boinc/checkin_notes

David  3 Jan 2010
    - client: ATI available RAM wasn't being detected correctly

    client/
        coproc_detect.cpp

David  4 Jan 2010
    - web: don't show news items if they're hidden

    html/inc/
        news.inc

David  4 Jan 2010
    - client: RSS feed stuff

    client/
        cs_notice.cpp,h
    lib/
        notice.cpp

Rom    4 Jan 2010
    - lib: fixup notice RPCs to make them manager compatible.
    - lib: remove memset from notice constructor, bad things can happen
        when you null out a std::string structure.
        
    lib/
        gui_rpc_client.h
        gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp
        notice.cpp, .h

Rom    4 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Implement Notice RPC infrastructure.
    
    clientgui/
        AsyncRPC.cpp, .h
        MainDocument.cpp, .h

Rom    4 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Implement UI plumbing for notices

    clientgui/
        ViewNotifications.cpp, .h

Rom    4 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Display each notice in the notices tab.

    clientgui/
        MainDocument.cpp
        ViewNotifications.cpp, .h

David  4 Jan 2010
    - GUI RPC: return notices in order of increasing seqno, not decreasing
    client/
        cs_notice.cpp

Rom    4 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Present the newest notices first.

    clientgui/
        MainDocument.cpp
    lib/
        gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp

Bernd  5 Jan 2010
    a couple of locality scheduling fixes:
    - remove obsolete and buggy code from transitioner (create_result() in backend_lib)
    - account for 'mixed' scheduling in explain_to_user() in sched_send.cpp
    - finish transition to configurable patterns for distinguishing files reported by the client
      in the Einstein@home-specific part of send_work_locality in sched_locality
      (removed previous hardcoded strcmps)

    tools/
        backend_lib.cpp
    sched/
        sched_send.cpp
        sched_locality.cpp

David  4 Jan 2010
    - code shuffle

    client/
        work_fetch.cpp

David  4 Jan 2010
    - client: fix format strings for ninstances (can be fraction now)

    client/
        scheduler_op.cpp
        work_fetch.cpp

David  5 Jan 2010
    - client: scheduling problem:
        - a project overestimates job FLOP counts
        - the client starts jobs in EDF mode
        - as job progresses and fraction done increases,
            its completion time estimate decreases until
            it's no longer a deadline miss.
        - job gets preempted by other job from that project;
            you end up with lots of partly completed jobs.
        Solution (I hope): if an app version has running jobs,
            compute a "temp DCF" for the app version,
            which is the min of dynamic/static estimates for its jobs.
            Apply this scaling factor to completion time estimates
            for unstarted jobs in RR simulation
    - client: the estimation of remaining time of running jobs was wrong
        (how did this bug survive so long?)

    client/
        app.h
        client_types.h
        rr_sim.cpp
        work_fetch.cpp

Charlie  6 Jan 2010
    - client: Eliminate x86_64 Mac client; i386 client determines if 
        system supports x86_64 applications and sets HOSTTYPE and 
        platform accordingly.  This allows us to link with the 32-bit 
        CUDA libraries.  The one other effect is that the benchmarks 
        are run in 32-bit mode even on a 64-bit capable Mac.
    - client: Async get_state RPC was not updating state.have_ati field.
    - MGR: Rebuild Advanced Menu and Taskbar Menu after connecting to 
        client, so GPU Activity and Snooze GPU items are displayed if 
        needed.
        
    client/
        cs_cmdline.cpp
        cs_platforms.cpp
    clientgui/
        AdvancedFrame.cpp
        AsyncRPC.cpp
        sg_BoincSimpleGUI.cpp
        mac/
            config.h
     mac_build/
        boinc.xcodeproj/
            project.pbxproj

David  6 Jan 2010
    - client: bug in ACTIVE_TASK::est_dur()

    client/
        work_fetch.cpp

David  6 Jan 2010
    - client: notice fixes

    client/
        client_state.cpp
        cs_notice.cpp,h

David  6 Jan 2010
    - admin web: allow setting per-app HR class

    html/ops/
        manage_apps.php

Charlie  6 Jan 2010
    - client: Fix compiler warning.
    - client: Fix crash bug.
        NOTE: do not call memset(this, 0, sizeof(*this)) when the data 
        contains a std::string.

    client/
        cs_notice.cpp

David  6 Jan 2010
    - boinccmd: add --get_notices option

    client/
        boinc_cmd.cpp

Charlie  7 Jan 2010
    - Mac: Fix bug in backtrace code which showed up only under OS 10.6.

    lib/
        mac/
            mac_backtrace.C

Charlie  7 Jan 2010
    - Mac: Fix bug in backtrace code which showed up only under OS 10.6.
    - Mac installer: Add CUDA information to Mac ReadMe files.

    lib/
        mac/
            mac_backtrace.C
    mac_installer/
        GR-ReadMe.rtf
        PTP-ReadMe.rtf
        ReadMe.rtf

David  7 Jan 2010
    - manager: tweak notice appearance

    client/
        cs_notice.cpp
    clientgui/
        ViewNotifications.cpp

David  7 Jan 2010
    - client: work fetch fix: avoid sending null request in certain cases.
    - client: fix crash in notices code
    client/
        cs_notice.cpp
        work_fetch.cpp

Rom    7 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Prevent timer events from causing recursive ui issues.
    
    clientgui/
        ViewNotifications.cpp

Charlie  8 Jan 2010
    - client: Fix another crash bug due to calling memset(this, 0, sizeof(*this))
        when the data contains a std::string.

    client/
        cs_notice.cpp

Charlie  8 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Separate refresh of Event Log from refresh of tabs.
    - MGR: Update Notices tab only when data has changed.
    - MGR: Clean up some async RPC logic.
    
    clientgui/
        AdvancedFrame.cpp
        AsyncRPC.cpp, .h
        DlgEventLog.cpp, .h
        MainDocument.cpp, .h
        sg_BoincSimpleGUI.cpp
        ViewNotifications.cpp, .h

Charlie  8 Jan 2010
    - MGR: When Event Log is open, do get_messages RPC once per second but 
        do view-specific periodic RPCs at their normal View refresh rate.

    clientgui/
        AdvancedFrame.cpp
        BOINCBaseFrame.cpp, .h
        MainDocument.cpp, .h

David  9 Jan 2010
    - client (Mac): append /usr/local/cuda/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
        and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
    - client simulator: compile fixes

    client/
        app.cpp
        app_start.cpp
        client_state.h
        cs_apps.cpp
        rr_sim.cpp
        sim.cpp,h
        time_stats.cpp
        work_fetch.cpp

David  9 Jan 2010
    - user web: make user search translatable
    html/user/
        donations.php
        user_search.php

David  10 Jan 2010
    - client: fix notification display logic

    clientgui/
        ViewNotifications.cpp

David  10 Jan 2010
    - fix python deprecation warning (from Jeremy Cowles)

    py/Boinc/
        tools.py

David  11 Jan 2010
    - API: if app can't acquire lock file, tell the client not
        to restart app for 10 minutes.
        Hopefully what will happen is:
        - another instance of app is running in slot dir
            (shouldn't happen, but sometimes does)
        - that app will eventually finish, and will write
            a checkpoint file saying so.
            It will call boinc_finish(0), but the client won't notice
            that it has exited.
        - the next time the client starts the app,
            it will acquire lock, see that it's done,
            and call boinc_finish(0).
            This time the client will notice,
            and the job will be reported as correct.
        The downside to all this is that the client won't know
        that the CPU is in use, and will schedule NCPUS jobs.

    api/
        boinc_api.cpp

Charlie  12 Jan 2010
    - client sandbox: set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in switcher.
        For unknown reasons, the these 2 environment variables are not 
        passed in to switcher, though all other environment variables do get 
        propagated.  

    client/
        switcher.cpp
     mac_build/
        boinc.xcodeproj/
            project.pbxproj

Bernd  12 Jan 2010
    - file_deleter:
      - Limit the number of files to be deleted in one 'antique
        deletion' pass to 50000 (can be changed with -delete_antiques_limit).
    Previously large number of antiques led to not deleting any at all.
      - Allow to change the interval between passes with -delete_antiques_interval.
      - Allow to specify the name of an application instead of the appid.

    sched/
        file_deleter.cpp

David  12 Jan 2010
    - client: add <stderr_head> config option;
        sends the first rather than last 64KB of stderr to server.
        This doesn't belong here; this choice should come from the server.
        I may take this out later.
    - user web: when add a private message, always add a notification

    client/
        app_control.cpp
        log_flags.cpp,h
    html/
        inc/
            news.inc
            pm.inc
        project.sample/
            project.inc
        user/
            edit_form_preferences_form.php
            rss_main.php
    lib/
        util.cpp

David  12 Jan 2010
    - manager: "Notifications" => "Notices".  Consistent terminology.

    clientgui/
        Events.h
        AdvancedFrame.cpp
        Makefile.am
        ViewNotifications* -> ViewNotices*

David  12 Jan 2010
    - client: small tweak to work fetch:
        if project has crazy DCF, don't automatically request 1 sec;
        only request work if there's a shortfall.
    - intermediate checkin for notices stuff

    client/
        Makefile.am
        work_fetch.cpp
    html/
        inc/
            forum_rss.inc
            notify.inc
            pm.inc
        user/
            notices.php (new)
    sched
        handle_request.cpp
        sched_types.cpp,h

David  12 Jan 2010
    - Notices: put message bodies inside CDATA
    - XML_PARSER: handle CDATA

    client/
        cs_notice.cpp,h
    lib/
        notice.cpp
        parse.cpp,h

Charlie  13 Jan 2010
    - MGR: The fix of 14 Oct 2009 for "initial first connection problem on 
        startup" caused the Tools menu to be incorrect when switching from 
        Simple to Advanced View if using an account manager: solve this by 
        calling pDoc->IsConnected() in CAdvancedFrame::CreateMenu() instead 
        of using bool argument bRPCsSafe.  Remove unused bRPCsSafe arg from 
        CAdvancedFrame::CreateNotebook(), CAdvancedFrame::CreateStatusbar(). 
    - Mac: Update XCode project for ViewNotifications* -> ViewNotices*.
        
    clientgui/
        AdvancedFrame.cpp, .h
     mac_build/
        boinc.xcodeproj/
            project.pbxproj

David  13 Jan 2010
    - server: client version numbers are represented as
        10000*major + 100*minor + release,
        rather than 100*major + minor.
        Sometimes you need release-level resolution.
        This affects:
        - app_version.min_core_version
        - config: min_core_client_version_announced
        - config: min_core_client_version
        Projects using these must multiply them by 100.

    html/inc/
        notify.inc
        forum_rss.inc
    sched/
        sched_types.cpp,h
        sched_send.cpp
        handle_request.cpp

David  13 Jan 2010
    - scheduler: close DB connection on SIGTERM (from Bernd M.)

    sched/
        sched_main.cpp

David  13 Jan 2010
    - manager: in Notices tab, direct links to default web browser

    clientgui/
        ViewNotices.cpp,h

Rom    14 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Use an event handler, the function overload is deprecated.
    
    clientgui/
        ViewNotices.cpp,h
    
David  15 Jan 2010
    - web DB code: fix PHP warning when enumeration returns nothing.
        From Nicolas. fixes #974
    - client: tiny code shuffle

    client/
        work_fetch.cpp
        cpu_sched.cpp
    html/inc/
        db_conn.inc

David  15 Jan 2010
    - user web: make a bunch of strings translatable (from Nicolas)

    html/
        inc/
            pm.inc
            user.inc
            util.inc
        user/
            language_select.php
            edit_passwd_form.php
            edit_email_form.php
    locale/templates/
        BOINC-Project-Generic.pot

Charlie  16 Jan 2010
    - Mac Installer: fix bug launching client when configured as a service.
    
    mac_installer/
        PostInstall.cpp

David  17 Jan 2010
    - scheduler/feeder: if any client version number field
        (min_core_version etc.) is < 10000,
        multiply it by 100 and print a warning.

    sched/
        sched_config.cpp
        sched_send.cpp
        sched_shmem.cpp
        handle_request.cpp

Rytis  18 Jan 2010
    - user web: do SQL escaping before storing prefs in the database as some
        projects store user-editable strings in the preferences.

    html/inc/
        prefs.inc

David  18 Jan 2010
    - scheduler: use COPROC_REQ instead of COPROC when parsing
        anonymous-platform app versions.
        Otherwise fractional GPU requirements get truncated to zero.
        Thanks to Crunch3r for identifying the problem.

    sched/
        sched_types.cpp
    
David  18 Jan 2010
    - API: fix crashing bug.  Don't memset(0) APP_INIT_DATA;
        it contains HOST_INFO, which now contains COPROCS,
        which has a vector.
        Define a clear() for APP_INIT_DATA.

    lib/
        app_ipc.cpp,h

David  18 Jan 2010
    - client: initial checkin for "don't compute if CPU usage above X"

    client/
        app.cpp,h
        coproc_detect.cpp
        cs_prefs.cpp
    lib/
        common_defs.h
        procinfo_win.cpp
    win_build/
        libboinc.vcproj

David  18 Jan 2010
    - client and user web: finish the above.
        Should add the Adv Prefs dialog as well.

    client/
        cs_prefs.cpp
    html/inc/
        prefs.inc
    lib/
        prefs.cpp,h

Rom    19 Jan 2010
    - lib: Don't allow the diagnostics threads to be suspended.
        If a crash happens within the remaining threads
        the process will deadlock.

    lib/
        diagnostics.h
        diagnostics_win.cpp
        win_util.cpp

David  19 Jan 2010
    - API: fix crashing bug.  There was a leftover memset(aid, 0)
        in boinc_parse_init_data_file()
    - client sim: make it work again

    api/
        boinc_api.cpp
    client/
        sim.cpp
        sim_util.cpp

David  19 Jan 2010
    - web: translation fix from Nicolas:
        "There is a bug in tra() that causes problems if one of the arguments
        contains a replacement marker itself. For example, if the first
        argument contains an encoded URL, which contains '%2', the second
        argument may appear in the middle of the URL."
    - client simulator: further fiddling around.  Not done.

    html/inc/
        translation.inc
    client/
        sim.cpp
        work_fetch.cpp
        cpu_sched.cpp

David  19 Jan 2010
    - client simulator: done for now

    client/
        sim.cpp
        rr_sim.cpp

David  19 Jan 2010
    - client: brute-force attempt at eliminating domino-effect preemption:
        if job A is unstarted and EDF,
        and there's a job B that is later in the list,
        is started, has the same app version,
        and has the same arrival time,
        move A after B.
    - client: remove the "temp_dcf" mechanism,
        which had the same goal but didn't work.
    - client: in computing overall debt for a project,
        subtract a term that reflects pending work.
        This should reduce repeated fetches from the same project.
    - client simulator: tweaks

    client/
        client_types.h
        cpu_sched.cpp
        rr_sim.cpp
        sim.cpp,h
        sim_util.cpp
        work_fetch.cpp,h
    html/user/
        language_select.php

Charlie  21 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Implement Mac accessibility for Event Log.

    clientgui/
        BOINCListCtrl.h
        DlgEventLogListCtrl.cpp, .h
        mac/
            MacAccessiblity.cpp, .h

Bernd 21 Jan 2010
    - lib: Updated Makefile.mingw to include coproc.cpp/h

    lib/
        Makefile.mingw

Charlie  22 Jan 2010
    - Mac Sandbox: To keep authenticators private, make all .xml files readable 
        only by user and group boinc_master; except ss_config.xml is world-
        readable so screensaver coordinator can access it.  All other files 
        except gui_rpc_auth.cfg are world-readable to allow access by 
        screensavers. 

    clientgui/
        mac/
            SetupSecurity.cpp
    mac_build/
        Mac_SA_Secure.sh

Bernd 22 Jan 2010
    lib: add cal.h to install headers

    lib/
        Makefile.am

David  22 Jan 2010
    - user web: clean up LANG_NAME_* mess

    html/
        ops/
            build_po_boinc.php
        user/
            language_select.php

David  22 Jan 2010
    - DB purge: allow fractional min_age_days (from Travis Desell)

    sched/
        db_purge.cpp
        transitioner.cpp

David  22 Jan 2010
    - user web: don't show "database error" if result refers
        to deleted app version

    client/
        app_start.cpp
    html/inc/
        result.inc
    sched/
        transitioner.cpp

David  25 Jan 2010
    - transitioner: fix bug where WUs with error_mask <> 0 keep
        transitioning every 10 days, hence never become eligible for purging.
        The problem: the transitioner has a "safety net" where,
        if the WU doesn't have a canonical result,
        it arranges for another transition in 10 days.
        Skip this if error_mask<>0.

    sched/
        transitioner.cpp

David  25 Jan 2010
    - client: when launching app, delete init_data.xml using switcher
        prior to trying to write it,
        in case it's owned by another user (e.g., boinc_project)

    client/
        app_start.cpp

David  26 Jan 2010
    - client/manager: eliminate duplicate notices.
        When appending a new notice, we check whether one with
        the same title and description is present already.
        If so we remove one or the other, depending on the situation.

        This introduces the possibility of "holes" in the seqno space.
        In order that the manager learns of these deletions,
        we use the following mechanism:
        whenever a notice is removed (because it's a dup or too old)
        a flag is set in each GUI_RPC_CONN.
        On the next get_notice() RPC, the client returns the entire
        list of notices, preceded by a dummy notice with seqno=-1;
        this tells the RPC stub function to replace the current list
        rather than appending to it.

    client/
        client_msgs.cpp
        cs_notice.cpp,h
        gui_rpc_server.h
        gui_rpc_server_ops.cpp
    samples/multi_thread/
        multi_thread.cpp

David  26 Jan 2010
    - web: assume all translation files are UTF-8

    html/
        inc/
            util.inc
        ops/
            build_po_boinc.php
        user/
            sample_index.php

Charlie  26 Jan 2010
    - Mac Sandbox: The init_data.xml file in each slot directory also contains 
        an authenticator; to keep these private, change ownership of the "slots" 
        directory to boinc_master:boinc_project and eliminate read and execute 
        permissions of this directory for "other".  For consistency, make the 
        same changes to the "projects" directory.  The individual slot and 
        project directories are still world-executable and they and their 
        contents are still world-readable, so the Client can still read files 
        created by project apps with ownership boinc_project:boinc_project.
      - NOTE: I believe this should not cause any problems for either BOINC or 
        project applications, but it needs to be tested thoroughly.

    client/
        check_security.cpp
        file_names.cpp
    clientgui/
        mac/
            SetupSecurity.cpp
    doc/
        sandbox.php
    mac_build/
        Mac_SA_Insecure.sh
        Mac_SA_Secure.sh

Charlie  27 Jan 2010
    - MGR: Fix minor bugs in Mac accessibility reporting kAXWindowAttribute and 
        kAXTopLevelUIElementAttribute.

    clientgui/
        mac/
            MacAccessiblity.cpp

David  27 Jan 2010
    - client: fix small bug that could interfere with work fetch
        on hosts with both NVIDIA and ATI GPU

    client/
        work_fetch.cpp