F.0 Documentation Revision History

The following sections outline the changes that have been made to the Libraries for C (LibC) documentation (in reverse chronological order):

February 2008	Fixed broken links. Added thread information to random, rand, and rand_r.
October 11, 2006	Fixed broken links.
March 1, 2006	Added information for nwsopen and to popen.
October 5, 2005	Made minor technical corrections.
June 1, 2005	Made minor technical corrections.
March 2, 2005	Added documentation for the pwd.h functions. Added information about the posixpre prelude file. See Selecting A Prelude File. Modified Section 13.2, POSIX Path Semantics.
October 6, 2004	Added documentation for the direct file system functions (Novell Direct File System Functions) and file system events (File System Event Functions in Volume 2). Added documentation for new functions in the following header files: unistd.h, screen.h, unilib.h, xmalloc.h, utf8.h, stdlib.h, netware.h, and library.h. Removed the documentation for the server -o option because it no longer does anything in NetWare 5.x and above.
June 30, 2004	Added documentation for the following netware.h functions: OSGetCodePage and OSGetCountryInfo in Volume 2. Added documentation for the finite function in Volume 2. Added documentation for the following monitor.h functions: netware_mem_info_for_nlm and netware_restag_info_for_nlm in Volume 2. Added documentation for the following fsio.h functions: fgetstat_with_namespace, getstat_with_namespace, isclusteredvirtualserver, and set_pathname_format. Added documentation for the following string.h functions: stpcpy, strecpy, and strerror_r. Added documentation for the following stdio.h functions: getw and vasprintf. Added documentation for the following unilib.h functions: dbcs_width, locnp2uni, uninp2loc, unin2lwr, unin2mono, unin2title, and unin2upr. Added information to the Library Concepts section in Volume 2. Reorganized the threads and NKS concepts, moving the concepts that apply to all thread types to the Thread Overview section in Volume 2.
June 9, 2004	Moved the few POSIX functions in stdio.h from the ANSI section to the POSIX section (POSIX File and Directory Functions). Added documentation for the salvagable file functions: purgeerasedfile, salvageerasedfile, and scanerasedfiles. Added documentation for a few library functions: construct_argc_argv, detect_redirection, getnativethread, getnlmhandlefromthread, and libcthreshold in Volume 2. Added information to Library Concepts in Volume 2. Added documentation for a few settable parameter functions: DeRegisterSettableParameter and RegisterSettableParameter in Volume 2.
February 18, 2004	Added documentation for the nl_types.h, statfs, and ringx.h functions. Added documentation for the pthread reader-writer lock functions and the pthread_attr family of functions. Added documentation for additional NetWare OS functions: extended memory, resource tags, screen handling, and breakpoints. Added documentation for a few new fuctions: basename, lstat, usleep, locnx2unipath, uninx2locpath, getnetwareconsole, getnetwarelogger, screenprintf, vconsoleprintf, vscreenprintf, netware_vol_info_from_name, netware_conn_info, and netware_conn_info_from_slot. Updated the NLM User Interface Developer Components manual for LibC and added it to the LibC manual collection.
July 30, 2003	Added documentation for a few functions: get/settimeofday and fnmatch. Made technical corrections to various functions: cprintf family, tok family, xfrm family, create_identity, getpassword, and procle/procve. Added linker command information to Section I, Getting Started.
July 30, 2003	Added information about the memory leaking commands available in NetWare® 5.1 SP6, NetWare 6.0 SP3, and NetWare 6.5 (see Tracking Memory Leaks with LibC). Added documentation for the System V semaphore functions (see System-V Semaphore Functions in Volume 2). Added information about color printing to setscreenmode. Added documentation for new library functions (see NetWare Library Functions in Volume 2). Several of these functions can be used for debugging an application. Added documentation for functions from langinfo.h and getopt.h.
April 2003	Finished the documentation for the supported wchar.h functions. The wscanf family of functions is not currently supported. Added documentation for pthreads and UNIX International threads. Added documentation for POSIX synchronization functions. Added a separate section for synchronization and moved all synchronization information to it. The thread and synchronization section was renamed “Threads” and now contains information just about threads. Added a separate section for the screen functions and moved all information from the “General Platform Services” section to this new section.
January 2003	Added documentation for the functions in sys/wait.h and iconv.h. Added documentation for the missing functions in utf8.h. Added documentation for some of the wide-character string functions in wchar.h. Because the CLib binaries are now included in the LibC download, updated the installation instructions to reflect this change.
December 2002	Added new material to Section I, Getting Started. Added documentation for the functions in wcype.h, missing functions in ctype.h, the atomic functions in stdlib.h, 64-bit functions, missing functions in stdlib.h and stdio.h, and NetWare OS functions in netware.h and screen.h. Made technical corrections to numerous functions.
October 2002	Removed the documentation for the NX_THREAD_CREATE macro. It has been replaced by the NXThreadCreateSx function. Removed ExitToDOS from the documentation. This function does not exist in NetWare 6 and has been replaced with ShutdownServer. Moved the conceptual material about threads and synchronization primitives to Thread and Timeout Services and updated it. Added information about the current working directory and the Novell® functions that allow POSIX and ANSI functions to use information from the NKS path context. See Section 13.1, Current Working Directory, chdir2, getcwdpath, setcwd, and setcwd2. Added documentation for the “Lstr” prefixed functions in string.h to Standard String Functions. Added documentation for some missing file and directory I/0 functions such as procle, procve, snprintf, and vsnprintf. Added documentation for some missing NetWare platform functions such as _NonAppStart, Alloc, andRegisterCommand . Added documentation for the monitor.h functions which retrieve NetWare memory and operating system statistics. See NetWare Monitoring Functions in Volume 2.
September 2002	Deleted the functions from nks/env.h (NXCopyEnv, NXGetEnv, NXGetEnvCount, NXSetEnv). They are no longer exposed as part of the library, although they can still be called. Updated the documentation for the functions in the following header files: unistd.h, ctype.h, time.h, stdio.h, event.h, and inet.h. Mainly, corrected the documentation although a few new functions from these header files have been added to the documentation. Added documentation for the Unicode functions from unilib.h and the identity functions from client.h. Added documentation for two new library.h functions: validateaddressrange and verifynlmhandle in Volume 2. Grouped the string and file/directory functions and created a section for each header file. Grouped the other functions into service groups. Added some debugging information for Tracking Memory Leaks with LibC and Adding Breakpoints.
May 2002	Added disclaimer to opening page that functions that are not yet documented in the NDK are probably not fully implemented and should not be used in a production environment. Added documentation for flushenv. Updated LibC and CLib, Free, and NKS File and Directory Functions. Added sections on Section 3.5, Reentrancy. Updated the syntaxes of hypot and connect to point to the sockaddr structure. Updated syntax of rand, rand_r to remove the second parameter, value. Changed all NXTRUE and NX_TRUE values to TRUE. Changed all NXFALSE and NX_FALSE values to FALSE. Added Remarks sections to NXMemCtl and NXPageAlloc. Dropped “Management” from name of Environment Variable Functions in Volume 2.
February 2002	Added documentation for RestartServer, ExitToDos, LoadModule, StopServer, and many other functions. Updated the Remarks section of NXLock.
September 2001	Changed the name to Libraries for C (LibC). Added a statement to Section A.2, NKS Return Values about NKS return values always matching LibC's errno.h file. Made minor formatting changes and added graphic descriptions. Added a warning statement to NKS File and Directory Functions. Removed the following structures: NXCond_t, nxFSCookie_t, NXMutex_t, NXRWMutex_t, NXSema_t, and NXSeqCookie_t.
June 2001	Updated all reference information in Section IV, Screen Services. Added NXCreateDirHandle to replace NXOpenDir and NXFreePathContext to replace NXCloseDir. Added NXGetAttrWithHandle, NXSetAttr, NXFileSetLength, NXFileSetLengthWithHandle, and NXThreadGetContext. Updated tables.
February 2001	Added NetWare Platform Functions to Volume 2. Added documentation for NXVmGetInfo, NXVMGetPathSeparator. Added Context-Specific Data to Volume 2. Updated Section A.2, NKS Return Values.
July 2000	Replaced concepts chapter with the following chapters: a general overview, threads and context functionality, the remaining elements of NKS, and the relationship between NKS and LibC.
May 2000	Added access to LibC functions. Added revision history.