call (c5c8baa)

* ta/asn1-reporting (asn1) (2010-04-23) 1 commit
 - asn1ct: Make formatting of errors and warnings consistent (93face2)

* ta/ensure-dot-ssh-exists (ssh) (2010-09-03) 1 commit
 - ssh: ensure ~/.ssh exists (5bc5325)

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB