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New features

Item posted by Bruno Haible <haible> on Sun 03 Jul 2011 01:25:07 PM UTC.

Recently added new major features:

  • 2011-06-21 Reliable error reporting through strerror_r, strerror, perror.


  • 2011-06-12 The 'acl' module now supports the ACLs of HP-UX 11.11 and newer.


  • Improvements for multiple invocations of gnulib-tool in the scope of the same configure.ac:
    • 2011-06-08 New option --witness-c-macro.
    • 2011-05-29 Multiple gnulib generated .h files of the same name can be combined.


  • 2011-05-16 The documentation now lists the target platforms:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Target-Platforms.html

  • 2011-04-21 'passfd': A new module for passing file descriptors along Unix domain sockets.


  • 2011-04-05 New Makefile rules are added to generated Makefile.ams, so that stale generated .h files are either regenerated or removed, whichever is appropriate.


  • 2011-01-26 It is now possible to write unit tests that test against memory leaks.


 

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