File	Date	Author	Commit
dcethreads	2026-10-27	Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann	[734bd5] dcethreads header inclusion
freedce	2026-11-07	Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann	[fc5b2d] fix makefiles
netlogon	2009-02-28	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton	[4d6a31] oops
.gitignore	2026-09-29	Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann	[869259] dcethreads cleanup
README	2026-11-08	Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann	[dc5156] readme
setup.sh	2026-10-27	Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann	[422dfb] better support for out-of-source build

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2026.11.08 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann (mirek-dn@freenet.de)
  It's still Work In Progress
  - whole reository builds successfully
  - use ./setup.sh to setup and run first build
    afterwards you can use make
    it performs a build out-of-source
    suppose you cloned at ~/DEV/freedce-dev
    then it creates ~/DEV/freedce-build and ~/DEV/freedce-inst
    and runs build process in ~/DEV/freedce-build
    after dcethreads are built it is installed in ~/DEV/freedce-inst
    and referenced there

    there is a bug in "dceidl" that lets it crash at times, reason unknown

2026-10-28 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann (mirek-dn@freenet.de)
  It's Work In Progress

  WHAT WORKS:
  1. DCE threads are working yo you can use them
  1.1 New / missing freatures implemented
      - EXCEPTION handling fully implemented so you can use all of them
        TRY, CATCH, CATCH_ALL, FINALLY, ENDTRY
      A nice solution for ordering the blocks will be welcome
      for instance no FINALLY before CATCH and the like
      what is allowed is C23 (not C++) with its preprocessor

  please note:
  DCE threads are based on pthreads draft 4
  current version is draft 10 aka NPTL, at places there are differences in semantics

  dcethreads are here implemented ontop of the current pthreads standard (NPTL)
  so it should be safe to use parts in current software
  Exceptions are safe anyway


  WHAT DOESNT WORK: FREEDCE
  It is WIP (Work In Progress)
  1. idl compilation errors
  2. crashes in at some places


WISH LIST:
- as mentionend above, enforcement of block ordering in TRY/ENDTRY
- tests,
    please note here are only the autotools tests used, no other framework
    take a look at the existing ones