HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2

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March 2011 Release Notes, Commands and system calls
• efi_rm (1M) command: Enhanced to recover free space in the EFI volume of the EFI file system.
• fcntl (2) system call: Enhanced to close multiple file descriptors at one time.
• poll (2) system call: Updated so that, if there is no writer at the other end of pipe or fifo, pipe
and fifo file descriptors wait in the poll(2) system call. Upon detecting the termination of a
writer, POLLHUP conditions are set in the return condition of the poll(2) system call.
• pstat_getpathname (2) system call: Enhanced to increase the possibility of returning the
pathname of a file.
• rename (2) and unlink (2) system calls: Enhanced so they no longer return an ETXTBSY error
when invoked on an executing file. To maintain compatibility with existing applications, the
kernel variable mvrm_txtbsy_off can be set to 0 by using adb(1) to return ETXTBSY.
• select (2) system call: Enhanced to make use of the high resolution timer when the nfds
argument for the command is greater than 0. Enabled through the tunable
hires_timeout_enable.
March 2011 Release Notes, Libraries and programming
• JDK/JRE version 6.0.09: Is a new version of the HP-UX 11i Java Development Kit (JDK) 6.0.x
that has been updated to include the Oracle 6.0u22 release's functionality and incorporate
defect and security fixes. Additionally, an experimental version of G1 is provided (initially
supported in our 6.0.08 release). JDK 6.0.09 Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-java-docs or http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-java-docs .
• JDK/JRE version 5.0.21: Is a new version of the HP-UX 11i Java Development Kit (JDK) 5.0.x
that has been updated to include the Oracle 5.0u25 and 5.0u26 releases' functionality and
incorporate defect and security fixes. See JDK 5.0.21 Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/
go/hpux-java-docs or http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-java-docs .
• SDK/RTE version 1.4.2.x: Not included on the OE media. It is available on the AR media and
for download from http://www.hp.com/go/Java.
• SDK/RTE 1.3: Has reached end-of-life and is not included in this release.
March 2011 Release Notes, Internationalization
• Chinese GB18030 Locale Method: Provides conversion support between multibyte file code
and internal wide character process code for the Chinese zh_CN.gb18030 locale.
• Iconv codeset conversion: New iconv converters are added to support the conversion of
the eucJP2004 character set encoding to and from the SJIS2004 character set encoding, both
of which are encodings that support the Japanese JIS X 0213:2004 character set standard.
Other functionality
• There are no changes in March 2011 for the products or features that are normally documented
in this section.
What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 release
The following summaries provide a general picture of how the September 2010 release of HP-UX
11i v3 differs from the March 2010 release of HP-UX 11i v3. For further information, see the
indicated documents or chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2010 Release Notes,
available in its most current version at
http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs
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