2011-07-20: Term::ANSIColor 3.01
The primary change in this version is to cope correctly with non-array
references passed in as the first argument to colored(). These should
stringify, rather than cause an abort because they aren't an array
reference. Thanks to Revilo Reegiles for the report and the test case.
This release also fixes some syntax errors in the documentation, adds a
warning that the module doesn't work well with Perl formats, and updates
the URL for ECMA-048.
You can get the latest version from the Term::ANSIColor distribution page.
2011-07-20: Small midsummer haul
It's been a while since I wrote a haul post, partly because I bought a
Kindle and picked up a few books via it. I'm still not sure I'm going to
do lots of my reading that way, but for reading the Hugo nominees this
year, I didn't feel like buying some of the books in hardcover. (I'm glad
I didn't for Connie Willis's All Clear.) Of course, the process by
which I write these posts involves physical books, which means I've not
noted any of the Kindle stuff.
Must remedy that. Maybe in the next post.
Anyway, there was a new Jacqueline Carey, and since I have the entire
Kushiel series and follow-ons in hardcover, I wasn't going to stop now.
That prompted a small Powell's order.
Jacqueline Carey — Naamah's Blessing (sff)
William Cronon — Nature's Metropolis (non-fiction)
Issui Ogama — The Next Continent (sff)
Victor Pelevin — The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (sff)
I have actually been reading lately. I've just been really bad about
writing reviews again, partly because work again has gotten very busy and
partly because I'm struggling a bit with attention and life balance. But
I've taken care of getting my car smogged, gotten in a bit of travel, and
cleared jury duty, so the goal for the rest of this month is to get things
back into order.
2011-07-25: rra-c-util 3.7
There are a surprisingly large variety of changes in this release. I keep
expecting this package to stabilize, but I keep finding new bits of shared
infrastructure that it's good to maintain in a single location.
The main new code in this release is an import of the generic buffer
library that I expanded for INN from some code that was already there.
This is a set of functions for managing a buffer that holds some amount of
allocated memory along with counts of contents used and available. It's
useful for processing data received from the network or other cases where
one wants automatic resizing of buffers. I thought I was going to use
this for another project (but ended up not doing so) and had been meaning
to incorporate it for a while, since I know there are some packages that I
haven't yet converted to my infrastructure that will benefit from it.
Also new in this release are Autoconf macros for detecting APR and
APR-Util, which are being used by my current project.
The PAM utility library's configuration handling now copes properly (at
least as much as it can) when krb5_appdefault_string is a stub that does
nothing, which is the case in Mac OS X 10.7. The PAM configure support
also now correctly detects that FreeBSD's PAM API uses const.
The kafs configure macros now abort if the platform requires OpenAFS
headers and those headers aren't found, and the kafs code is not built in
rra-c-util itself by default (since having OpenAFS installed is relatively
rare).
Other minor changes: include strings.h in portable/system.h for
strncasecmp, add ARRAY_SIZE and ARRAY_END macros to util/macros.h, prefer
gssapi/gssapi.h to gssapi.h since the former is deprecated on FreeBSD, and
fix a compiler warning in util/messages.c.
I've also gone through all files meant to be copied into other source
packages and added a comment saying that the file is maintained in
rra-c-util and giving a pointer to its web site.
You can get the latest version from the rra-c-util distribution page.
2011-07-25: pam-afs-session 2.5
The primary change in this version is that the module resets the SIGCHLD
handler while spawning an external aklog program so that the application
handler isn't invoked when aklog exits. This means there's still a race
condition if processes spawned by the calling application exit while this
module is running, but one or the other is unavoidable, and this seems
likely to cause fewer problems.
pam-afs-session now also defaults to "nopag" on Mac OS X, since the
operating system doesn't support PAGs, rather than erroring out if run
without that option. It copes with the stub krb5_appdefault_string
function on Mac OS X 10.7, fixing a segfault, but still can't get
configuration information from the system krb5.conf on that platform
because the default Kerberos libraries don't support it.
There are also some more minor updates from incorporating the latest
rra-c-util, most notably that the build now correctly detects whether PAM
uses const on FreeBSD.
You can get the latest version from the
pam-afs-session distribution page.
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