2010-07-28 01:43:21

by Jeffrey Merkey

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Open CWorthy Libraries 07-27-2010

CURRENT
http://cworthylinux.googlecode.com/files/cworthy-07-27-2010.tar.gz

REPOSITORIES
http://code.google.com/p/cworthylinux/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencworthy/

FIXES
- fix pthread_mutex_lock deadlock in refresh_screen() wen called from
pthread_cancel
- add support for shaded fields based on field input
- add cwgen packet generator CWorthy sample application.
- add cwgen.ko support for linux kernel 2.6.34.1
- add clear_portal_storage function for clearing portal storage
without blanking the screen
- add MSDOS and DRDOS build defines and includes
- add Windows build defines and includes
- add pthread_setcancelstate() to sample program to prevent deadlocks during
calls to pthread_cancel. You need to set the cancel state to disable when
pthread_mutex_lock is called and a process is holding a lock during cancel
operations
- add saved flag to menu_frame to check if we have previously saved a screen
area before calling restore_menu
- add fixes to input_portal_fields to redraw the portal after F10 submit

TODO
- write another cworthy kernel app and think about more
- write cworthy application version of net-tools for network monitoring
- write cworthy application for monitoring disk and lan throughput totals