I F C H K 0 . 9 5 B E T A 4
Welcome to the fourth beta release of ifchk 0.95. This is a minor release that fixes a potential file race condition and also adds additional file type checking. Both of these changes pertain to the ifchk Linux module The file ~/ifchk-0.95b4/CHANGES discusses this further.
ifchk is now divided into the following components to facilitate program portability and modularity:
(a) A framework providing services such as program startup, event logging,
user identification and help output.
(b) Support for operating system specific plug-in modules that implement
core interface management functionality. Currently, modules exist for Linux (linux.c, linux.h) and IRIX (irix.c, irix.h).
A module is compiled with the framework to produce an ifchk binary.
This release sees the maturation of the above program architecture thus providing the solidity required for future functional developments.
NOTES.
+ If you are building for IRIX, please begin by reading the installation file at ~/ifchk-0.95b4/INSTALL.IRIX.
+ If you are building for Linux, please begin by reading the installation file at ~/ifchk-0.95b4/INSTALL.Linux.
+ The papers directory contains a PDF and Postscript version of a whitepaper discussing Project ifchk from several different perspectives. These include motivations for creating ifchk, program functionality and internal operation in addition to the future directions ifchk will take.
Enjoy.
-Josh Birnbaum <engineer@noorg.org>.