Revision history for Perl extension IPC::Locker

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* IPC::Locker 1.434 10/13/2005

**	NEWS is now renamed Changes, to support CPAN indexing. [Offer Kaye]

****	Fixed initalization scripts.

* IPC::Locker 1.433 12/1/2004

***	Fix filename conflict on Windows

* IPC::Locker 1.431 9/13/2004

***	Disassociate pidstatd from stdout so runs better as deamon.

* IPC::Locker 1.430 1/27/2004

****	Warn about non-root pidstatd initialization.

* IPC::Locker 1.420 7/24/2003

**	Added pidstat tool for querying the daemon. [by Stephen Adkins]

***	Added pid_request_recv method.

***	Added pid=># parameter for setting PID to track. [Stephen Adkins]

* IPC::Locker 1.410 1/31/2003

***	Added lock_list() method.  [by Anton Berezin]

* IPC::Locker 1.401 8/22/2002

****	Fix tests to start the servers automatically.

* IPC::Locker 1.400 8/1/2002

**	Added pidstatd deamon and pidwatch program.
	Optional.  If running, allows for autounlocking across any hosts,
	and for any generic application to determine if a PID exists on the
	server's machine.

***	Added ping() method for determining if a server is up.

***	Added example init.d/lockerd file.

* IPC::Locker 1.300 04/03/2002

**	Added autounlock switch to locks.  This records the host
	and pid which obtained the lock, and if that PID disappears
	the lock is released to a new host.  [Stephen Adkins]

***	Fixed bug which made lockerd --port option not work.

***	Allow colon seperated hostnames for fallback hosting.

* IPC::Locker 1.200 11/15/2001

**	Allow multiple lock names on lock requests,
	and return the first one which becomes free. [Mike Lopresti]

**	A zero timeout will disable timeouts.  [James FitzGibbon]

* IPC::Locker 1.14 2/13/2000

**	Changed default port to 'lockerd' which will look up the port
	number in /etc/services.  If not found defaults to old 1751.

***	Improved detection and recovery of daemon failures.

* IPC::Locker 1.12 5/24/2000

**	Added support for Unix named sockets
	[Written by kaspar@lifosa.com]

***	Fixed bug where lock expiration timer would fire at wrong time

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