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| 2 | DIM version 19.17 Release Notes
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| 4 | Notes 1 and 2 for Unix Users only
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| 5 | NOTE 1: In order to "make" DIM two environment variables should be set:
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| 6 | OS = one of {HP-UX, AIX, OSF1, Solaris, SunOS, LynxOS, Linux, Darwin}
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| 7 | DIMDIR = the path name of DIM's top level directory
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| 8 | The user should then go to DIM's top level directory and do:
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| 9 | > source .setup
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| 10 | > gmake all
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| 11 | Or, if there is no support for C++ on the machine:
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| 12 | > gmake CPP=no all
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| 13 |
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| 14 | NOTE 2: The Name Server (Dns), DID, servers and clients (if running in
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| 15 | background) should be started whith the output redirected to a
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| 16 | logfile ex:
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| 17 | Dns </dev/null >& dns.log &
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| 18 |
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| 19 | NOTE 3: The Version Number service provided by servers is now set to 1917.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | 11/03/2011
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| 22 | Changes for version 19.17:
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| 23 | - The TCPIP "listen" backlog for a server was increased for all servers (including the DNS)
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| 24 | from 16 to the constant SOMAXCONN (128 on Linux at the moment, 200 on Windows ?)
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| 25 | - After a "fork" the DIM initialization sequence guided by semaphores was not correctly
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| 26 | handled, this made the forked children hang and not respond to DIM anymore - fixed.
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| 27 |
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| 28 |
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| 29 | 23/02/2011
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| 30 | Changes for version 19.16:
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| 31 | - DimServer::stop() did not correctly clear the ServerName - fixed.
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| 32 | - The Linux DID now prints the DNS it is connected to in the title bar.
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| 33 |
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| 34 |
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| 35 | 20/12/2010
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| 36 | Changes for version 19.15:
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| 37 | - Still fixing dis_stop_serving():
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| 38 | - The DNS sometimes gets a remove service message from a server, after the server has
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| 39 | closed the connection, this was not handled properly - fixed.
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| 40 | - Fixed yet another detail (variable not cleared) in the thread handling at dis_stop_serving().
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| 41 | - dtq.c now clears all timer_queues at dis_stop_serving()
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| 42 | - Added some protections in case of closed connections.
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| 43 |
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| 44 |
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| 45 | 10/12/2010
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| 46 | Changes for version 19.14:
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| 47 | - Still fixing dis_stop_serving():
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| 48 | - Adedd pthread_join in linux to wait for threads to die
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| 49 | - the following dis_start_serving() would not reconnect to the DNS if the DNS connection
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| 50 | was pending (i.e. the DNS was stopped or restarted)
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| 51 |
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| 52 |
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| 53 | 06/12/2010
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| 54 | Changes for version 19.13:
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| 55 | - Fixed a few compiler warnings in dis.c
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| 56 | - Added #ifndef PXI around some Windows setPriority calls
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| 57 | - dis_stop_serving() did not completely clean-up DIM so that another dis_start_serving()
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| 58 | could be done properly after for example a "fork()". Fixed.
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| 59 |
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| 60 |
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| 61 | 20/09/2010
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| 62 | Changes for version 19.12:
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| 63 | - Fixed a bug added when removing warnings in v19r10 (dis.c and dns.c).
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| 64 |
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| 65 |
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| 66 | 07/06/2010
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| 67 | Changes for version 19.11:
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| 68 | - Added some protections in update_service() in order to try to solve a DIP issue.
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| 69 | (related to very frequent updates of the same service in different threads)
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| 70 | - Added the possibility of defining timeouts for:
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| 71 | - DimBrowser::getServices
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| 72 | - DimBrowser::getServers
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| 73 | - DimBrowser::getServerServices
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| 74 | - DimBrowser::getServerClients
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| 75 | - Added the possibility of retrieving the time a command arrived:
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| 76 | - int dis_get_timestamp(int service_id, int *secs, int *millisecs) in C
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| 77 | - int DimCommand::getTimestamp() and int DimCommand::getTimestampMillisecs() in C++
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| 78 | - Added a "const" keyword to the "char *format" parameter in the constructors of
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| 79 | - DimService and DimCommand
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| 80 | - Added a call DimCommand::hasNext(), can be used when commands are queued.
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| 81 | - Fixed a memory leak when using DimService::setData and then dynamically deleting the
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| 82 | DimService
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| 83 |
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| 84 |
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| 85 | 17/02/2010
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| 86 | Changes for version 19.10:
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| 87 | - Fixed a bug in the DNS related to the latest change (browsing for a single service name)
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| 88 | The DNS could crash when killing a server.
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| 89 | - Removed some compilation warnings
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| 90 |
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| 91 |
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| 92 | 04/01/2010
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| 93 | Changes for version 19.09:
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| 94 | - Created two new functions: dis_set_debug_on() and dis_set_debug_off(), these
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| 95 | enable or disable printing a message per service update
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| 96 | - Tried to protect against:
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| 97 | - a service being deleted from the server while it is being updated
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| 98 | - a client unsubscribing from a service while it is being updated.
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| 99 | - Optimized the DNS when browsing for a service search pattern without wildcards
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| 100 | (i.e. browsing for a single service name)
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| 101 |
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| 102 |
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| 103 | 13/11/2009
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| 104 | Changes for version 19.08:
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| 105 | - Since version v18r4 where dim_wait() was modified, dim_wait could hang in windows if
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| 106 | the wake_up event was triggered before dim_wait was called. Could affect smi++.
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| 107 | Fixed.
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| 108 | - Fixed a compilation bug in dis.c that affected some platforms.
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| 109 |
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| 110 |
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| 111 | 30/10/2009
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| 112 | Changes for version 19.07:
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| 113 | - Some more bugs related to being able to publish to more that one DNS fixed.
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| 114 |
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| 115 |
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| 116 | 28/10/2009
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| 117 | Changes for version 19.06:
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| 118 | - When opening DNS connections, when the DNS is not there, from a process that is at the
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| 119 | same time a client and a server only one pending connection was used now two separate
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| 120 | ones are created.
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| 121 | - Tried to fix a few more problems related to dis_stop_serving...
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| 122 |
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| 123 |
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| 124 | 26/10/2009
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| 125 | Changes for version 19.05:
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| 126 | - dis_stop_serving had stopped working in version 19.4. So all servers that undeclared
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| 127 | all services and then tried to re-declare new ones would fail (corrupted server name).
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| 128 | Affected in particular the DimBridge
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| 129 |
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| 130 |
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| 131 | 27/08/2009
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| 132 | Changes for version 19.04:
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| 133 | - Added the following functions:
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| 134 | Server part:
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| 135 | C - dis_get_n_clients(int service_id)
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| 136 | C++ - int DimService::getNClients()
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| 137 | Client part (C++ only):
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| 138 | DimClient::setNoDataCopy()
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| 139 | This will prevent any data copy in the client and the user should make
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| 140 | sure that the data received from DIM is not used outside the callback
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| 141 | in order to benefir from this feature.
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| 142 | - Fixed the Java DIM Jar file, it was wrong in the previous version.
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| 143 |
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| 144 |
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| 145 | 31/07/2009
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| 146 | Changes for version 19.03:
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| 147 | - Removed some more compilation warnings.
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| 148 | - Fixed a bug in the DNS. The mechanism for retrieving the "SERVER_LIST" when
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| 149 | some server names were longer that 35 characters was very slow.
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| 150 |
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| 151 |
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| 152 | 06/07/2009
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| 153 | Changes for version 19.02:
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| 154 | - Fixed a bug in the server part handling of RPCs, it created a memory leak.
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| 155 | It was using a separate thread to handle timeouts and there is no safe way to
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| 156 | kill a thread from outside. Fixed.
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| 157 | - the function dim_stop_thread() is now obsolete.
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| 158 | - Added the possibility to change the send and receive buffer sizes:
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| 159 | - int dim_set_write_buffer_size(int size)
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| 160 | - int dim_get_write_buffer_size()
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| 161 | - int dim_set_read_buffer_size(int size)
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| 162 | - int dim_get_read_buffer_size()
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| 163 | The default (and minimum) is 16384 bytes.
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| 164 | These calls should be done before any other DIM calls.
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| 165 | - Fixed a bug in the Java DimBrowser class (the format was not returned correctly)
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| 166 |
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| 167 | 04/05/2009
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| 168 | Changes for version 19.01:
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| 169 | - A server can now publish to more than one DNS.
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| 170 | To use an extra DNS:
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| 171 | - in "C":
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| 172 | long dnsid;
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| 173 | char extra_dns[128];
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| 174 | ...
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| 175 | dim_get_env_var("EXTRA_DNS_NODE", extra_dns, sizeof(extra_dns));
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| 176 | dnsid = dis_add_dns(extra_dns,0);
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| 177 | sprintf(name1,"NewService%d",i);
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| 178 | dis_add_service_dns(dnsid, name1, "I", &NewData, sizeof(NewData),
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| 179 | (void *)0, 0 );
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| 180 | dis_start_serving_dns(dnsid, "xx_new");
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| 181 |
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| 182 | - in C++:
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| 183 | DimServerDns *newDns;
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| 184 | char *extraDns = 0;
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| 185 | DimService *new_servint;
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| 186 | ...
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| 187 | extraDns = DimUtil::getEnvVar("EXTRA_DNS_NODE");
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| 188 | if(extraDns)
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| 189 | newDns = new DimServerDns(extraDns, 0, "new_TEST");
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| 190 | ...
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| 191 | if(extraDns)
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| 192 | new_servint = new DimService(newDns, "new_TEST/INTVAL",ival);
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| 193 |
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| 194 | - Removed all warnings from DIM sources so that it can be compiled with -Wall -Wextra on Linux
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| 195 | - Changed the makefiles so that the default on Linux is now 64 bits.
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| 196 | - The flag 32BITS=yes can be added in order to generate 32 bit code
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| 197 |
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| 198 |
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| 199 | 26/02/2009
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| 200 | Changes for version 18.05:
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| 201 | - Made the callback for "DIS_DNS/SERVER_LIST" uninterruptible, so that two clients subscribing
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| 202 | would not get mixed up answers.
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| 203 | - The same for "<server>/SERVICE_LIST"
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| 204 | - Tryied to fix a DNS crash, introduced in v18r4 by releasing the connection when "informing clients".
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| 205 | - removed some "//" comments in "C"
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| 206 |
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| 207 |
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| 208 | 20/02/2009
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| 209 | Changes for version 18.04:
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| 210 | - Changed the dim_wait() mechanism, so that it works for several threads in parallel:
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| 211 | - On Linux it was based on POSIX semaphores now it is based on POSIX "condition
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| 212 | variables"
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| 213 | - On Windows it was based on "Auto Reset Events" now it uses "Manual Resel "Events"
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| 214 | - The DNS should now correctly update the "DIS_DNS/SERVER_LIST" service. It used to report
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| 215 | a new server, even when the services already existed and the server was killed by the DNS.
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| 216 | (And never report it killed). It also didn't report correctly when a server went out of "ERROR"
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| 217 | (this is reported as a "+" as for a new server).
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| 218 |
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| 219 |
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| 220 | 05/02/2009
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| 221 | Changes for version 18.03:
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| 222 | - The list of registered services in a server could get corrupted in some rare cases
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| 223 | making the server crash - fixed.
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| 224 | - If the DNS couldn't talk to a client it could sometimes hang - fixed.
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| 225 | - Java client modifications:
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| 226 | - DimUpdatedInfo was not working correctly - fixed in dim_jni.c.
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| 227 | - Implemented DimRpcInfo
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| 228 | - Changed the DimBroser class to use DimRpcInfo.
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| 229 | - Added a jdim.jar file in the jdim/classes directory of the DIM distribution
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| 230 |
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| 231 |
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| 232 | 15/01/2009
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| 233 | Changes for version 18.02:
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| 234 | - Added the following functions:
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| 235 | - C++ Client
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| 236 | - int DimClient.getServerPid()
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| 237 | - Java Client
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| 238 | - int DimClient.getServerPid()
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| 239 | - String[] DimBrowser.getServers()
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| 240 | - String DimBrowser.getServerNode(String server)
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| 241 | - int DimBrowser.getServerPid(String server)
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| 242 |
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| 243 |
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| 244 | 09/01/2009
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| 245 | Changes for version 18.01:
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| 246 | - Added in the distribution the Visual Studio 8 dlls and manifest. Otherwise
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| 247 | it would not work on most PCs.
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| 248 |
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| 249 |
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| 250 | 03/12/2008
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| 251 | Changes for version 18.00:
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| 252 | - The Windows execulables and libraries are now built using Visual Studio 8
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| 253 | - Some changes added by GSI mainly in the Java Native Interface
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| 254 |
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| 255 |
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| 256 | 06/11/2008
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| 257 | Changes for version 17.12:
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| 258 | - Client functionality:
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| 259 | - Added a new function dic_stop(), to close anything related to DIM
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| 260 | for a client
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| 261 | - Added the function dic_get_server_pid(). Similar to dic_get_server().
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| 262 | Can be executed in a callback to retrieve the pid of the current server
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| 263 | - DimBrowser Class:
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| 264 | - DimBrowser::getServices() used to create and destroy the DimRpc connection
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| 265 | to the Dns every time it was called. This was heavy if called in a loop.
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| 266 | Now the connection is maintained until the DimBrowser itself is destroyed.
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| 267 | - A new method DimBrowser::getNextServer(char *&server, char *&node, int *pid)
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| 268 | has been created. similar to the previous one but returns also the server pid.
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| 269 | - DNS
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| 270 | - The DNS was still doing some blocking write calls to servers or clients.
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| 271 | Now all write calls have a timeout and can not block forever.
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| 272 | - Linux DID
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| 273 | - The "Subscribe" button was subscribing to services with update rate of 10 seconds.
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| 274 | This was misleading, the users could think the server was calling update_service
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| 275 | when it wasn't.
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| 276 | Now there are two Subscribe buttons ("on change" or "Update rate of 10 seconds").
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| 277 | - DimDridge
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| 278 | - Accepts an extra flag "-copy" which provokes an internal copy of the data.
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| 279 |
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| 280 |
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| 281 | 08/09/2008
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| 282 | Changes for version 17.11:
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| 283 | - Some DIM Processes, servers or clients could enter a loop taking 100 % CPU
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| 284 | time in some rare occasions, fixed.
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| 285 | - Added some protections when removing services in the DimBridge.
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| 286 |
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| 287 |
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| 288 | 30/08/2008
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| 289 | Changes for version 17.10:
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| 290 | - Some DIM Processes, servers or clients would not reconnect when the DNS was
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| 291 | restarted. Fixed two cause:
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| 292 | - Some processes in Linux were stuck reading from the DNS socket
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| 293 | - Some others "forgot" to set a timer under very special conditions
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| 294 | - Changed some of the DNS debug messages to be more explicit.
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| 295 |
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| 296 |
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| 297 | 21/07/2008
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| 298 | Changes for version 17.09:
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| 299 | - DIM error messages were not being flushed when the output was redirected
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| 300 | to a logfile, fixed.
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| 301 |
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| 302 |
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| 303 | 18/07/2008
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| 304 | Changes for version 17.08:
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| 305 | - Sometimes a server or a client could do a read on a sockect that had just
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| 306 | been closed which left them hanging forever - fixed.
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| 307 |
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| 308 |
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| 309 | 01/07/2008
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| 310 | Changes for version 17.07:
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| 311 | - The DimTimer was sometimes not started when the constructor was called
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| 312 | with a time argument.
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| 313 | - Clients could not connect to more than 1024 servers - fixed.
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| 314 | (if the machine allows more than 1024 connections)
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| 315 |
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| 316 |
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| 317 | 30/06/2008
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| 318 | Changes for version 17.06:
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| 319 | - Corrected the makefile for Darwin, now the number of accepted connections is
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| 320 | increased to 8192 only for Linux.
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| 321 | - Fixed a bug in the DimTimer, it used to accept to be re-started, but then crashed
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| 322 | at destruction time if not stopped the same number of times. Now it can not be
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| 323 | re-started.
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| 324 | - The Dns used to ask servers to re-register at regular intervals when they were not
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| 325 | sending their watchdog messages (i.e. they were in "ERROR", red in DID). Now the
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| 326 | DNS only asks once (unless they answer). This could cause the DNS to hang if
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| 327 | servers were in ERROR for a long time.
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| 328 | - The Dns now accepts a command line parameter: -d to print debug messages.
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| 329 | - The clients were not handling properly the case when they could contact the DNS
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| 330 | but then they could not contact the server that the DNS gave them (either because
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| 331 | of a firewall or because the server run on an inaccessible network). In this case
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| 332 | the clients would timeout trying to contact the server for each service and kept
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| 333 | asking the DNS the server coordinates over and over again. Now the clients keep
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| 334 | a list on unreacheable servers, so they don't try to contact the server for each
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| 335 | service and only ask the DNS again with an increasing interval that goes from 10
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| 336 | seconds to 2 minutes maximum.
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| 337 | - The server now issues an error message if the format string is too long.
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| 338 | - Linux DID
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| 339 | - Removed the command "Kill ALL Servers", it was too dangerous
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| 340 | - Now the list of nodes in "View Servers by Node" is in alphabetical order and
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| 341 | in lowercase.
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| 342 |
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| 343 |
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| 344 | 30/04/2008
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| 345 | Changes for version 17.05:
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| 346 | - In Linux in some cases a SIGPIPE was generated. Normally the DIM library sets
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| 347 | the behaviour of SIGPIPE to ignored, but if another library or main program
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| 348 | changes the SIGPIPE behaviour, then the application could exit when the SIGPIPE
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| 349 | was generated. Fixed - on Linux now the function send with flag MSG_NOSIGNAL
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| 350 | is used in oder to avoid generating SIGPIPE.
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| 351 |
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| 352 |
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| 353 |
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| 354 | 4/04/2008
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| 355 | Changes for version 17.04:
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| 356 | - Sometimes processes (servers or clients) would hang when the DNS was restarted.
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| 357 | This was due to a strange (Windows?) feature, by which a connect could succeed
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| 358 | after a connection was closed (and reported) on the other side. Fixed.
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| 359 |
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| 360 |
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| 361 |
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| 362 | 27/03/2008
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| 363 | Changes for version 17.03:
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| 364 | - Can now make DID for 64 bits by making DIM using:
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| 365 | gmake X64=yes all
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| 366 | - Increased the size of the Hash tables for the servers and the DNS.
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| 367 |
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| 368 |
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| 369 |
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| 370 | 20/02/2008
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| 371 | Changes for version 17.02:
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| 372 | - Fixed the Java DimTimer - stop() didn't work
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| 373 | Required changing dim_jni.c as well as the java part
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| 374 | - Fixed DIM for Darwin - had stopped working
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| 375 |
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| 376 |
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| 377 |
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| 378 | 20/01/2008
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| 379 | Changes for version 17.01:
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| 380 | - The Java API now works on 64 bit machines, Thanks to Joern Adamczewski.
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| 381 | Please use:
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| 382 | gmake JDIM=yes all
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| 383 | - Linux executables are now compiled/linked on slc4 (32 bits).
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| 384 | - Big changes in the DimRpcs both client and server part. Tere were bugs
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| 385 | related to the handling of timeouts.
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| 386 | Unfortunatelly all applications using RPCs need to be re-linked.
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| 387 |
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| 389 |
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| 390 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 391 | Previous version history:
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| 392 |
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| 393 | 07/12/2007
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| 394 | Changes for version 16.14:
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| 395 | - Now by default All DIM processes are ready to accept up to 8192 connections, both
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| 396 | in Linux and Windows. Although in Linux for this to be effective the machine system
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| 397 | limits must allow more than 1024 descriptors/open files per process.
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| 398 | - Fixed a little memory leak in tokenstring.cxx
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| 399 | - And a little compilation bug for some platforms in tcpip.c
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| 400 |
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| 401 |
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| 402 | 15/05/2007
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| 403 | Changes for version 16.13:
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| 404 | - If DIM_HOST_NODE is defined when starting up a server, a DIM client will now try
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| 405 | two network interfaces in order to talk to that server and only give up if they both
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| 406 | fail. First it will try the ip name or ip address specified by the server using
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| 407 | DIM_HOST_NODE, if that fails it will try the ip address of the default interface
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| 408 | retrieved by the server using gethostname (and gethostbyname).
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| 409 | The changes basically affect the case in which the DIM_HOST_NODE given to the servers
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| 410 | is specified as IP address instad of an IP name. Otherwise this mechanism was already
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| 411 | working.
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| 412 |
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| 413 |
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| 414 | 3/05/2007
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| 415 | Changes for version 16.12:
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| 416 | - The Java version did not exit properly when main() terminated - fixed.
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| 417 |
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| 418 |
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| 419 | 25/04/2007
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| 420 | Changes for version 16.11:
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| 421 | - On Linux the timeout to detect a lost connections (unplugged ethernet cable
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| 422 | or machine reboot) was too long, around 15 minutes - Fixed.
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| 423 | On Linux the KEEPALIVE feature is now used instead of a regular socket write,
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| 424 | all other platforms should work as before.
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| 425 |
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| 426 |
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| 427 | 21/02/2007
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| 428 | Changes for version 16.10:
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| 429 | - Found a bug in dis_stop_serving: one socket connection was not closed - fixed.
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| 430 | - Implemented a new environment variable for the DNS: DIM_DNS_ACCEPTED_NODES
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| 431 | Can receive a list on nodes or domains separated by commas.
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| 432 | If the DNS receives a connection from a node not in this list, it will
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| 433 | reject it and kill the server or client requesting it.
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| 434 | - Fixed some C++ warnings.
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| 435 |
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| 436 |
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| 437 | 19/01/2007
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| 438 | Changes for version 16.9:
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| 439 | - The modifications done in version 16.8 have introduced a bug:
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| 440 | - DIM servers would not behave properly (exit) when receiving a kill command
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| 441 | from the DNS (for duplicated services, not allowed host names or manual "kill")
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| 442 | This is now fixed.
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| 443 |
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| 444 |
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| 445 | 30/10/2006
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| 446 | Changes for version 16.8:
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| 447 | - Modified dis_stop_serving() and DimServer::stop() to completely stop DIM:
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| 448 | - Stop also the DIM threads.
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| 449 | - Release all allocated memory
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| 450 | - Allow a different port number when re-starting.
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| 451 |
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| 452 |
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| 453 | 11/07/2006
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| 454 | Changes for version 16.7:
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| 455 | - Prepared for increasing the number of open connections per process
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| 456 | (On Linux still requires changing some parameters and recompiling the Dns)
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| 457 | - Fixed one error and several warnings for gcc 4.
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| 458 |
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| 459 |
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| 460 | 11/05/2006
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| 461 | Changes for version 16.6:
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| 462 | - Sometimes a server or client would crash while exiting if the DNS was not running.
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| 463 | Fixed.
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| 464 | - Fixed the reporting of some ERROR messages on Windows (used to report error "0")
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| 465 | - Allowed dim_send_command to receive instead of -dns <node_name>
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| 466 | -dns <node_name>[:<port_number>]
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| 467 |
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| 468 |
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| 469 | 01/05/2006
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| 470 | Changes for version 16.5:
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| 471 | - Big Spring Cleanup. Removed most warnings. Can now be compiled on
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| 472 | Windows with Warning Level 3 and on Linux with -Wall
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| 473 | (still not working for -ansi -pedantic...)
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| 474 | - When trying to access a server in a different network (i.e. not reacheable)
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| 475 | a client (for example DID) would take very very long to timeout - fixed.
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| 476 | - Added two new sets of functions that allow setting the DIM_DNS_NODE separately
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| 477 | for a server and a client in the same process:
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| 478 | - int dis_set_dns_node(char *node)
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| 479 | - int dis_get_dns_node(char *node)
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| 480 | - int dis_set_dns_port(int port)
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| 481 | - int dis_get_dns_port()
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| 482 |
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| 483 | - int dic_set_dns_node(char *node)
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| 484 | - int dic_get_dns_node(char *node)
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| 485 | - int dic_set_dns_port(int port)
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| 486 | - int dic_get_dns_port()
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| 487 | These routines should be used instead of the equivalent ones starting with "dim_"
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| 488 | since these set the same DIM_DNS_NODE/port for both Server and client parts of a
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| 489 | process.
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| 490 | - Adapted the C++ equivalents (DimClient::setDnsNode, etc. and DimServer::setDnsNode,
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| 491 | etc.) to use the new routines, so they are now independent.
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| 492 | Adapted also the Java equivalents.
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| 493 | - Fixed DimBridge to use the new routines.
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| 494 | - Fixed a bug in DID that made it crash sometimes at startup (and also when the DNS
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| 495 | restarted)!
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| 496 | - Found some very interesting features of DIM:
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| 497 | - In a node with two ethernet interfaces (so connected to two networks):
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| 498 | - The DNS will answer to servers and client on both networks, only its server
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| 499 | part - DIS_DNS (the one that answers to DID and DimBrowser requests) would
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| 500 | in principle answer only to one of the networks (in principle the default
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| 501 | interface* but can be changed by setting the environment variable "DIM_HOST_NODE").
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| 502 | - But, in fact, if the DNS or any server is started with the environment variable
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| 503 | DIM_HOST_NODE set to the interface that is not the default* one. Than both the
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| 504 | DNS (including the server part) and the DIM servers will be accessible from both
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| 505 | networks. For example DID will work fine on both networks.
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| 506 | * The command "hostname" will return the name of the default network interface.
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| 507 |
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| 508 | Note: As a result of inserting new functions the DIM shared library entry points have
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| 509 | changed, so all DIM Servers/Clients should be relinked (in particular in Linux).
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| 510 |
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| 511 |
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| 512 | 20/04/2006
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| 513 | Changes for version 16.4:
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| 514 | - Optimized the DNS for providing the list or running servers dynamically
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| 515 | by subscribing to the service "DIS_DNS/SERVER_LIST"
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| 516 |
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| 517 |
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| 518 | 07/04/2006
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| 519 | Changes for version 16.3:
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| 520 | - Upgraded to work on LynxOS Version 4.
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| 521 | - Updated makefile for INTEL platform
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| 522 | - Updated some ifdefs based on the existence of __Lynx__
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| 523 |
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| 524 |
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| 525 | 10/03/2006
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| 526 | Changes for version 16.2:
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| 527 | - Increased the listen queue. To avoid "Connection Refused" messages from servers
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| 528 | or from the DNS.
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| 529 |
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| 530 |
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| 531 | 28/02/2006
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| 532 | Changes for version 16.1:
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| 533 | - Fixed the NO_THREADS option for LINUX, it had stopped working.
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| 534 | - DimInfo::getData() could return an invalid pointer if called before connecting
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| 535 | to the server (or discovering the server did not exist). Fixed
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| 536 | (it now returns 0 in this case).
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| 537 |
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| 538 |
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| 539 | 09/11/2005
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| 540 | Changes for version 16.0:
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| 541 | - Consolidated the new timer handling mechanism, should be much more precise.
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| 542 | - Fixed the RPC handling. Used to be based on timming assumptions.
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| 543 | Now uses a safe protocol to make sure the server is connected before sending
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| 544 | an RPC request.
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| 545 | - Included in the distribution some performance measurements and a benchmark
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| 546 | server and client. Sources in src/benchmark executables in /bin for windows
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| 547 | and /linux for linux.
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| 548 | Usage:
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| 549 | benchServer <message_size_in_bytes> <number_of_services>
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| 550 | benchClient
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| 551 | benchClient will run for a while and print the measurement results.
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| 552 |
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| 553 | Please check the Manual for more information at:
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| 554 | http://www.cern.ch/dim
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