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*: recursive bump for icu 76 shlib major version bump
*: revbump for icu downgrade
*: recursive bump for icu 76.1 shlib bump
revbump after icu and protobuf updates
*: recursive bump for gnutls p11-kit option (existing installations need the bl3.mk included, but it's now only optionally included)
libfilezilla: update to 0.47.0.
New features:
PKCS#11 support, provided GnuTLS has been compiled with PKCS#11 support enabled
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Added parameter to fz::remove_dir that allows returning an error if the directory did not exist
Add logging of aio reader/writers cannot be opened, fix return value of reader when trying to read nothing
HTTP: Delay sending subsequent requests after having received a response with "Connection: close" set
Listen sockets are now created with the SO_REUSEADDR (SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Windows) flag set
Added cert_type::codesign as key purpose to certificate request and creation functions in fz::tls_layer
libfilezilla: update to 0.46.0. 0.46.0 (2024-02-06) + fz::process: Add io redirection mode that excluded stderr + fz::remove_file and remove_dir now take additional parameter and return fz::result + Added transitional fz::file::read2 and fz::file::write2 returning fz::rwresult, old read/write have been marked deprecated - HTTP: Fix redirect if "Connection: close" header is set
libfilezilla: try requiring gcc 8
to fix
nvoker.cpp: In function 'fz::invoker_factory fz::get_invoker_factory(fz::event_loop&)':
invoker.cpp:28:54: error: 'loop' was not declared in this scope
return [handler = std::optional<thread_invoker>(), &loop](std::function<void()> const& cb) mutable {
^~~~
invoker.cpp: In lambda function:
invoker.cpp:30:20: error: 'loop' is not captured
handler.emplace(loop);
^~~~
invoker.cpp:28:58: note: the lambda has no capture-default
return [handler = std::optional<thread_invoker>(), &loop](std::function<void()> const& cb) mutable {
^
invoker.cpp:28:54: note: '<typeprefixerror>loop' declared here
return [handler = std::optional<thread_invoker>(), &loop](std::function<void()> const& cb) mutable {
^~~~
seen with gcc 7 on NetBSD 9.
*: recursive bump for icu 74.1
libfilezilla: update to 0.45.0. 0.45.0 (2023-10-11) + fz::hash_accumulator now also works with hmac_sha256 + Added is_digest and digest_size to fz::hash_acumulator + MSW: Added function to delete registry values - Fixed a crash and a stall in the HTTP client
*: bump for openssl 3
libfilezilla: update to 0.44.0. 0.44.0 (2023-06-28) + Exportable hash accumulator state + Add for RSA key support for JWS + JWT creation + Conversion functions from X.509 private keys to JWK - Added logging when certificate is untrusted by system trust store 0.43.0 (2023-05-26) + Added fz::tls_layer::generate_cert_from_csr - fz::event_loop performance improvements when timers are in use
libfilezilla: update to 0.42.2. 0.42.2 (2023-04-25) - Further HTTP client fixes 0.42.1 (2023-04-21) - Small HTTP client improvements to force IPv4/IPv6 for new connections, add a header count limit, and to make abuffer pool optional 0.42.0 (2023-04-12) + Added an HTTP client - Sources are now distributed in a .tar.xz - buffer_writer now clears the buffer when opened - Fixes and performance improvements for fz::xml::parser - *nix: fz::file::size() now returns -1 on character devices
revbump after textproc/icu update
libfilezilla: update to 0.41.1.
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Fixed a crash signalling aio waiters
Added listen_socket::from_descriptor
libfilezilla: update to 0.41.0. 0.41.0 (2023-01-12) + Added fz::xml::parser and fz::xml::namespace_parser + Added fz::is_valid_utf8 + Added fz::utf16le_to_utf8_append and fz::utf16be_to_utf8_append
libfilezilla: update to 0.40.0. 0.40.0 (2022-12-12) + Added fz::unicode_codepoint_to_utf8_append + Added fz::strtokenizer + Added fz::check_certificate_status 0.39.2 (2022-10-11) - Fixed removing aio_waiters/event_handlers from aio_waitable - Fixed start offset in view_reader - Fix buffer_writer not releasing added buffers 0.39.1 (2022-09-12) - MSW: Fixed a possible hang in fz::process:kill 0.39.0 (2022-09-05) + Added readwrite mode to fz::file. + MSW: Added fz::dll and fz::shdlls glue + Added fz::ascii_layer - *nix: Fixed mmap error handling in fz::aio_buffer_pool - Fixed a potential deadlock in the aio code - Fixed an issue with calling conventions on 32bit Windows - MSW: fz::datetime::get_tm now works for dates past Y2K38 on toolchains with 32bit time_t - MSW: Fixed an error reading from fz::process
*: bump PKGREVISION for libunistring shlib major bump
libfilezilla: remove probably unnecessary comment
libfilezilla: use atomic64.mk Simplify, no need for one block in Makefile and a hacks.mk to cover fewer architectures than atomic64.mk does.
libfilezilla: update to 0.38.1. 0.38.1 (2022-07-20) + fz::aio_waitable now also accepts event handlers in addition to aio_waiter - Split fz::process::kill into separate stop and kill functions 0.38.0 (2022-07-08) + Added readers and writers for asynchronous disk I/O operating on a buffer pool + Added fz::current_username() + Added fz::event_handler::stop_add_timer + Added overload for fz::event_handler::add_timer that takes a deadline + Added fz::file::set_modification_time + Added fz::get_network_interfaces + *nix: fz::socket can now accept Unix-domain sockets, added fz::socket::send_fd and fz::socke::read_fd - *nix: When impersonating, limit supplementary groups to NGROUPS_MAX
libfilezilla: update to 0.37.2. 0.37.2 (2022-04-29) + Added a null_logger that doesn't do anything - MSW: fz::mkdir with restricted permissions now uses inheritable ACLs - MSW: Minor performance improvements reading from fz::process and explicit cancellation of pending I/O when killing child processes. 0.37.1 (2022-04-08) + Added convenience functions ot fz::json - MSW: Fixed spawning fz::process with blocking communication 0.37.0 (2022-04-01) + *nix: password-less impersonation can take an optional group + Added demo https client showcasing usage of fz::socket and fz::tls_layer + Added some compile-time checks for fz::sprintf arguments + MSW: Added fz::registry + Added a way to use non-blocking read/write with fz::process - Added fz::logger_interface::log_u which assumes string arguments are in UTF-8 as opposed to the character set used by the current locale - Disallow spawning additional threads while fz::thread_pool is in the process of being destroyed - *nix: poll() is now mandatory, the select() based socket event loop has been removed - Simplified fz::socket implementation through use of internal fz::poller
libfilezilla: update to 0.36.0. 0.36.0 (2022-02-02) + Added parameter to tls_layer::set_alpn to control which peer has priority over which ALPN is chosen. + Added fz::hmac_sha1 + Mutex debugging framework to detect locking order inversions that may lead to deadlocks + Add additional io_redirect mode to fz::process_spawn where the parent-side handles for stdin/out/err are always closed - fz::json: Handle object members with empty string as name - Minor performance improvements to removing timers and to spawning processes 0.35.0 (2021-12-08) + *nix: Added fz::forkblock which can be used to safely set FD_CLOEXEC on descriptors even if the system lacks SOCK_CLOCKEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC, pipe2 or accept4 + macOS: Impersonation support + Added fz::tls_layer::set_unexpected_eof_cb, in some situations it may be desirable that unexpected closure is not reported as a hard errror - Added various convenience overloads for fz::buffer - Performance improvement for fz::json::to_string 0.34.2 (2021-10-26) + fz::file::open now returns fz::result - fz::tls_layer: Additional fixes for trust path extration - MSW: fz::local_filesys::get_next_file now handles directory contents returned by the kernel in oversized buffers with embedded nulls 0.34.1 (2021-10-19) - *nix: Handle supplementary groups when impersonating - *nix: fz::recv_fd now sets the MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag - *nix: fz::local_filesys::get_link_target now handles link targets larger than 1024 bytes - MSW: Restrict DLL search path for system DLLs to the system32 directory - fz::tls_layer: Fixed how trust path extration interacts with CRLs 0.34.0 (2021-10-11) - MSW: Load shell32.dll and ole32.dll on-demand at runtime, it is not available in all environments - Made fz::local_filesys movable 0.33.0 (2021-09-29) + MSW: Add local_filesys::begin_find_files overload accepting a directory HANDLE + If peer certificate chain is trusted by the system trust store, tls_session_info::get_certificates now returns the actual path to the trust anchor, use tls_session_info::get_peer_certificates to get the peer certificates as received by the server. GnuTLS 3.7.0 or later is required. - JSON: Correctly handle \u-encoded UTF-16 surrogate pairs 0.32.0 (2021-09-14) + MSW: Impersonation support - Allow more direct control over session ticket/PSK generation under TLS 1.3, requires GnuTLS 3.6.14 or later - Ensure an error is returned if accepting a socket fails - Fixed appending to fz::buffer 0.32.0-beta1 (2021-08-30) + *nix: Impersonation support + *nix: Sending of file descriptors over Unix Domain Sockets * nix: Add local_filesys::begin_find_files overload accepting a directory file descriptor + Allow creating fz::file from a file descriptors/handle, add function to detach the descriptor/handle + Added fz::datetime::operator>= + Added fz::duration::absolute() - fz::sprintf no longer crashes on x and X conversion specifiers if a negative signed integer is passed as argument - Replace std::random_device as the C++ standard allows it to not be random - JSON: Fixed crash if assigning values from nested values - JWS: Fixed memory leak and padding of signature components
revbump for icu and libffi
revbump for boost-libs
libfilezilla: update to 0.31.1. 0.31.1 (2021-08-09) + Added iterator for JSON arrays - *nix: SIGPIPE is now set to SIG_IGN the first time a pipe or socket gets created - Handle empty search string in replace_subscripts
libfilezilla: update to 0.31.0. 0.31.0 (2021-07-28) + Added simple JSON parser + Added basic JWS generator - Made fz::file movable - Fixed empty creation_flag for fz::file if other flags are also passed 0.30.0 (2021-07-09) + Added a flag to fz::file::creation_flags to create files with permissions only granting the current user and administrators access + Added mkdir_permissions flags to fz::mkdir 0.29.0 (2021-07-02) + Added fz::tls_layer::set_min_tls_ver and for testing purposes set_max_tls_ver + The TLS layer now also supports server-side session resumption with TLS <= 1.2 clients not supporting session tickets + Added fz::rename_file + MSW: Added libfilezilla/glue/windows.hpp to set proper defines before including windows.h + Added fz::move_assign_through_move_constructor for classes that depend on normal destruction order even on move assignment - Fixed memory leak in fz::tls_layer::set_alpn - IPv6 listen sockets are now always created with IPV6_V6ONLY to unify behavior across platforms - Fixes for issues found by --socketdebug - Fixed warnings when bool arguments are passed to fz::sprintf - Fixed warnings in fz::to_integral<bool> 0.28.0 (2021-05-03) + Added fz::hostname_lookup + Added fz::datetime::set_rfc3339 + Added fz::load_certificates and fz::load_certificates_file + Added fz::base64_encode_append - Moved some common functionality shared by multiple layers to socket_layer itself - Fixed a crash with older versions of GnuTLS if the system trust store cannot be loaded 0.27.1 (2021-03-15) - Fixed a socket event sequencing invariant violation in tls_layer - Fixed query_string constructor leaving object in undefined state if set fails - Fixed arguments passed from the templated equal_constime helper
revbump for boost-libs
libfilezilla: require gcc 8 Reported by Matthias Petermann on pkgsrc-users.
libfilezilla: update to 0.27.0.
2021-03-04 - libfilezilla 0.27.0 released
New features:
Added fz::normalize_hypens to replace all hyphen-like characters in a string with the good old hyphen-minus
Added fz::pbkdf2_hmac_sha256
Added visibility_helper.hpp to simplify exporting symbols in shared libraries
Added fz::compound_rate_limited_layer to which multiple rate limiters can be dynamically added/removed
Added redirect_io parameter to fz::process::spawn
Added --enable-socketdebug configure argument to check for invariant violation when handling socket events
Added a optional preamble to server_handshake that is sent after initializing the session, but before the SERVER_HELLO
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Various fixes to socket event retriggering if socket_interface::set_event_handler is used
Fixed a nullpointer dereference in fz::tls_layer if a hostname is set prior to creating a session
2020-12-17 - libfilezilla 0.26.0 released
New features:
Added fz::buffer::capacity()
fz::buffer::append now also accepts single characters and std::vector
Added fz::nonowning_buffer
MSW: Added fz::process::handle()
*nix: Allow passing extra file descriptors to child processes
fz::to_wstring_from_utf8 now accepts std::string_view and fz::buffer
fz::replace_substrings and fz::replaced_substrings now accept string views and single characters
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Reset bucket data if it gets removed from a rate_limiter
2020-10-13 - libfilezilla 0.25.0 released
New features:
Added fz::invoker to asynchronously call functions to run in a specific thread independent of the caller's thread
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Added additional checks to fz::buffer to leave the buffer in a valid state in out-of-memory situations and to prevent mis-use
Detect a particular socket buffer tuning issue under Linux where setting a receiver buffer size shrinks the window scale factor
Reordered a few data members to reduce the amount of structure padding due to alignment
libfilezilla: Update to 0.24.1. While here fix the build on SunOS, based on patches in joyent/pkgsrc#266 from mrferda. 0.24.1 (2020-08-27) - fz::to_integral can now handle strongly typed enum return types 0.24.0 (2020-08-21) + Added fz::equal_consttime - fz::sprintf now works corrcetly if arguments are passed as (w)string_view 0.23.0 (2020-07-07) + Added reader/writer locks - fz::mkdir can now return the the longest created path in case of partial failures
libfilezilla: update to 0.22.0. 0.22.0 (2020-05-12) + Added a flag to fz::file to allow creation of files with permissions only granting the current user access + Added fz::mkdir to create local directories, optionally recursive and with permissions to only grant the current user access to the final directory - MSW: Improvements handling directory reparse points - Lengthen partial certificate chains in fz::tls_info to include any found trust anchor if using the system trust store - Mark self-signed certificates in the in fz::x509_certificate - Fix constructing fz::uri from default-constructed string_view 0.21.0 (2020-04-20) + macOS: fz::spawn_detached_process can now start application bundles + Changed arguments of fz::local_filesys::get_next_file to be consistent with fz::local_filesys::get_file_info - Improved error detection for fz::spawn_detached-process on *nix systems that support the pipe2 syscall with O_CLOEXEC
revbump after updating security/nettle
libfilezilla: update to 0.20.2. 0.20.2 (2020-03-10) + Add encrypt_key and decrypt_key to fz::symmetric key - fz::datetime::set_rfc822 now parses the zone offset - Removed unneeded asserts from format.hpp 0.20.1 (2020-02-24) - Fix potential crash after removing the last speed limit bucket - TLS: Fix reported key exchange algorithm and improve details 0.20.0 (2020-02-14) + Added fz::symmetric_key + Added itertions parameter to fz::private_key::from_password + Added fz::base32_encode and fz::base32_decode + Unified all decode functions to always return a vector, added alternatives returning string with a _s suffix in the function name + Changed equal_insensitive_ascii to take (w)string_view
*: recursive bump for libffi
libfilezilla: fix "i386" builds
libfilezilla: update to 0.19.3. 0.19.3 (2019-12-19) - Rate limiting: Fix a divide by zero when distributing overflow 0.19.2 (2019-12-19) + Rate limiting: Added debt repay mechanism to bucket removal - *nix: Fix returned permissions in fz::local_filesys::get_file_info/get_next_file 0.19.1 (2019-11-15) + Return error information to fz::local_filesys::begin_find_files - Fix for version.hpp not getting installed 0.19.0 (2019-11-07) + Addded rate limiting code and a new rate-limited socket layer + Added fz::mutex::try_lock + Implemented libtool's library versioning scheme for shared library builds of libfilezilla
libfilezilla: update to 0.18.2. 0.18.2 (2019-09-16) + Added operator== and != to fz::uri
libfilezilla: update to 0.18.1.
2019-08-15 - libfilezilla 0.18.1 released
New features:
Added fz::buffer::resize
2019-08-02 - libfilezilla 0.18.0 released
New features:
Added fz::spawn_detached_process
Add operator+ to fz::duration
*nix: If available, use eventfd instead of a self-pipe
fz::to_integral and fz::hex_decode now work with string literals
Added fz::listen_socket::fast_accept that only returns a descriptor instead of a fully-initialized fz::socket for use in a tight accept-and-dispatch loop
Functions in libfilezilla/iputils.hpp now take string_view as arguments
Added fz::socket::set_flags which can atomically enable or disable flags
Bugfixes and minor changes:
fz::socket not returns an error instead of silently failing in case of file descriptor exhaustion
Fix socket errors sometimes not being forwarded in fz::tls_layer when when writing fails in the underlying layer
Fix double-closing of socket descriptios if connection establishment fails
fz::tls_layer now fails the handshake instead of waiting indefinitely if started on a layer that has progressed passed the connected state
Small compile-time improvements to fz::sprintf
net/libfilezilla: Set GCC_REQD=7 for C++17 Also, use the new c++17 keyword in USE_LANGUAGES. This commit is not expected to change the produced binaries on any system where it built before.
*: recursive bump for nettle 3.5.1
libfilezilla: update to 0.17.1. 0.17.1 (2019-06-21) + Added support for detached signatures - Fixed crash if using the system trust store 0.17.0 (2019-06-17) + libfilezilla now requires C++17 + Changed a lot of functions to use std::string_view + Added fz::socket_layer as base class for layers on top of sockets + Added fz::tls_layer, a Transport Layer Security layer, requiring GnuTLS 3.5.7 or later + Added fz::translate for gettext-style translatable strings. GNU Gettext is now a built-time (but not runtime) dependency + Added fz::bitscan and fz::bitscan_reverse to get the index of least and most significant bit set + Added fz::logger_interface as a base for logging system - *nix: Small speed-up of fz::local_filesys through the use of fstatat()
libfilezilla: update to 0.16.0.
2019-04-21 - libfilezilla 0.16.0 released
New features:
Add fz::socket
Add operator*= to fz::duration
fz::event_loop can now also be created using fz::thread_pool or threadless.
Bugfixes and minor changes:
fz::async_task now releases the thread back to the pool immediately when the task has completed without waiting for the join
*nix: Fix file descriptor leaks on exec()
Need pthread support, make sure a substitue is present if OS lacks support natively, e.g Minix at present.
libfilezilla: update to 0.15.1. 0.15.1 (2018-11-22) + Add argument to fz::strtok to return empty tokens - Fix compatibility issue with Nettle < 3.3 - Fix fz::random_bytes on MinGW - Fix memory leak in fz::buffer 0.15.0 (2018-10-19) + libfilezilla now depends on Nettle >= 3.1 + Added fz::sha512, fz::sha256, fz::sha1 and fz::md5 hash functions + Added fz::hash_accumulator + Added fz::hmac_sha256 HMAC function + Added asymmetric encryption scheme using X25519 + Added signature scheme using Ed25519 - Changed and documented semantics of the return value of fz::remove_file, removing a non-existing file is not an error 0.14.0 (2018-10-04) + Added fz::equal_insensitive_ascii + Added insensitive_ascii parameter to fz::starts_with and fz::ends_with - Fixed namespace of to_wstring in wx glue 0.13.2 (2018-09-21) - Fix regression in fz::shared_value::clear - Fix parsing of URIs without path 0.13.1 (2018-09-10) + Made fz::scoped_lock movable - Fix a few compiler warnings
libfilezilla: update to 0.13.0. 0.13.0 (2018-07-16) + Add bool return value to replace_substrings to indicate whether something has been replaced. + fz::sprintf: Added %c format specifier - MSW: Work around problematic DLL export of templates, timers now work if libfilezilla has been built as DLL
libfilezilla: update to 0.12.3. 0.12.3 (2018-06-08) + Event handlers can now removed themselves while inside a callback + Added fz::query_string::pairs()
libfilezilla: update to 0.12.2. 0.12.2 (2018-05-05) + Added parameters to base64_encode to control alphabet and padding + Improved performance of less_insensitive_ascii + *nix: Faster conversion between UTF-8 and wchar_t strings.
libfilezilla: update to 0.12.1. 0.12.1 (2018-02-23) + Added fz::buffer::operator== and operator!= - Fixed bug in fz::buffer::get(size_t) 0.12.0 (2018-02-16) + Added fz::datetime::operator bool + Added fz::datetime::get_rfc822 and fz::datetime::set_rfc822
libfilezilla: update to 0.11.2. 0.11.2 (2018-01-05) + Added fz::starts_with and fz::ends_with - Fix usage of delete in the fz::buffer destructor
libfilezilla: update to 0.11.1. 0.11.1 (2017-10-30) + Added fz::file::fsync() to sync data to disk
libfilezilla: update to 0.11.0. 0.11.0 (2017-09-29) + Add fz::buffer class - *nix: fz::process::spawn no longer calls async-signal-unsafe functions between forking and calling execv in the child.
Updated libfilezilla to 0.10.1.
2017-08-14 - libfilezilla 0.10.1 released
Bugfixes and minor changes:
MSW: Improve handling of reparse points in fz::local_filesys
2017-07-10 - libfilezilla 0.10.0 released
New features:
Added fz::percent_encode and fz::percent_encode
Added fz::uri and fz::query_string
Added fz::less_insensitive_ascii for case-insensitive strings in maps
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Moved encoding functions from string.hpp to encode.hpp
Use pkg-config instead of cppunit-config to look for cppunit.
Updated libfilezilla to 0.9.2. 0.9.2 (2017-05-25) + Added fz::random_bytes to obtain a vector of the passed size of uniformly distributed random bytes + Added fz::ltrim and fz::rtim + Added parameter to trim functions which characters to trim + It is now possible to detach threads from async_task
Updated libfilezilla to 0.9.1. 0.9.1 (2017-02-20) + Added a small helper function to fz::file to get the current position in the file + Added another version of fz::to_wstring_from_utf8 that takes a char buffer + length - Fixed extraction of single-character tokens in fz::strtok
Updated libfilezilla to 0.9.0.
2016-11-28 - libfilezilla 0.9.0 released
New features:
Added parameter to fz::to_integral to specify which value is
returned on error.
Added fz::remove_file
Added fz::hex_encode and fz::hex_decode
2016-10-25 - libfilezilla 0.8.0 released
New features:
Added fz::str_toupper_ascii to complement fz::str_tolower_ascii
Added fz::trim and fz::trimmed for removing leading and trailing
whitespace from string
Added fz::str_is_ascii
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Fixed zero-padding for x and X string format conversion specifiers
2016-10-03 - libfilezilla 0.7.1 released
Bugfixes and minor changes:
OS X: Work around a nasty bug in XCode where programs explicitly
compiled for older versions of OS X were silently pulling in
features exclusive to the new version, resulting in crashes at
runtime
MSW: Fix detection of thread creation failures
Updated libfilezilla to 0.6.1.
2016-07-27 - libfilezilla 0.6.1 released
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Fix UTF-8 conversion functions and added a testcase
2016-07-20 - libfilezilla 0.6.0 released
New features:
Add fz::sprintf, a safe replacement for for the C sprintf function
Fix typo in comment.
libfilezilla requires C++14, thus GCC 4.9. PR pkg/51394
Add two patches from upstream that fix wide character support. In particular, this fixes ftp mode. Investigated with upstream by richard@, thank you very much! Bump PKGREVISION.
Update libfilezilla to 0.5.3:
2016-06-20 - libfilezilla 0.5.3 released
New features:
Add fz::replace_substrincs to search and replace substrings in std::(w)string
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Explicitly request large file support on 32bit systems
2016-05-20 - libfilezilla 0.5.2 released
New features:
Add fz::shared_optional::is_same that checks whether two instances share the same underlying pointer value, like a shallow equal.
Add fz::int_to_hex_char as reverse to fz::hex_char_to_int
2016-05-09 - libfilezilla 0.5.1 released
New features:
Add constructore to sparse_optional taking pointers
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Fix compilation on systems where iconv's second argument is const
Import libfilezilla-0.5.0 as net/libfilezilla. libfilezilla is a free, open source C++ library, offering some basic functionality to build high-performing, platform-independent programs. Some of the highlights include: * A typesafe, multi-threaded event system that's very simple to use yet extremely efficient * Timers for periodic events * A datetime class that not only tracks timestamp but also their accuracy, which simplifies dealing with timestamps originating from different sources * Simple process handling for spawning child processes with redirected I/O