From 3b221af1a8e7ce4d91995ab5ef75dd280f604bb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:05:33 +0000 Subject: * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Describe XDR support. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ winsup/doc/new-features.sgml | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'winsup/doc') diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index de42b9ce6..a2efe0f02 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-03-02 Charles Wilson + + * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Describe XDR support. + 2010-02-26 Corinna Vinschen * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add strptime changes. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 4fa4c256c..4c637aa04 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -140,6 +140,14 @@ In other words, use the /cygdrive mount flags for these paths as well. Recognize NWFS filesystem and workaround broken OS call. + +New support for eXtensible Data Record (XDR) encoding and decoding, +as defined by RFCs 1014, 1832, and 4506. The XDR protocol and +functions are useful for cross-platfrom data exchange, and are +commonly used as the core data interchange format for Remote +Procedure Call (RPC) and NFS. + + -- cgit v1.2.3