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- Short: SDK for the AmiTCP/IP protocol stack
- Type: comm/tcp
- Uploader: AmiTCP-Group@nsdi.fi
- Author: AmiTCP-Group@ndsi.fi (Network Solutions Development Inc.)
- Version: Release 4.1
-
- This archive contains include files, some development tools, link
- libraries (with source) and programming examples for AmiTCP/IP 4.1.
-
- AmiTCP/IP is propiertary, copyrighted product of the NSDi - Network
- Solutions Development Inc, Finland. See the file 'LICENCE.SDK'
- included in the archive for the licence conditions.
-
-
- * Bug reports
-
- Send any bug reports to <AmiTCP-Bug@nsdi.fi>.
-
- * New Features, enchancements and bug fixes on each release of the SDK:
-
- NOTE: AmiTCP itself is not included in the SDK archive, but the
- relevant (from the programmers point of view) new features and bug
- fixes are mentioned here for completeness. 3.0 beta releases are not
- mentioned in this list for clarity and to avoid unnecessary confusion.
-
- Fixes Bugs on 4.1:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - Made IOC_VOID ioctl's to be accepted, too.
- - Fixed inconsistency in link level sockaddr.
-
- * usergroup.library:
- - Made root to be the default user (again).
-
- * net.lib, netnb.lib, src/netlib/popen.c:
- - Changed popen() to use SystemTags() redirection, since the
- standard "more" did not work otherwise.
-
-
- New Features on 4.0:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - Added new function: GetSocketEvents().
- - Added the link level address handling, changed if_type to use
- hardware types.
- - Added new sana-II errors to the error lists.
- - Configured domain names are now used on internal host
- searches, too.
- - Added error messages to startup failures.
- - Early error messages are now printed to the console.
- - db/resolv.conf is now read for DOMAIN and NAMESERVER entries.
- - db/netdb is not read any more, the individual files (hosts,
- protocols, networks, sercives, resolv.conf and inet.access)
- are read explicitly.
- - WITH keyword is removed from netdb parsing
- - Removed ARexx variables TASKNAME and NTHBASE (they were
- obsolete).
- - Added new API function GetSocketEvents().
- - Added new SocketBaseTagList() tag SBTC_SIGEVENTMASK.
- - Added new socket option SO_EVENTMASK. Setting this option
- will set the ASYNC mode on the socket also.
- - Socket owner is now set by default, _except_ after
- ObtainSocket().
- - FIOSETOWN ioctl now demands the caller to set itself as the
- owner.
- - Added new callback functionality to coordinate fd tables
- with the link library. (SocketBaseTags() tag
- SBTC_FDCALLBACK).
- - Made name server resolving multithreaded. Now each
- application has it's own set of resolver state variables.
- Before any name resolvation would block if another
- resolvation was in progress.
- - Added h_errno setting via a pointer (SocketBaseTags() tag
- SBTC_HERRNOLONGPTR).
- - Changed the AmiTCP ARexx port (AMITCP) to show only after the API
- is up and running (no need to "wait" on the bin/startnet).
- - Added functions sendmsg() and recvmsg() for scatter/gather I/O.
- - First parameter to Dup2Socket() can now be -1 to mark the fd
- (the second parameter) as not to be used by AmiTCP.
- - Added function SocketBaseTagList(). Tag definitions for it are
- on netinclude:amitcp/socketbasetags.h.
- - Added function gethostid(), which returns the primary IP
- address of the host as the unique host id.
- - Implemented gethostname() API function and HOSTNAME ARexx variable
- (QUERY/SET). The host name is queried from the netdb and/or name
- server, if it is not explicitly given in db/AmiTCP.config _or_ set
- with the ARexx SET command.
- - Added support for the BSD %m feature to the syslog() (%m is
- replaced by the error description of current errno value), Also
- changed the formatting code to not use the Exec's RawDoFmt()
- allowing 32 bit values to be printed without the 'l' size
- modifier.
- - Only the sizes 1, 2 and 4 are now allowed for the errno
- variable.
- - SetErrnoPtr() has now return value. 0 on success and -1
- otherwise. The _old_ errno indicates the error causing the
- failure.
- - "new" interface naming style (eg. slip.device/0 -> sl0).
-
- * netinclude:
- - Removed KERNEL specific definitions.
- - Added files stdio.h and fcntl.h supporing DOS stdio if
- USE_DOSIO is defined. Otherwise they include the original
- files from the INCLUDE:.
- NOTE: socket stdio does not work with the USE_DOSIO. SAS/C
- stdio must be used, if the sockets are to be used via the
- stdio functions.
- - Added files: sys/file.h, net/if_types.h, net/if_dl.h
- - updated: device/sana2.h, devices/sana2.i,
- devices/sana2specialstaats.h, devices/sana2specialstats.i
- - Added prototype, pragma, fd entry and inline function for the new
- GetSocketEvents() function.
- - (sys/socket.c):
- Added asynchronous socket event codes and a new socket option to
- set per socket event mask.
- - (amitcp/socketbasetags.h):
- Added tag code for event notification signal mask
- (SBTC_SIGEVENTMASK).
- - (sys/syslog.h):
- Removed AmiTCP's internal log path names.
- - Added arpa protocol headers (arpa/ftp.h, arpa/nameser.h,
- arpa/tftp.h and arpa/telnet.h) to the distribution.
- - Added/deleted some files.
- - Added SocketBaseTagList() definitions to
- amitcp/socketbasetags.h.
- - GCC: Added inline functions from clib/socket_inlines.h to
- inline/socket.h, since those had to be modified for gcc.
- Generated big list of defines to make possible to use local
- `SocketBase' variable in calls to bsdsocket.library calls.
- This feature is invoked defining SOCKETBASE_IN_CONTEXT.
- - Added syslog.h (includes sys/syslog.h) for source
- compatibility.
- - SAS/C: inline functions are defined only if OPTINLINE is
- used, netlib stubs are used otherwise.
- - Added new prototypes and declarations for the
- usergroup.library and its link library (grp.h, pwd.h,
- unistd.h, utmp.h, clib/netlib_protos.h).
- - Changes for the short interface names, removed interface
- tags.
- - Added include files for the netinfo.device.
- - Added RPC include directories rpc and rpcsvc.
-
- * net.lib:
- - Added tzset() to the timerinit.c to override the one from
- the SAS/C sc.lib. ENV:TZ is just once, or not at all if
- locale.library is present.
- - Added dosio_init.c, dosio_sprintf.c.
- - Added compiling the USE_DOSIO versions of the libraries (the
- names of the USE_DOSIO versions contain 'd' after the base
- name of the library, for example: net.lib -> netd.lib).
- - Added functions: link_addr(), link_ntoa().
- - Updated to open version 4 of the bsdsocket.library.
- - Moved usr.lib functionality to here.
- - Added implementation of SAS/C level 1 I/O functions, which
- allows stdio on sockets (printf(), and a like).
- - Integrated inetd daemon startup code to here. Includes
- functions init_inet_daemon() and set_socket_stdio(). See
- src/examples/serv for an example.
- - Added some unix style functions (utime(), popen(), sleep()
- etc.). See doc/netlib.doc for a full list and a reference.
- - Added real h_errno variable.
- - Added rcmd() and resvport(), removed getpwuid() and getgrgid().
- - Added syslog() support functions: openlog(), closelog() and
- setlogmask().
- - Removed errlst.c (error tables are now inside the AmiTCP to
- decrease overall memory usage).
- - Removed gethostname(), now implemented in the AmiTCP.
- - Added strerror().
- - Added perror() and stubs for the inline functions (if the
- inlining is not done).
- - Program name is passed to the AmiTCP at startup. It is used
- in the syslog() messages.
- - New function herror() will print the host error code set
- after host resolving failure (uses SocketBaseTags()).
- - New function GetHErrno() will return the host error code
- using the SocketBaseTags().
-
- * libs/usergroup.library:
- - Added a new function call getcredentials() which returns all
- credential for a process, updated library version to 4.
- - New library managing the user/group information.
- - The default user is now "nobody" (before it was "root").
-
- * devs/netinfo.device:
- - New device, which handles the actual user/group database
- files.
-
- * src/examples/serv:
- - New example of stdio and inetd usage.
-
- * rpc.lib:
- - AmiTCP implementation of the Sun RPC 4.0.
- - Added support for the USE_DOSIO. Now a
- special version of the rpclib using the dosio is compiled by
- default (rpcdr.lib). The dosio version of the rpclib uses BPTR
- file descriptors (dos.library files) instead of FILE * (link
- library stdio files) with the xdrstdio_create().
- Using rpcdr.lib and netd.lib with a typical RPC program makes it
- 5k smaller wrt. link library stdio.
-
- * help/RPC.guide:
- - Full documentation for the RPC in the AmigaGuide format.
-
- * rcsrev:
- - New development utility, which creates standard _rev.h files
- from some files RCS id.
-
- * src/devtools, src/examples:
- - New directories to clean up the directory structure.
-
- * portmap:
- - RPC program,version to port mapper, needed to be run before
- any RPC based servers.
-
- * rpcinfo:
- - Utility to show RPC bindings on a portmap on some host.
-
- Fixed Bugs on 4.0:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - Fixed bug with configuration string setting. Too small buffer
- restricted the configuration string sizes to less than 24 bytes.
- - Fixed syslog message level handling. It was broken if the facility
- code was present.
- - Changed gethostbyname() not to treate the name as dot notation IP
- address based on the first digit only. Full check for the dot
- notation is now made.
- - Fixed bug in getservbyname() which now checks the protocol
- string.
- - Fixed the route dumping bug.
- - Logging information is now appended to the end of the old
- log file.
-
- * net.lib:
- - Added priority to usergroup autodestructor function.
-
- * inetd:
- - Fixed bugs in server argument parsing. Before any more than
- one argument would not have worked. (Thanks to Magnus Lilja
- for pointing this out).
-
-
- New Features on 2.3:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - New ARexx command "KILL" and a new script, bin/stopnet,
- which sends this command to AmiTCP, causing it to try to
- stop all networking applications, and if successfull,
- itself, too.
-
- Fixed Bugs on 2.3:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - Removed the incorrect use of M_EOR, which caused fragmented
- packets to be truncated.
-
- New Features on 2.2:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - The interactive sessions have now a higher priority when
- using rh(c)slip.device
-
- New Features on 2.1:
-
- * Inet-handler:
- - With Inet-Handler you can use AmigaDOS IO to access TCP protocol
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - A timestamp is added to the log messages
- - Faster checksum calculation implemented in assembler
-
- * net.lib:
- - User and group database handling routines are added to the
- net.lib. Release includes example databases for `ls' and `finger'
- utilities, which use these databases
- - A real gettimeofday() using locale is also added
-
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