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   From: silvan.scherrerDESPAM@DESPAMbitwiseworks.com   
      
   *bww bitwise works GmbH progress update August 19, 2016*     
      
   In the last couple of week/month we have been working on the tasks below   
   (among a lot more).     
      
    * LIBCx   
    * Samba Server 3.6   
    * Binutils   
    * Coreutils   
    * Bison   
    * DASH   
    * GNU gettext   
    * HPLip   
    * kLIBC     
      
   *   
   LIBCx - kLIBC Extension Library*   
   The kLIBC Extension Library extends the functionality of the kLIBC   
   libraryhttp://trac.netlabs.org/libc> by adding a number of high demand   
   features required by modern applications.     
      
   Currently, LIBCx provides the following extensions:     
      
    * Improved advisory file locking using the |fcntl()| API. The   
    implementation provided by kLIBC uses |DosSetFileLocks| and is   
    broken as it does not guarantee atomicity of lock/unlock operations   
    in many cases (like overlapping lock regions etc.) and does not have   
    deadlock detection.   
    * Improved positional read/write operations provided by |pread()| and   
    |pwrite()| APIs that guarantee atomic behavior. kLIBC emulates these   
    functions using a pair of |lseek| and |read()/write()| calls in   
    non-atomic manner which leads to data corruption when accessing the   
    same file from multiple threads or processes.   
    * Improved |select()| that now supports regular file descriptors   
    instead of returning EINVAL (22) on them as kLIBC does. Regular   
    files are always reported ready for writing/reading/exceptions (as   
    per POSIX requirements).   
    * Implementation of |poll()| using |select()|. kLIBC does not provide   
    the |poll()| call at all.     
      
   *   
   Samba Server 3.6*   
   **Samba is a free implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which   
   allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running   
   Windows, Mac OS, Unix or OS/2 and OS/2-based systems. The goal of this project   
   is to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for OS/2 and OS/2-based   
   systems in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IB   
   -LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components.     
      
   We fixed a whole lot of longstanding issues in Samba Server 3.6 like:     
      
    * Max logfile size does not work (Ticket #36)   
    * Adding exceptQ support (Ticket #236)   
    * SIGABRT on some situations (Ticket #189)   
    * TDBBackup does not work (Ticket #225)   
    * All remaining TDB Problems (Ticket #208)     
      
      
   *Binutils*   
   We updated the Binutils port to version 2.25.   
   Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, mostly needed to develop   
   applications.   
   *     
      
   Coreutils*   
   We updated the Coreutils port to version 8.25.   
   These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old   
   GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.     
      
      
   *Bison   
   *We updated the Bison port to version 3.0.4.   
   Bison is a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar   
   description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that   
   grammar.**Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from   
   ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.     
      
   *   
   DASH   
   *Because our ASH shell shows it's age we have been in the need of a more   
   modern one. So we decided to use DASH as our new shell and ported version   
   0.5.9.   
   DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small   
   as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact,   
   it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most   
   tasks.     
      
   *   
   GNU gettext*   
   We updated the GNU gettext port to version 0.19.8.   
   The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for   
   producing multi-lingual messages in programs.     
      
      
   *HPLip   
   *We portet HPLip version 3.16.3   
   The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides drivers for HP   
   printers and multi-function peripherals. It is used in our case as a addon to   
   the CUPS printing subsystem.     
      
      
   *kLIBC   
   *We released a new version of kLIBC as RPM with an important fix. The fix   
   prevents a possible crash when a app uses fork().   
   See Ticket #363 for more details. We now hope Knut will integrate this fix   
   soon in his main branch.     
      
      
   *Sponsoring   
   *   
   If you want to support us or a specific project then please check out our   
   online shop http://www.bitwiseworks.com/shop>.   
   You are one of the people making the future possible!     
      
   *Partners*   
   We at bww bitwise works GmbH would like to thank our development partners,   
   Arca Noae and http://Netlabs.org for their continued contribution to the OS/2   
   platform.   
   Especially without Arca Noae the Firefox port would not be possible. They help   
   us out when we are short on sponsorship.     
      
      
   With regards, the bww bitwise works GmbH Team   
   http://www.bitwiseworks.com   
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