For immediate release!
Rudiments 0.47 is now available.
This update to rudiments fixes a few obscure things including a memory leak in the datetime class that could cause SQL Relay to chew up memory (very slowly) and a potential null-dereference in the xmldomnode class. Not sure how I ever missed those bugs before, given how often I use those classes, but at least they're fixed now.
Another significant update in this release is internal support for poll, epoll and kqueue. In the past, the listener class used select exclusively, but select has some issues. Most notably, attempting to listen on "large numbers" (more than 1024 on most systems) of file descriptors could cause undefined problems (references beyond the end of a 1024-member array). Now, if the platform supports epoll (like most modern linux systems) or kqueue (like most modern BSD systems) then those will be used in favor of select. If the platform supports neither epoll nor kqueue, but supports regular poll, then poll will also be used in favor of select. /dev/poll is not yet supported on solaris yet, but it's on the TODO list. Also, the poll/epoll/kqueue implementations aren't optimized yet. They still do inefficient things like rebuild the list of file descriptors every time, which has to be done with select, but they are a bit faster than select, and safe for large numbers of file descriptors.
Two classes have been renamed to be more consistent - variablebuffer is now bytebuffer and rawbuffer is now bytestring. Hey, it's pre-1.0 software. Things get renamed.
The linkedlist class has been refactored and a singlylinkedlist class has been added. Both now have sort methods now too: selectionSort() and heapSort(). Writing them took me back to my data structures class in college. selectionSort() is slow but uses no additional storage. heapSort() is much faster but uses N additional storage. Choose!
I also fixed an obscure bug on windows involving file::open() with O_CREAT but not O_EXCL.
Solaris 2.5.1 is also supported, just in case anyone still uses that!
Full ChangeLog follows:
- fixed possible null-dereference in xmldomnode::safeAppend
- added charstring::inSetIgnoringCase
- xmldomnode::setAttributeValue does nothing when the null node is referenced now
- fixed a codetree bug that could cause indentation to attempt to go negative when using an unsigned number
- added a configure test to see if -Wno-format is needed
- configure tests for mlockall/munlockall attempt link now
- added sys/types.h before sys/un.h in sys/un.h test for older freebsd
- implemented stubs for pure virtual methods of client and server classes so instances of them could be created to attach already-open file descriptors to
- unified usage of select/poll and prefer poll
- pushed all select/poll-related code into listener class
- removed problematic and unused useListener-related methods in filedescriptor class
- epoll is used in place of select/poll for systems that support it
- kqueue is used in place of select/poll for systems that support it
- consolidated getpagesize() calls to use sys::getPageSize()
- added detection and support for __vsnprintf for platforms that have that instead of vsnprintf
- added cancel and raiseSignal methods to the thread class
- fixed datetime memory leak
- added xmldomnode::clone method to clone a node
- renamed variablebuffer to bytebuffer
- renamed rawbuffer to bytestring
- refactored linkedlist
- added singlylinkedlist class
- added sort, detach, move and insert methods to linkedlist classes
- fixed file::open using O_CREAT without O_EXCL on windows
