Revision history for Perl extension IPC::Locker The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in []. * IPC::Locker 1.502 2022-06-04 **** Test cleanup for Nagios (#13). [andk] * IPC::Locker 1.500 2019-10-26 **** Documentation cleanups for github release. * IPC::Locker 1.496 2017-04-26 **** Fix tests '.' for Perl 5.26.0, rt121025. [Dan Collins] * IPC::Locker 1.494 2017-01-20 *** Fix debug message. * IPC::Locker 1.492 2013-01-31 *** Add --host option to lockerd. [Victor Gamov] * IPC::Locker 1.491 2012-03-16 **** Fix cpan-testers' tests on systems without perldoc. * IPC::Locker 1.489 2012-01-12 **** Fix some false CPAN test failures. * IPC::Locker 1.488 2010-08-04 **** Fix some false CPAN test failures with pidstat on slow systems. * IPC::Locker 1.487 2010-07-01 **** Fix documentation on ::Server, issue5. [Dennis McCoy] **** Use Test::More to simplify test failure debugging. * IPC::Locker 1.486 2010-04-20 ** Add 3 automatic retries on connection failures. [Krishna Subramanian] Override using IPC::Locker->new()'s connect_tries and connect_sleep. *** Fix repeating locks to one client, issue4. [by Krishna Subramanian] **** Fix "waiting" messages to show first lock name, not last. * IPC::Locker 1.485 2010-03-04 **** Fix Pod::Usage dependency, rt51024. [Andreas Koenig] * IPC::Locker 1.484 2009-05-08 ** This package is now licensed under LGPL v3 and/or Artistic v2.0. * IPC::Locker 1.483 2008-07-28 **** Fix pidwatch --killer --signal to prepend dash. [Bryce Denney] **** Fix locker ignoring remote PidWatch process death. * IPC::Locker 1.482 2008-07-01 *** Don't require pidstatd for pidwatch'es on localhost. [Bryce Denney] * IPC::Locker 1.481 2008-02-09 **** Fix Perl 5.6.2 compile warnings. [cpan-testers] * IPC::Locker 1.480 2008-02-01 **** Added return type suppression to IPC::PidStat::pid_request. **** Fix server to support over 1024 client connections. [Bryce Denney] **** Lockerd performance enhancements to support > 3000 requests/second. * IPC::Locker 1.472 2007-07-16 **** Fix locker test. [cpan-testers] * IPC::Locker 1.471 2007-07-05 **** Fix loosing $@ in evals due to IO::Socket::INET bug. [Bryce Denney] * IPC::Locker 1.470 2007-05-04 ** Add uriexec. [by Jeff Dutton] **** Scripts are now distributed under the script directory. * IPC::Locker 1.463 2007-04-05 **** Fix 'make test' issues on systems without Nagios. [cpan-testers] * IPC::Locker 1.462 2007-04-03 *** Fix requested pid not being passed down to server. [Vasu Arasanipalai] **** Fix --help to use Pod::Usage instead of depreciated pod2text. * IPC::Locker 1.461 2007-01-24 **** Pass full hostname through IPC::PidStat daemons. This allows lockerd to process returns from hosts with aliased names. * IPC::Locker 1.460 2007-01-23 ** Support locking across multiple domains. [Daniel DeFolo] *** Use fully qualified domain name instead of hostname. [Daniel DeFolo] * IPC::Locker 1.452 2006-08-07 *** Destroy_unlock now only unlocks when the current pid matches the pid that requested the lock, to prevent forked processes from unlocking the lock. [Jeff Dutton] *** Add pidwatch --foreground switch. * IPC::Locker 1.451 2006-05-23 **** Cache IP addresses to avoid name server traffic. [by Greg Waters] * IPC::Locker 1.450 (Alpha release only) ** Created lockersh program for adding locks around other programs. *** Add IPCLOCKER_HOST and IPCLOCKER_PORT environment variables. * IPC::Locker 1.440 2006-03-13 *** Add Nagios plugins check_lockerd and check_pidstatd. *** Fix pidwatch dieing due to SIGCHILD race. [by Greg Waters] * IPC::Locker 1.434 2005-10-13 ** NEWS is now renamed Changes, to support CPAN indexing. [Offer Kaye] **** Fixed initalization scripts. * IPC::Locker 1.433 2004-12-01 *** Fix filename conflict on Windows * IPC::Locker 1.431 2004-09-13 *** Disassociate pidstatd from stdout so runs better as deamon. * IPC::Locker 1.430 2004-01-27 **** Warn about non-root pidstatd initialization. * IPC::Locker 1.420 2003-07-24 ** Added pidstat tool for querying the daemon. [by Stephen Adkins] *** Added pid_request_recv method. *** Added pid=># parameter for setting PID to track. [Stephen Adkins] * IPC::Locker 1.410 2003-01-31 *** Added lock_list() method. [by Anton Berezin] * IPC::Locker 1.401 2002-08-22 **** Fix tests to start the servers automatically. * IPC::Locker 1.400 2002-08-01 ** Added pidstatd deamon and pidwatch program. Optional. If running, allows for autounlocking across any hosts, and for any generic application to determine if a PID exists on the server's machine. *** Added ping() method for determining if a server is up. *** Added example init.d/lockerd file. * IPC::Locker 1.300 2002-04-03 ** Added autounlock switch to locks. This records the host and pid which obtained the lock, and if that PID disappears the lock is released to a new host. [Stephen Adkins] *** Fixed bug which made lockerd --port option not work. *** Allow colon separated hostnames for fallback hosting. * IPC::Locker 1.200 2001-11-15 ** Allow multiple lock names on lock requests, and return the first one which becomes free. [Mike Lopresti] ** A zero timeout will disable timeouts. [James FitzGibbon] * IPC::Locker 1.14 2000-02-13 ** Changed default port to 'lockerd' which will look up the port number in /etc/services. If not found defaults to old 1751. *** Improved detection and recovery of daemon failures. * IPC::Locker 1.12 2000-05-24 ** Added support for Unix named sockets [Written by kaspar@lifosa.com] *** Fixed bug where lock expiration timer would fire at wrong time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: Documentation on change history for this package ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This uses outline mode in Emacs. See C-h m [M-x describe-mode]. Copyright 1999-2022 by Wilson Snyder. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License Version 2.0. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ \t\f\n]*$" end: