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From: silvan.scherrerDESPAM@DESPAMbitwiseworks.com

*bww bitwise works GmbH progress update August 19, 2016*  

In the last couple of week/month we have been working on the tasks below
(among a lot more).  

 * LIBCx
 * Samba Server 3.6
 * Binutils
 * Coreutils
 * Bison
 * DASH
 * GNU gettext
 * HPLip
 * kLIBC  

*
LIBCx - kLIBC Extension Library*
The kLIBC Extension Library extends the functionality of the kLIBC
libraryhttp://trac.netlabs.org/libc> by adding a number of high demand
features required by modern applications.  

Currently, LIBCx provides the following extensions:  

 * Improved advisory file locking using the |fcntl()| API. The
 implementation provided by kLIBC uses |DosSetFileLocks| and is
 broken as it does not guarantee atomicity of lock/unlock operations
 in many cases (like overlapping lock regions etc.) and does not have
 deadlock detection.
 * Improved positional read/write operations provided by |pread()| and
 |pwrite()| APIs that guarantee atomic behavior. kLIBC emulates these
 functions using a pair of |lseek| and |read()/write()| calls in
 non-atomic manner which leads to data corruption when accessing the
 same file from multiple threads or processes.
 * Improved |select()| that now supports regular file descriptors
 instead of returning EINVAL (22) on them as kLIBC does. Regular
 files are always reported ready for writing/reading/exceptions (as
 per POSIX requirements).
 * Implementation of |poll()| using |select()|. kLIBC does not provide
 the |poll()| call at all.  

*
Samba Server 3.6*
**Samba is a free implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which
allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running
Windows, Mac OS, Unix or OS/2 and OS/2-based systems. The goal of this project
is to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for OS/2 and OS/2-based
systems in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IB
-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components.  

We fixed a whole lot of longstanding issues in Samba Server 3.6 like:  

 * Max logfile size does not work (Ticket #36)
 * Adding exceptQ support (Ticket #236)
 * SIGABRT on some situations (Ticket #189)
 * TDBBackup does not work (Ticket #225)
 * All remaining TDB Problems (Ticket #208)  


*Binutils*
We updated the Binutils port to version 2.25.
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, mostly needed to develop
applications.
*  

Coreutils*
We updated the Coreutils port to version 8.25.
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old
GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.  


*Bison
*We updated the Bison port to version 3.0.4.
Bison is a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar
description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that
grammar.**Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from
ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.  

*
DASH
*Because our ASH shell shows it's age we have been in the need of a more
modern one. So we decided to use DASH as our new shell and ported version
0.5.9.
DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small
as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact,
it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most
tasks.  

*
GNU gettext*
We updated the GNU gettext port to version 0.19.8.
The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for
producing multi-lingual messages in programs.  


*HPLip
*We portet HPLip version 3.16.3
The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides drivers for HP
printers and multi-function peripherals. It is used in our case as a addon to
the CUPS printing subsystem.  


*kLIBC
*We released a new version of kLIBC as RPM with an important fix. The fix
prevents a possible crash when a app uses fork().
See Ticket #363 for more details. We now hope Knut will integrate this fix
soon in his main branch.  


*Sponsoring
*
If you want to support us or a specific project then please check out our
online shop http://www.bitwiseworks.com/shop>.
You are one of the people making the future possible!  

*Partners*
We at bww bitwise works GmbH would like to thank our development partners,
Arca Noae and http://Netlabs.org for their continued contribution to the OS/2
platform.
Especially without Arca Noae the Firefox port would not be possible. They help
us out when we are short on sponsorship.  


With regards, the bww bitwise works GmbH Team
http://www.bitwiseworks.com
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