LiS 2.18.3 was released under GPLv2 on March 15, 2006. LiS (Linux STREAMS) is a STREAMS framework that is compatible with UNIX SVR 4 STREAMS as described in the "UNIX System V Release 4 Programmer's Guide - STREAMS".
The LiS 2.18.3 release is the OpenSS7 Project's <http://www.openss7.org/> most recent release of the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernel compatible package. It includes libraries, documentation and all the things needed to run STREAMS for OpenSS7 SS7 packages and other LiS based products. This release provides: - Corrections for and testing of 64-bit clean compile and test runs on x86_64 architecture. - Some bug corrections resulting from gcc 4.0.2 compiler warnings. - Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list. Builds on FC4 2.6.15 kernel and with gcc 4.0.2. - Added in many of Paul's 64-bit corrections. This is an unstable public alpha release of the package. This release, as the release before it, suppresses versioning of LiS exported symbols and restores to a large degree binary compatibility of interface functions with LiS 2.18.0. It again contains the pipe performance programs an POSIX conformance test suite used with Linux Fast-STREAMS for comparison testing between LiS and Linux Fast-STREAMS. These programs were used to generate the comparison performance test results <http://www.openss7.org/streams_perf.html> and conformance test results <http://www.openss7.org/streams_pics.html>. A large number of additional tests cases were found to fail on x86_64 and SMP architectures making the LiS packages largely unusable. Please read <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/LiS-2.18.3/README-alpha> in the release. The package is still largely unusable on 64-bit or SMP kernels. Linux STREAMS IS DEPRECATED. DO NOT USE IT. THE PACKAGE CONTAINS MANY UNRESOLVED BUGS. USE Linux Fast-STREAMS INSTEAD. This is the OpenSS7 Project's third, and likely last, LiS-2.18.0-based release of LiS. The release includes all of the improvements from previous releases as well as a few additional 64-bit patches. The OpenSS7 Project will be replacing LiS with Linux Fast-STREAMS in all further production releases. As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds rpms for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel. This package is released under the 'GNU Public License Version 2'. The release is available as an autoconf/RPM tarball, SRPM and set of binary RPMs. See the download page <http://www.openss7.org/download.html> for the autoconf tarballs and SRPMs. See the LiS package page at <http://www.openss7.org/streams_pkg.html> for tarballs, SRPMs and binary RPMs. See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/LiS-2.18.3/ChangeLog> and <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/LiS-2.18.3/NEWS> in the release for more information. Also, see the manual/LiS.pdf manual in the release (also at <http://www.openss7.org/LiS_manual.html>). For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20060315_3.html> -- Brian F. G. Bidulock [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openss7.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
