- added $LocalHostName config directive
- bugfix: local hostname was pulled too-early, so that some config
directives (namely FQDN settings) did not have any effect
I cleaned up a lot of config variable access along the way. This
version compiles and runs, but does not yet offer any enhanced
functionality. pmrfc5424 is just a dummy that is not yet being used.
... but an alternate approach via pthread_kill. This is somewhat safer as we
do not need to think about the cancel-safeness of all libraries we use.
However, not all inputs can easily supported, so this now is a feature
that can be requested by the input module (the most important ones
request it).
... plus a fix for a long-time bug in obj-types.h. That lead to
the object pointer only then to become NULL when the object was
actually destructed, I discovered this issue during
introduction of the pRcvFrom property in msg_t, but it potentially had other
effects, too. I am not sure if some experienced instability resulted from this
bug OR if its fix will cause harm to so-far "correctly" running code. The later
may very well be. Thus I will change it only for the current branch and also
the beta, but not in all old builds. Let's see how things evolve.
...to enable users to turn off pthread_yield calls which are
counter-productive on multiprocessor machines (but have been
shown to be useful on uniprocessors)
- added the ability to specify an error log function for the
runtime
- removed dependency of core runtime on dirty.h
Note that it is "better" modularity, not perfect. There is still
work to do, but I think we can for the time being proceed with
other things.
