--file-allocation option can now take new value 'trunc'. 'trunc' uses
ftruncate() system call or platform-specific counterpart to truncate a
file to a specified length.
The help messages shown when argument error were redesigned and less
verbose now. When unknown or ambiguous option is given, show
suggestions like "Did you mean...". Some constant values related to
levenstein distance are borrowed from git help.c.
This feature stops application when process PID is not running. This
is useful if aria2 process is forked from a parent process. The parent
process can fork aria2 with its own pid and when parent process exits
for some reason, aria2 can detect it and shutdown itself.
The code which detects whether or not given process PID is running is
contributed by Emmanuel Engelhart.
libnettle and libgmp is used by default. Old implementation uses
libgcrypt as default. If more and more Linux distributions offer
libnettle linked GnuTLS, then this change decrease library dependency
against libgcrypt and libgpg-error. The current library detection for
libnettle and libgmp is very simple, just use AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
util::generateRandomData() was written using SimpleRandomizer, thus no
external library dependency from this function.
In MinGW32 build, global::cout is WinConsoleFile. When outputing to
console, it uses WriteConsoleW, so Unicode characters are written.
Fixed memory leak in WChar<->MultiByte conversion functions. The
portion of code which uses std::cout is rewritten to use global::cout.
This option specifies piece selection algorithm used in HTTP/FTP
download. Piece means fixed length segment which is downloaded in
parallel in segmented download. If 'default' is given, aria2 selects
piece so that it reduces the number of establishing connection. This
is reasonable default behaviour because establishing connection is an
expensive operation. If 'inorder' is given, aria2 selects piece which
has minimum index. Index=0 means first of the file. This will be
useful to view movie while downloading it. --enable-http-pipelining
option may be useful to reduce reconnection overhead. Please note
that aria2 honors --min-split-size option, so it will be necessary to
specify a reasonable value to --min-split-size option.
We introduced SocketRecvBuffer which buffers received bytes. Since
HTTP response header and response body are divided with \r\n, we have
to buffer up several bytes to find this delimiter. We use
SocketRecvBuffer to hold these bytes and only consumes header and
passes SocketRecvBuffer, which may contain head of response body, to
next Command. Since FTPConnection doesn't use SocketCore::peekData(),
we left it as is.
We added 2 macros A2_TEST_DIR and A2_TEST_OUT_DIR to pass tests in
`make distcheck`. A2_TEST_DIR refers to test directory. All output
files by unit tests are now created under A2_TEST_OUT_DIR directory.
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa