LiS 2.18.3 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

Approved for Immediate Release

Mar 15, 2006
OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.18.3 of the Linux STREAMS LiS package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Mar 15, 2006)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.18.3 of the Linux STREAMS LiS package. 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 OpenSS7 Project's most recent autoconf/RPM release of LiS (2.18.3) is now available. It includes manual pages, documentation, and all the things that you need to run STREAMS for OpenSS7 SS7 packages or other LiS based products.

The LiS 2.18.3 release is the OpenSS7 Project's 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. Please see README-alpha in the release.

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 and conformance test results.

A large number of additional tests cases were found to fail on x86_64 and SMP architectures making the LiS packages largely unusable, especially on 64-bit or SMP kernels.

Deprecated and unmaintained. Download the latest streams package version instead.

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 publicly 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 downloads page for the autoconf tarballs and SRPMs. See the LiS package page for tarballs, SRPMS and binary RPMS.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the LiS.pdf manual in the release (also in html here).

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