[erlang-patches] What's cooking in erlang/otp (2011-10-07)

[Henrik Nord]

Read 
https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Branches
and  
https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Submitting-patches

New Branching strategy short version:

The branch 'master' will be the upcoming major release (e.g. R15).
Branch from this to submit patches for the next major release.
(New features and major changes)

New branch 'maint' will be introduced AFTER R15, and will be the next maintenance release (e.g. R15B01) 
Branch from this to submit patches for the next maintenance release.
(Bug fixes and minor changes)


The 'pu' branch will be based on 'master' and we will later add a 'maint-pu' for the 'maint' branch.

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[Graduated]

* hl/beam_disasm-no_attri_chunk (compiler) (2011-07-22) 1 commit
 + beam_disasm: Handle stripped BEAM files (347dfb0)

* pd/ttb-cleanup (observer, runtime_tools) (2011-08-25) 38 commits
 + Support for stopped and resumed tracing. (7e2c876)
 + More robust testing of tracing with 'local' option. (1924817)
 + Print path to logs dir unless nofetch option specified. (f7dc3bf)
 + Removed unused option to send realtime trace to erlide. (224f432)
 + Documented global state when applying formatting function to trace logs. (584eec8)
 + Test for: (BUGFIX) Error with ip tracing to wrap sets. (7f2123b)
 + Stop option 'return' changed to 'return_fetch_dir' (b610184)
 + update format function's description (e598660)
 + It is safe to change cwd on control node or remote nodes while tracing (2d319d3)
 + fixed documentation (4e3b8cc)
 + additional tests for ttb module (da2e84e)
 + new tests for ttb module (871839b)

* rc/edoc-0.7.9 (edoc) (2011-09-25) 6 commits
 + bumped revision (df2063c)
 + removed some never-matching clauses reported by dialyzer (823f018)
 + Fix macro expansion in comments following Erlang types (530d3b1)
 + URI-escape bytes as two hex digits always (reported by Alfonso De Gregorio) (10f7682)
 + updated author e-mail (766d0f0)
 + recognize some more URI schemas in wiki text, in particular https (d11d6ac)

* rc/eunit-2.2.1 (eunit) (2011-09-23) 4 commits
 + removed some never-matching clauses reported by dialyzer (c78dae0)
 + updated author e-mails and homepages (fde5038)
 + removed cvs keywords from files (33b9fe2)
 + removed files that should not be checked in (756f301)

* sa/dialyzer-bug-fixes (dialyzer, hipe, typer) (2011-09-28) 4 commits
 + Fix typer's crash for nonexisting files (e4d5a20)
 + Remove unused macro (39a3e0a)
 + Decrease tuple arity limit (7fc2604)
 + Fix bug in dataflow (e36b171)

* va/http-win-dir-traversal (inets) (2011-08-26) 1 commit
 + Fix httpd directory traversal on Windows (a936795)

* sa/callback-attr (compiler, inets, kernel, otp, stdlib) (2010-06-08) 8 commits
 . Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (a54866b)
 . Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (e14c3c6)
 . Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly deprecated comments (3eaa5a9)
 . Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (b606232)
 . Update primary bootstrap (fbf331d)
 . Update the documentation with information on the callback attribute (e6a152e)
 . Automatically generate 'behaviour_info' function from '-callback' attributes (c1aa398)
 . Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (1837121)

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[New topics]

* fm/process_info_doc_fix (erts) (2011-09-20) 1 commit
 - Fix documentation for erlang:process_flag/2 (e88a46d)

* gs/mod_log-fix (inets) (2011-09-24) 1 commit
 - Fix logging of content length in mod_log (166f4cc)

* mh/run_erl-exit-status (erts) (2011-09-02) 1 commit
 - run_erl.c: propagate exit status from child process (29364cf)

* rj/fix-debugger-msgs (debugger) (2011-09-25) 2 commits
 - Fixes "OK" spelling in debugger messages and variables (808629d)
 - Fixes debugger message with wx (e43aa85)

* rj/fix-erlang-doc-style (erts) (2011-09-26) 1 commit
 - Fixes module erlang doc style: option description (283e3ab)

* rj/fix-net_kernel-doc (kernel) (2011-09-28) 1 commit
 - Fixes net_kernel:get_net_ticktime() doc (bfa676a)

* rj/fix-remove-exec-bit (asn1, common_test, debugger, dialyzer, docbuilder, erts, hipe, orber, otp, percept, public_key, sasl, snmp, ssh, wx, xmerl) (2011-09-24) 3 commits
 - Removes exec bit from files: info files, dat, bat (25d7dee)
 - Removes exec bit from files related to: XML, make, C (b414881)
 - Removes exec bit from: erl, hrl, xml, html, asn, gif, xpm (75a1021)

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[Stalled]

* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2011-04-15) 2 commits
 - Update gen_stream tests to conform with common_test standard (ce84daf)
 - Add gen_stream behaviour (6a089a4)

Action expected from: OTP-Team

* bw/efile_exists (erts) (2010-10-07) 1 commit
 - prim_file:exists/{1,2} which is lightweight file existence check (7203932)

Action expected from: Topic author

* fm/posix-fallocate (erts, kernel) (2010-12-28) 1 commit
 - Added file:allocate/2 (682f39a)

Action expected from: Topic author

* tn/inet_drv-fix (erts) (2011-04-08) 1 commit
 - Use libdlpi to get physical address (e360563)

Action expected from: Topic author

* pr/mnesia_frag_hash (mnesia) (2011-04-27) 2 commits
 - add mnesia_frag_hash test (1d6762d)
 - Reduce calls to phash in key_to_frag_number (67a20c0)

Action expected from: Topic author


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[Cooking]

* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, kernel) (2010-03-15) 5 commits
 - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (0198ee2)
 - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (41638df)
 - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (fce2b79)
 - Disable native code if on_load is used (c8994f2)
 - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (531e5d9)

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

* cf/simple_one_for_one_shutdown (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 3 commits
 - Explain how dynamic child processes are stopped (0473132)
 - Stack errors when dynamic children are stopped (42c581d)
 - Explicitly kill dynamic children in supervisors (4775947)

* cf/supervisor_shutdown_infinity (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 2 commits
 - Add a warning to docs about workers' shutdown strategy (76cc98d)
 - Allow an infinite timeout to shutdown worker processes (9f6552d)

* hl/fix-ms_transform-scope-warn (stdlib) (2011-08-26) 1 commit
 - ms_transform: Fix incorrect `variable shadowed' warnings (29610af)

* mh/create_cookie_error_msg (kernel) (2011-09-15) 1 commit
 - Specify file name and error on create_cookie failure (9319587)

* pg/fix-cover-leftover-down-msg (tools) (2011-08-29) 1 commit
 - [cover]fix leftover {'DOWN', ..} msg in callers queue (cc087c3)

* rc/remote-shell-completion (kernel) (2010-10-22) 1 commit
 - make tab completion work in remote shells (73d1959)

* rj/fix-doctypos (kernel, otp) (2011-09-19) 3 commits
 - Adds missing spaces in Reference Manual in distributed section (0ac642f)
 - Fixes typo in heart doc, adds missing parenthesis (60ed9f9)
 - Fixes typo in Reference Manual in macros section (63c101d)

* ta/erl_prim_loader-primary_archive-reloading (erts, stdlib) (2011-09-01) 1 commit
 - [erts,stdlib] fix escript/primary archive reloading (e88bfb7)

* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel) (2011-01-13) 1 commit
 - Implement file:sendfile (e362bb2)

* ta/nif-variadic-funs (erts) (2011-05-13) 1 commit
 - erts: convert variadic nif funs into inline funs (9a1f9b6)

* fm/enif_is_number (erts) (2011-06-08) 1 commit
 - Add NIF function enif_is_number (8db78b0)

* ms/epmd-IPv6-node-reg (erts, kernel) (2011-06-03) 1 commit
 - epmd: support IPv6 node registration (5523b21)

* nox/xmerl-namespace-axis (xmerl) (2010-12-07) 12 commits
 . Implement namespace axis (27d791f)
 . Add `#xmlPI` support to xmerl_xpath:write_node/1 (75e67f5)
 . Fix processing-instruction(name?) (f05e78b)
 . Fix path filters (610df56)
 . Support more top-level primary expressions (770d6d9)
 . Accumulate comments in element nodes (e5b6b3a)
 . Add `default_attrs` option (18584c5)
 . Allow whole documents to be returned (aef3dea)
 . Track parents and namespace in `#xmlAttribute` nodes (dc9b220)
 . Track parents in `#xmlPI` nodes (5095331)
 . Set `vsn` field in `#xmlDecl` record (d712331)
 . Fix namespace-conformance constraints (e062270)

* rc/epp-include-path-fix (stdlib) (2011-06-14) 1 commit
 - Make epp search directory of current file first when including another file (3001e9d)

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[Dropped]


* rj/typer-fix-delete (typer) (2011-09-24) 1 commit
 . Fixes TypEr crash when doing old files cleanup (189d095)
 
 Adressed by Kostis/Stavros in sa/dialyzer-bug-fixes