GT 4.0.2 Incremental Release Notes: C Common Libraries

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.2. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.1, bug fixes since 4.0.1 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.2 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.2 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.2.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the C Common Libraries 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

No changes have occurred for C Common Libraries.

3. Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed in the C Common Libraries:

  • Bug 3392: globusrun-ws Bus error
  • Bug 3427: Issues with permission of file testcred.pem located in gl...
  • Bug 3624: Linux on sparc64 hw support
  • Bug 3713: i18n does not build on HP-UX/IA-64 platform
  • Bug 3936: Nightly build failure on AIX in trunk
  • Bug 3946: don't set $SASL_PATH unnecessarily
  • Bug 4240: compilation error when building globus_debug.c against MP...
  • Bug 4309: HP-UX IA64 broken due to not hardcoding libpaths

4. Known Problems

The following problems are known to exist for C Common Libraries at the time of the 4.0.2 release:

  • Bug 484: Mem leak on deactivate_all
  • Bug 686: globus_mutex_lock() behaves differently on Unix -vs- Win32
  • Bug 930: inttypes.h included without testing if it's present
  • Bug 1141: Misleading error messages using globus-makefile-header
  • Bug 2315: Globus common fails to compile if there is no ipv6 support
  • Bug 2791: Command globus-domainname needs g11n
  • Bug 2793: Command globus-generalized-time needs g11n
  • Bug 2794: Command globus-hostname needs g11n
  • Bug 2801: Command globus-version needs g11n
  • Bug 3081: Small leak in libltldl
  • Bug 3107: Fatal error: tcp_init(): globus_io_tcp_create_listener() ...
  • Bug 3171: add RFC 2253 principal name to JAAS subject?
  • Bug 3436: globus_uuid MAC address retrieval doesn't work on solaris
  • Bug 3509: GLOBUS_COMMON_MODULE->GLOBUS_CALLBACK_MODULE deactivation...
  • Bug 3581: gpt/globus_core improvements
  • Bug 3610: globus-makefile-header returns bad field
  • Bug 4035: MacOS threading issues
  • Bug 4097: Signal handling probrem on MacOS X
  • Bug 4318: Pkgdata needs to make source dir explicit

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