David Sugar - 2000-03-20

Common C++ 0.9.2 was released today.  This new release includes
a set of classes for developing Serial I/O applications.  The Serial I/O
classes are somewhat modeled on the Socket classes, and include C++ Serial I/O "streams" (TTYStream and ttystream), as well as threaded serial sessions and service pool threaded serial I/O.

The goal of the serial I/O support is to develop serial integration servers and manage serial I/O protocols.  Other potential applications one could develop from Common C++ serial I/O support could include threaded remote access servers, data collection applications, etc.

Other changes were made based on some recent test builds under Tru64 Unix.  In particular, some of the ost_types.m4 autoconf support for detecting types correctly was found to be broken, and some of the headers were found to require minor cleanup.

A particular nasty bug with threads that have a self deleting Final() had been found and fixed.