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.