Release
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Aug 7 19:22:18 CEST 2006
In message <ujr1wrsa4cz.fsf at cat.linpro.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgra
v?= writes:
> - Portability: mostly the following issues:
>
> - printf() extensions
These are now only used in the vcl compiler which defines the %T
extension. This should hopefully work fine with GNU libc as well.
> - srandomdev()
Any good seed is acceptable. It's just to avoid the XID starting
from zero every time (for any value of zero).
> - <md5.h>
I've been thinking of using a more lightweight hash anyway.
> - strptime()
This can be unrolled at some expense in source code.
> - vis() / strvis()
This is used in varnishlog to make sure that Debug records don't
trash the screen with binary stuff which might leak through. Again,
that can be unrolled.
> - Documentation: for the Alpha release, all we need are installation
> instructions and a quick "getting started" guide. Both are at
> least partly written already.
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