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unix v2.7.1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-12-01 // over 9 years ago

    • Bundled with GHC 7.10.1

    • Add support for base-4.8.0.0

    • Tighten SafeHaskell bounds for GHC 7.10+

    • Add haddock comments on RTLD_NEXT and RTLD_DEFAULT

    • Deprecate function haveRtldLocal

    • Fix getGroupEntryForID/getGroupEntryForName on Solaris. Solaris uses CPP macros for required getgrgid_r and getgrnam_r functions definition so the fix is to change from C ABI calling convention to C API calling convention

    • Fix potential type-mismatch in telldir/seekdir FFI imports

    • Use CAPI FFI import for truncate to make sure the LFS-version is used.

    • executeFile: Fix ENOTDIR error for entries with non-directory components in PATH (and instead skip over non-directory PATH-elements)

    • New functions in System.Posix.Unistd:

      • fileSynchronise (aka fsync(2)), and
      • fileSynchroniseDataOnly (aka fdatasync(2))

    • New module System.Posix.Fcntl providing

      • fileAdvise (aka posix_fadvise(2)), and
      • fileAllocate (aka posix_fallocate(2))

    • Fix SIGINFO and SIGWINCH definitions