[erlang-patches] Fixed gen_stream patch now available

[Niclas Axelsson]

On 01/31/2011 07:12 PM, jay@REDACTED wrote:
> With special thanks to Tuncer for the git help, I now have a clean
> commit of gen_stream with a fix for the shell_SUITE error.  The
> problem that I discovered was there were some leaked internal
> processes which were causing c:i() to fail when listing information
> about active processes.  I have added calls to c:i() in the test suite
> to ensure that the problem doesn't recur.
>
> Since I can't directly observe the shell_SUITE error that you see,
> there may be other issues that remain but a few days of tests
> should bear out any unresolved errors.
>
>
> git fetch git://github.com/jaynel/otp.git gen_stream
>
>
>
> commit a2423e4d428151d895ba003183421a14eefbde48
> Author: Jay Nelson<jay@REDACTED>
> Date:   Mon Jan 31 09:42:02 2011 -0800
>
>      Add gen_stream behaviour
>
>      This is a new OTP behaviour designed to serve serial streams
>      as an ordered sequence of "blocks" of data.  The stream is
>      loaded concurrently to a process-striped internal buffer so
>      that slow streams such as disk files can be efficiently
>      delivered. The internal buffering can be massaged by
>      supplying a transform function to manipulate the data blocks
>      between the source and the internal buffers to perform
>      such tasks as chopping lines of text, compressing /
>      decompressing or encrypting / unencrypting.
>
>      The abstraction also allows the creation of functionally
>      generated streams and infinite streams.  Both of these
>      cases allow for continuous streaming without a large
>      memory footprint.
>
>      This patch includes a new module in stdlib (gen_stream.erl),
>      a new test suite (gen_stream_SUITE.erl) and a new page in
>      the documentation (gen_stream.xml).
>
>
> jay
>
>
>
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Thanks Jay.

I've updated your branch in 'pu'. If there's testcases that fails due to 
your
branch I will let you know :-).

Regards,
Niclas Axelsson, Erlang/OTP