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Compatibility of Solaris and Linux Application Programming Interfaces Some of the freeware libraries and supporting utilities that were available on the Solaris 8 Software Companion CD are now integrated in the Solaris 9 operating environment. As a result, software application developers can now develop and compile their freeware applications more easily in the Solaris operating environment. Libraries include glib, GTK+, Jpeg, libpng, Tcl/Tk, libtif, and libxm12. For further information about freeware available on the Solaris media, see "Other Software". |
Solaris 9 |
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Choice of XML Output for Live Upgrade Messages When using Solaris Live Upgrade at the command line, you can now choose XML output with the -X option. This option is for use when writing programs or shell scripts that use Solaris Live Upgrade as a tool. The default output is text, but with the -X option, the XML suitable for machine parsing and interpretation is created. The output for the -X option is XML for all messages, including error, warning, informational, general. See the man page, lucreate(1M). |
Solaris 9 |
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Multiple Page Size Support Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) allows a program to use any hardware-supported page size to access portions of virtual memory. Previously only 8-KB pages were available for a program's stack, heap, or anonymous memory mapped with mmap(). You can tune large, memory-intensive applications performance to use any page size that is supported by hardware for stack, heap, or /dev/zero private memory mapped with mmap(). The use of larger page sizes might significantly improve the performance of programs that intensively use large amounts of memory. For more information, see the man pages for pagesize(1), mpss.so.1(1), ppgsz(1), memcntl(2), mmap(2) and getpagesizes(3C). |
Solaris 9 |
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Improved Multithreading Library The Solaris 9 release includes an improved and faster multithreading library, which was available as the alternate libthread in previous Solaris software releases. For further information, see the Multithreaded Programming Guide and the threads(3THR) man page. |
Solaris 9 |
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Perl Version 5.6.1 A new, default version of the Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) is available in the Solaris 9 release. The new default version of Perl is version 5.6.1. Also included in the Solaris 9 release is an older Perl version, version 5.005_03, which was previously included with the Solaris 8 release. For further information, see the perl(1) man page. |
Solaris 9 |
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Unified diff Format The diff and sccs-sccsdiff commands have been updated to include support for the GNU-style unified diff format in which context lines are only printed once in the listing of differences. For information on these commands, see the diff(1) and sccs-sccsdiff(1) man pages. |
Solaris 9 |
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Sysevent Framework The sysevent framework enables notification of kernel-level and user-level system events, such as hardware and software state changes, errors, and faults, to applications that should be notified of these events. Components of the sysevent framework include the following:
The syseventd daemon is a user-level daemon that accepts delivery of system event buffers from the kernel. After an event buffer has been delivered to syseventd, the daemon then attempts to propagate the event to all interested end-event subscribers. The syseventadm command can be used to configure event specifications that are subsequently used to invoke commands, applications, or scripts in response to a system event. For information on the sysevent kernel and library APIs, see the man pages syseventadm(1M), syseventconfd(1M), and syseventd(1M). See ddi_log_sysevent(9F) for information about driver-level event notification logging. |
Solaris 8 1/01 Updated in Solaris 8 4/01 |
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Kernel Pseudo-Random Number Generator The Solaris Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) which is available through the /dev/random and /dev/urandom devices provides ISVs with a standard interface to access pseudo-random numbers for cryptographic operations, scientific applications, and simulation tools. The PRNG operates in the Solaris kernel and protects the contents of the entropy pool. The PRNG gathers entropic data from kernel memory pages and maintains a high level of randomness at all times. For further information, see the random(7D) man page. |
Solaris 9 |
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Application Interface to Remote Shared Memory on Clusters If you develop applications that extend the use of a Sun Cluster environment, you can benefit from this interface. Using the new Remote Shared Memory (RSM) API, you can program your applications to lower the latency for message passing over high-speed cluster interconnects. Such cluster-aware applications can significantly reduce the time that is required to respond to events in a clustered configuration. You must have Sun Cluster 3.0 installed. Existing Sun Cluster applications will need to be modified to exploit the new interface. For further information, see the Programming Interfaces Guide. Also, the librsm(3LIB) man pages and the "Section 3: Extended Library Functions" (3RSM) man pages include references to RSM. |
Solaris 8 10/01 |
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GNU-Compatible Version of the gettext API Functions The Solaris 9 release provides a GNU-compatible version of the gettext API functions, while maintaining backward compatibility with Solaris gettext API functions.
For further information, see the gettext(3C) man page. |
Solaris 9 |
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Extended File Attributes The UFS, NFS, and TMPFS file systems have been enhanced to include extended file attributes, which enable application developers to associate specific attributes to a file. For example, a developer of a file management application for a windowing system might choose to associate a display icon with a file. For further information, see "File System Enhancements". |
Solaris 9 |
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New Fixed-Priority (FX) Scheduling Class The FX scheduler provides a scheduling policy for processes that require user or application control of scheduling priorities. See "System Resources Enhancements". |
Solaris 9 |
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service enables host systems to receive IP addresses and network configuration information at boot time from a network server. Before the Solaris 8 7/01 release, DHCP configuration data could only be stored in text files or NIS+. Now, data access in the Solaris DHCP service has been redesigned to use a modular framework. Solaris DHCP provides an API that enables you to write shared objects to support any data storage facility for storing DHCP data. The Solaris DHCP Service Developer's Guide provides an overview of the data access framework that is used by Solaris DHCP, general guidelines for developers, and a listing of the API functions that you can use to write a module to support a new data store. For further information, see the Solaris DHCP Service Developer's Guide. |
Solaris 8 7/01 |
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Solaris Web Start Wizards SDK 3.0.1 Solaris Web Start Wizards simplify the installation, setup, and administration of native Solaris, Java, and non-Java applications. With Solaris Web Start Wizards software, developers can copackage both Solaris and Microsoft Windows versions of their applications. The installation wizard manages the platform specifics. The Web Start Wizards SDK 3.0.1 is now included with the Solaris 9 release and can be installed by using the Solaris Web Start installation program. |
Solaris 9 |
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Modular Debugger (mdb) mdb(1) is an extensible utility for low-level debugging and editing of the live operating system, operating system crash dumps, user processes, user process core dumps, and object files. In the Solaris 9 release, mdb provides new symbolic debugging support for the Solaris kernel, new kernel debugger commands, new features for examination and control of live running user processes, and the ability to examine raw disk files and devices. The Solaris Modular Debugger Guide and mdb(1) man page provide more information. |
Solaris 9 |
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Audio Enhancements New audio directories have been added to the Solaris 9 operating environment. /usr/include/audio is a new directory for application audio header files. The audio file format has a new header file, /usr/include/audio/au.h, and man page, au(4). /usr/share/audio is a new depository for miscellaneous audio files. The audio files from /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds have been moved here. A symbolic link from /usr/demo/SOUNDS/sounds to /usr/share/audio/samples/au has been created so that current applications and scripts run without failure. Numerous bug fixes have been made to the audio kernel modules to improve reliability. For further information, see the System Administration Guide: Basic Administration. |
Solaris 9 |
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Vectored Sendfile System Call: sendfilev() sendfilev(), a vectored sendfile system call, enables better performance for sending data from application buffers or files. For example, in web performance, a web server can construct an HTTP response (header, data, and trailer as well as server side includes) in a single system call. This feature provides optimal performance with the Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA), because it enables the return of multiple chunks, which might come from various files for the response. For further information, see the man page sendfilev(3EXT). |
Solaris 8 7/01 |
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Verify File Conformance With the appcert Utility The appcert utility verifies an object file's conformance to the Solaris ABI. Conforming to the Solaris ABI greatly increases an application's probability of being compatible with future releases of Solaris software. For more information, see "Using appcert" in the Programming Interfaces Guide. |
Solaris 8 4/01 |
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Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS-API) The Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS-API) is a security framework that enables applications to protect the data they transmit. See "Security Enhancements". |
Solaris 8 6/00 |
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