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Revision 1.82 by root, Sun Dec 13 02:55:12 2020 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
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3TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
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504:59:03 <kentnl> schmorp: you may want to change the description on Convert-UUlib, because your bundled copy
6 is now better maintained and has fewer security risks than upstreams :p
704:59:49 <kentnl> to the point I've been humoring the idea of cribbing its code and shipping it as a
8 replacement for other things currently using the original uulib
906:51:00 <schmorp> kentnl: well, hmm, but change it to what, it still is an interface to "a" uulib library at
10 least
1106:52:26 <kentnl> Maybe "Convert to/from uuencoded data in C" or something like that.
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13 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK dn use Smerge -1.
14 - some micro-optimisations.
15 - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
16 which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
17 - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
18 - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
19 match speed with large usenet file lists.
20 - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux.
21 - clean up _FP symbol names toi not start with an underscore.
22 - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
23 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
24 - misc very minor code improvements.
25 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
26 - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
27 speed gain.
28 - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
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301.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
31 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
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331.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
34 - new function: GetFileList.
35 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
36 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
37 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
38 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
39 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
40 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
41 which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
42 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
43 the part crcs together to form the file crc.
44 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
45 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
46 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
47 which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
48 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
49 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
50 - use common::sense.
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521.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
53 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
54 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
55 with very slow fgetc.
56
571.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
58 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
59 and some other minor issues.
60
611.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
62 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
63 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
64 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
65 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
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671.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
68 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
69 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
70 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
71 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
72 safely in the future.
73 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
74 - added stability canary support.
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761.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
77 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
78 message is too long.
79 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
80 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
81 before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
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831.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
84 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
85 (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
86 - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
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31.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009 881.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
4 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully. 89 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
5 I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows; 90 I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
6 what he does; 91 what he does;
34 119
351.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008 1201.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
36 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium 121 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
37 to avoid false matches. 122 to avoid false matches.
38 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling. 123 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
39 - removed potentially confusing decide_temp calls from 124 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
40 example decoder. 125 example decoder.
41 126
421.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008 1271.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
43 - don't ask. 128 - don't ask.
44 129

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