From d88701e3e6d539df0b20bf380434b817e79d55ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Greene <jason@php.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:13:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add news entries representing the sockets rework. #I had a
 hard time with the style due to the number of entries #Feel free to make any
 changes

---
 NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fd31fa1ca0..86cbfe4d53 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 PHP 4                                                                      NEWS
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 ?? ??? 2002, Version 4.2.0
+- Introduced major modifications to the Sockets Extension and its API (Jason):
+  . Fixed numerous bugs.
+  . Added automatic host lookup capability to all functions that take addr's
+  . ex. socket_connect($sock, 'www.yahoo.com', 80);
+  . Corrected and standardized host lookup errors
+  . Modified socket_recv() behavior. [$r=socket_recv($sock, $buf, $len, $flags)]
+  . Added socket_set_block() which changes a socket into blocking IO mode
+  . Modified socket_last_error() to not clear the last error
+  . Added socket_clear_error() which clears the last error on a socket
+  . Removed all code pertaining to fd_sets (socket_fd_*)
+  . Modfied/Improved socket_select() to take resource arrays instead of fd_sets
+     ex. <?php $wfds=$rfds=array($sock1, $sock2, $sock3, $sock7);
+	       $r=socket_select($rfds, $wfds, NULL, 1);
+	       print "Ready to read:\n"; var_dump($rfds); ?>
 - Returned iconv support to FreeBSD (kalowsky)
 - Added CLI (command line intrerface) sapi based on a cut-down version
   of the CGI sapi which is more suited for writing shell scripts. Some of
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2.40.0