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CCTools 2.4.3 Released

We are pleased to announce release 2.4.3 of the Cooperative Computing Tools, including Parrot, Chirp, and other tools which may be downloaded here.

Major items in this release:

  1. New documentation for the Chirp APIs
  2. Improvements to the Chirp server:
    • New support for streaming I/O and server-side FIFOs
    • New support for complex path names using RFC 2396 encoding.
    • New P right that allows a user only to put new files.
  3. Improvements to the Chirp clients:
    • Strided I/O routines for array access.
    • Client interfaces for streaming I/O.
    • Improvement to the build flags that make it easier for other programs to compile against Chirp.
  4. Miscellaneous bug fixes:
    • Fixed case where server improperly returns "permission denied" instead of "file not found".es in the server.

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