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NSPR 3.1.1 Release

May-3-1999


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Changes in this release
  3. Reporting bugs
  4. Building from source
  5. Contact Info

1. Introduction

The NSPR 3.1.1 release is now available at /m/dist/nspr20/v3.1.1 (or equivalently, /share/builds/components/nspr20/v3.1.1). This release is a patch release for the NSPR 3.1 release.  Please refer to the NSPR 3.1 release notes for basic information.  This release notes focuses on the changes between NSPR releases 3.1 and 3.1.1.

2. Changes in this release

2.1 New functions and features

1. Bugsplat bug #346002: new private functions to allow polling OS file descriptors and NSPR file descriptors together.

2.2 Bug fixes

The following bugs are fixed in this release.

1. Bugsplat bug #345938: Pthreads: PR_Send, PR_SendTo, PR_Write, PR_Writev can return partial byte count.

2. Bugsplat bug #122419: a workaround for a bug in Compaq Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX) V4.0D kernel that results in corrupted data in  memory-mapped files when using the MAP_PRIVATE mapping.

3. Bugzilla bug #4736: sccsid and rcsid are optimized away by the compiler.

4. Bugzilla bug #5297: removed an extraneous printf statement in PR_GetLibraryPath.

5. Bugsplat bug #350054: in the NT implementation of SocketTransmitFile, free the PRFileDesc only if the file is successfully transmitted.

2.3 Obsolete interface

The asynchronous resolver library (arlib or libares) is no longer part of the NSPR distribution.  NES 4.0 is the only product using that library so the ownership of that library was transferred to the NES team.

 3. Reporting bugs

Bugs discovered should be reported by filing bug reports.  If you can describe a bug without giving any proprietary information, you should file the bug report in mozilla.org's bug database Bugzilla.  You will need a Bugzilla account, which can be obtained easily from the Bugzilla main page.  If proprietary information cannot be avoided in a bug description, you can file the bug report in Bugsplat.

The following information is required in a bug report

  • platform (Solaris 2.5.1, HP-UX 11.0, etc.)
  • number of cpus in the system
  • a stack trace, in the event of a crash
  • reproducibility of the problem
  • location of core dump, if available, along with those for the libraries and executables

 4. Building from source

This release is built from the source at mozilla.org's CVS repository, with the CVS tag NSPRPUB_RELEASE_3_1_1.  If you do not have an account at mozilla.org, you can check out the source as user anonymous.  Set your CVSROOT environment variable to :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot.  The password for user anonymous is anonymous.  Check out the source from CVS by
    cvs co -r NSPRPUB_RELEASE_3_1_1 mozilla/nsprpub

To build, do
    cd mozilla/nsprpub
    gmake export

5. Contact Info

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/refNSPR - NSPR documentation
http://warp/projects/hardcore/prj-nspr20  - nspr home page
nsprgroup   - the nspr team
nspr20eng  - mailing list for nspr developers
nspr20clients - mailing list for nspr clients
netscape.public.mozilla.nspr  - nspr newsgroup at mozilla.org