Revision history for Perl extension IPC::Shareable.

1.01    2021-06-24
    - Added 'graceful' flag option. With exclusive, if a second process
      attempts to tie an exclusive segment, we exit gracefully instead of
      croaking

1.00    2021-06-09
    - Added global_register() and process_register() to return the
      registries of active segments and semaphores
    - Added seg() and sem() methods, returns the structure of a shared
      memory segment and a sempahore respectively
    - Added initial "persist" hash variables. Separate processes (even
      multiple files in multiple windows) can share a variable, and it'll
      remain available even after all processes exit. The variable will be
      re-attached if the same shared segment key is used in subsequent runs
    - Reversed order of Changes file
    - Removed trace() and debug() code for ease of reading
    - Improved exception/error messages, added exception testing, reduced
      and minimized the number of exceptions actually uncaught
    - Significant POD cleanup
    - 100% rewrite of all test files, and added a slew of new ones, all
      using Test::More
    - Add build requirement of Test::SharedFork to handle the out of
      sequence fork() tests in t/35-clean.t and t/30-lock_operations
    - Major POD updates
    - Added tests to prove that RT 123057 isn't really an issue (ie. segment
      size parameter works correctly)

0.61  Mon Oct  8 00:27:39 2012
    - Added patch from Frank Lichtenheld fixing IPC::Shareable's dependence
      on the presence of a perl bug which is no longer present in
      perl >= 5.10
    - Fixed bug reported by Dan Harbin where the FETCH operation on a tie()d
      string containing HASH, ARRAY, or SCALAR fails because it was using
      the stringification of the data to determine what kind of reference
      it was.  Now using Scalar::Util::reftype
    - Added missing dependency on IPC::Semaphore to Makefile.PL (reported
      by Adrian Issott)
    - Added a 'sleep 1' in a test that was hanging on certain systems
      due (possibly) to two alarm signals coming too quickly to the
      child process.  From Ton Voon.

0.60  Mon Mar  5 15:20:18 EST 2001
    - Lee Lindley (lee.lindley@bigfoot.com) added the _was_changed
      optimization, improved the locking functionality, fixed
      numerous bugs, and generally cleaned things up; thanks.
    - Removed support for "no" as a false value in arguments;
      thanks to Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

0.54  Mon Jan  8 11:52:28 EST 2001
    - Fix to allow IPC::Shareable to work with 1.0.* versions of
      Storable

0.53  Tue Nov 14 00:33:35 EST 2000
    - Fixed race condition in test suite causing intermitent
      failures.
    - Better checking for success of calls to Storable::thaw();
      thanks to Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>.

0.52  Thu Sep 14 12:30:17 EDT 2000
    - Now STORE, PUSH, POP, etc all call _thaw() before doing
      their business.
    - Refined SIGALRM handlers in test scripts
    - Fixed concurrency issues affecting tied arrays and hashes;
      thanks to thanks to Robert Emmery <roberte@netscape.com>,
      Terry Ewing <terry@intevo.com>, Tim Fries
      <timf@dicecorp.com>, and Joe Thomas <jthomas@women.com>.
    - Doc fixes thanks to Paul Makepeace
      <Paul.Makepeace@realprogrammers.com>

0.51  Fri May  5 23:47:06 EDT 2000
    - Fixed bug that would cause IPC::Shareable::BUF_SIZ to be
      ignored; thanks to Robert Emmery <roberte@netscape.com> and
      Mohammed J. Kabir <kabir@intevo.com> for reporting.
    - Stopped tests from leaking shm segments
    - Added test of argument parsing
    - doc fixes

0.50 Tue Mar 21 11:56:32 EST 2000
    - Complete rewrite incorporating the following changes.
    - Requires 5.00503.  This allowed the module to get rid of the
      global cache for shared memory segments; each Shareable
      object now carries around its own data.
    - 5.00503 also allowed tied arrays to be implemented
    - Shared memory segments can no longer be of infinite length
      thereby reducing the amount of code in the module by a
      factor of 2.
    - Uses IPC::Shareable::SharedMem class for accessing
      shared memory.
    - Uses IPC::Semaphore module for accessing semaphores.
    - Completely revisited the way references are dealed with: all
      referenced thingies are now automagically tied to shared
      memory.
    - Constants now imported from IPC::SysV; Shareable.xs is gone
    - Rewrote test suite and moved into t subdirectory
    - Updated man page

 0.30 Mon Jan 19 11:13:41 EST 1998
    - Added SEM_UNDO to semop() calls; Maurice Aubrey.
    - Fixed some bugs in the locking code; Maurice Aubrey.
    - Made calls to debug() conditional for efficency; Maurice Aubrey.
    - Fixed a signal handler in test.pl; Maurice Aubrey.

0.29  Mon Jan 12 13:49:42 EST 1998
    - $MAXVER patch for when the version semaphore reaches its limit
      and rolls back over to 0; Maurice Aubrey <maurice@hevanet.com>.
    - patch to quieten things down under -w; Doug MacEachern
      <dougm@telebusiness.co.nz>

0.28  Wed Oct 22 14:59:08 EDT 1997
    - cleaned up the way thingys are magically tied; Ben Sugars.
    - moved many subroutines so that they are auto-loaded; Ben
      Sugars.
    - updated man page; Ben Sugars.

0.26  Mon Oct 20 10:06:43 EDT 1997
    - fixed bug regarding assigning a reference to an empty
      hash to a tied variable.  Thanks to Jason Stevens.

0.25  Tue Oct  7 14:41:49 EDT 1997
    - added more checking of sem*() and shm*() return values;
      Michael Stevens and Ben Sugars.
    - added shlock and shunlock; Ben Sugars.
    - fixed bug that would cause modifications of magically
      referenced thingys to fail.  Thanks to Maurice Aubrey

0.20  Thu Aug 28 15:13:46 EDT 1997
    - added ability to magically create ties to implicitly
      referenced thingys; Ben Sugars.

0.18  Thu Aug 28 09:12:30 EDT 1997
    - fixed garbage collection bug; Ben Sugars.  Thanks to
      Michael Stevens <michael@imaginet.co.uk> for the patch.

0.17  Wed Aug 27 15:57:11 EDT 1997
    - fixed some bugs in &parse_argument_hash; Ben Sugars.

0.16  Mon Aug 11 16:10:54 EDT 1997
    - new shared memory segments now initialized with null
      values; Ben Sugars.

0.15  Fri Aug  8 15:45:29 EDT 1997
    - implemented locking using semaphores; Ben Sugars.

0.12  Thu Aug  7 14:47:42 EDT 1997
    - various bug fixes; Ben Sugars.

0.11  Wed Aug  6 10:14:49 EDT 1997
    - initial implementation of semaphores for versioning and
      caching; Ben Sugars.

0.10  Fri Aug  1 13:32:52 EDT 1997
    - can now tie both scalars and hashes of arbitrary length;
      Ben Sugars.

0.05  Wed Jul 30 15:02:31 EDT 1997
    - scalars can now be tied; Ben Sugars.

0.01  Wed Jul 30 09:00:53 1997
    - original version; created by h2xs 1.18.
