From 2d5d798c24286f10c1bffd5ea4ac466c2c3a12fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:16:39 +0200
Subject: New features * linda honors __tostring and __concat * new accessor
 linda:keys(), to retrieve the list of keys with pending data inside a linda *
 new lanes options packagepath and packagecpath, in case one needs to set them
 differently than the default

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 docs/index.html | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index ba25515..7d61d96 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -263,6 +263,19 @@ also in the new lanes.
     Implementation and dependability of priorities varies
     by platform. Especially Linux kernel 2.6 is not supporting priorities in user mode.
     </td></tr>
+
+    <tr valign="top">
+      <td width="40">
+        <td>
+          <code>.packagepath</code>
+          <br/><code>.packagecpath</code>
+        </td>
+        <td>
+          <code>package.path</code> and <code>package.cpath</code> overrides, if needed.
+          Specifying these when <code>libs_str</code> doesn't cause the <code>package</code> library to be loaded will generate an error.
+          <br>
+    </td>
+    </tr>
   </table>
   <p>Each lane also gets a function <tt>set_debug_threadname()</tt> that it can use anytime to do as the name says.
 Supported debuggers are Microsoft Visual Studio (for the C side) and Decoda (for the Lua side).
@@ -547,7 +560,18 @@ They can be used for making shared tables of storage among the lanes.
 Writing to a slot overwrites existing value, and clears any possible queued
 entries. Table access and <tt>send</tt>/<tt>receive</tt> can be used together;
 reading a slot essentially peeks the next outcoming value of a queue.
-</p>
+</p><p>
+
+    <table border="1" bgcolor="#E0E0FF" cellpadding="10">
+      <tr>
+        <td>
+          <code>[val]= linda_h:keys()</code>
+        </table>
+
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    A way to examine the slots in which a linda contains some pending data to be read.
+  </p>
 
 <!--
 <p>
@@ -961,8 +985,15 @@ its actual value.
 
 <p>
 
-Mar-2011 (2.1.0)
-<ul>
+  Mar-2011 (not yet versioned)
+  <ul>
+    <li>linda honors __tostring and __concat</li>
+    <li>new accessor linda:keys(), to retrieve the list of keys with pending data inside a linda</li>
+    <li>new lanes options packagepath and packagecpath, in case one needs to set them differently than the default</li>
+  </ul>
+
+  Mar-2011 (2.1.0)
+  <ul>
   <li>fixed potential crash at application shutdown when calling lua_close() on a killed thread's VM.</li>
   <li>exposed cancel_test() in the lanes to enable manual testing for cancellation requests.</li>
   <li>removed kludgy {globals={threadName}} support, replaced with a new function set_debug_threadname().</li>
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