Brian F. G. Bidulock
2008-11-02 18:07:34 UTC
Package strnsl-0.9.2.4 was released under AGPLv3 2008-10-31.
UNIX has traditionally provided three components of the Network Services
Library, libnsl, two of which are associated with the X/Open Transport
Interface/Transport Layer Interface (XTI/TLI), libxnet, the Transport
Provider Interface (TPI), and STREAMS network pseudo-device drivers. Two
components provide the TI (Transport Independent) interface, whereas the
other provides the TS (Transport Sockets) interface. The TI components
provide the Transport Independent RPC services (TI-RPC) pioneered by Sun
Microsystems and subsequently standardized by the IETF.
GNU/Linux glibc provides (among other things) the RPC interface library
and the TS-RPC and BSD 4.3 sockets address translation facilities in
libc, and provides NIS capabilities in libnsl. STREAMS related
components that are not currently part of the Linux Network Services
Library (libnsl) are:
1. Network Selection, consisting of:
+ Network Configuration database access, netconfig(3), and,
+ Network Path access, netpath(3).
2. Name-to-Address Translation, netdir(3).
These are often referred to as the Network Selection facility of the
Network Services Library. The OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library
package provides a library, renamed libxnsl, that provides the missing
Network Selection and Name-to-Address mapping facilities designed to
work with xti(3).
The OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library package contains header
files and the associated documentation that were originally contained in
the strxnet package. This library was quickly removed from the strxnet
distribution and placed in its own add-on package.
This is another separate release from The OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7
STREAMS Network Services Library package. This package provides the
libxnsl library providing the Network Selection Facility for the Network
Services Library. The package contains all the necessary manual pages
and other documentation. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style
autoconf tarball.
This is an alpha release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the
OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.G). The release provides support
for recent distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Minor documentation corrections.
- Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back
to GPL.
- License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These
changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
primarily for embedded targets.
- Improvements to common build process for embedded and
cross-compile targets.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and
2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
- Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
- Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major
subpackages.
- Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1)
documents.
- Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and
apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has
been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
- Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.
- Several important bug fixes for thread safety of the socket
library: see BUGS in the release, or Bugs in the manual, for more
information.
This is a public alpha release of the package. This package is currently
incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community.
If you are interested in completion of this package, contact
<mailto:***@openss7.com>.
As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6
RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels
without patching or recompiling the kernel.
This package is publicly released under the GNU Affero General Public
License (AGPL) Version 3. The release is available as an autoconf
tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads
page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the strnsl package
page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.
See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strnsl-0.9.2.4/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strnsl-0.9.2.4/NEWS> in the release,
or <http://www.openss7.org/strnsl_manual.html#Release-Notes> in the
manual, for more information. Also, see the strnsl.pdf manual in the
release (also in html <http://www.openss7.org/strnsl_manual.html>).
For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_D.html>.
--
Brian F. G. Bidulock
***@openss7.org
http://www.openss7.org/
UNIX has traditionally provided three components of the Network Services
Library, libnsl, two of which are associated with the X/Open Transport
Interface/Transport Layer Interface (XTI/TLI), libxnet, the Transport
Provider Interface (TPI), and STREAMS network pseudo-device drivers. Two
components provide the TI (Transport Independent) interface, whereas the
other provides the TS (Transport Sockets) interface. The TI components
provide the Transport Independent RPC services (TI-RPC) pioneered by Sun
Microsystems and subsequently standardized by the IETF.
GNU/Linux glibc provides (among other things) the RPC interface library
and the TS-RPC and BSD 4.3 sockets address translation facilities in
libc, and provides NIS capabilities in libnsl. STREAMS related
components that are not currently part of the Linux Network Services
Library (libnsl) are:
1. Network Selection, consisting of:
+ Network Configuration database access, netconfig(3), and,
+ Network Path access, netpath(3).
2. Name-to-Address Translation, netdir(3).
These are often referred to as the Network Selection facility of the
Network Services Library. The OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library
package provides a library, renamed libxnsl, that provides the missing
Network Selection and Name-to-Address mapping facilities designed to
work with xti(3).
The OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library package contains header
files and the associated documentation that were originally contained in
the strxnet package. This library was quickly removed from the strxnet
distribution and placed in its own add-on package.
This is another separate release from The OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7
STREAMS Network Services Library package. This package provides the
libxnsl library providing the Network Selection Facility for the Network
Services Library. The package contains all the necessary manual pages
and other documentation. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style
autoconf tarball.
This is an alpha release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the
OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.G). The release provides support
for recent distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Minor documentation corrections.
- Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back
to GPL.
- License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These
changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
primarily for embedded targets.
- Improvements to common build process for embedded and
cross-compile targets.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and
2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
- Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
- Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major
subpackages.
- Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1)
documents.
- Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and
apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has
been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
- Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.
- Several important bug fixes for thread safety of the socket
library: see BUGS in the release, or Bugs in the manual, for more
information.
This is a public alpha release of the package. This package is currently
incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community.
If you are interested in completion of this package, contact
<mailto:***@openss7.com>.
As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6
RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels
without patching or recompiling the kernel.
This package is publicly released under the GNU Affero General Public
License (AGPL) Version 3. The release is available as an autoconf
tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads
page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the strnsl package
page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.
See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strnsl-0.9.2.4/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strnsl-0.9.2.4/NEWS> in the release,
or <http://www.openss7.org/strnsl_manual.html#Release-Notes> in the
manual, for more information. Also, see the strnsl.pdf manual in the
release (also in html <http://www.openss7.org/strnsl_manual.html>).
For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_D.html>.
--
Brian F. G. Bidulock
***@openss7.org
http://www.openss7.org/