PROOF System

NB: Starting with version 5.32/00, Xrootd is not distributed any longer with ROOT but has become an external package. If not avaibable the PROOF modules 'proofx' and 'proofd' will not be built. The PROOF core modules, however, are built. Namely, PROOF-Lite will be available even when Xrootd is not.

New functionality

Creating PAR packages from ROOT data files: it is now possible to use TFile::MakeProject to create a PAR file to read the file. Details in here.
Add support for backend-dependent record formatting of PROOF monitoring. This is achieved by introducing a new layer, described by the abstract interface TProofMonSender, with the record format defined in the backend implemenation (currently TProofMonSenderML, for MonaLisa, and TProofMonSenderSQL, for SQL backends). Currently three types of records are sent: 'summary' (derived from what was currently posted), 'dataset', with entries per dataset processed in the query, and 'files', with entries per file processed in the query. In SQL terms, each of this records corresponds to a different table. Sending of any of the three records can be toggled independently. See also the web pages dedicated to monitoring.
In TProofMgr, add 'ping' functionality to test in non-blocking way if a PROOF service is listening at a given port of a given host.

Improvements

In PROOF-Bench, file generation, add the possibility to change only the generating function, passed as TMacro. Add also check on the free space on the device and skip file generation if less than 10% or less than 1 GB.
Record in TStatus also the max memory usage on the master and printed via TStatus::Print; this allow a quick visualisation of the overall memory usage at the end of the query.
Import version 0.9.6 of afdsmgrd
Make sure that the name(s) of the processed dataset(s) are registered in the TFileInfo objects being processed, so that it can be used for monitoring.
In XrdProofd, add possibility to skip the checks for the data directories during session startup, as they may significantly slowdown the startup process is the medium is busy. In such a case, admins are responsible to create the directories in advance; the session releated part fo the path is created by the session once up.
In XrdProofd, move the check for the username after authentication. This is because authentication may run some credentials-to-user mapping which can modify the requested username. This way we really check the final username and not the one requested by the client, which may even not exist on the machines. Side modification: when the mapping function returns more usernames, the username specified by the client is used to help choosing the effective username among the available choices; if not match is found the handshake does any longer fail, the first mapped username is chosen instead.
In XrdProofd, allow 'xpd.allowedgroups' to control also PROOF groups, not only UNIX ones.
In XrdProofd, simplify error messages in case of login failure because of non-authorization.
Remove hardcoded additions of dirname(COMPILER) and of '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin' in front of PATH. These uncontrolled additions could hide specific settings in PATH and be the source of weird problems appearing in PROOF only.
Add more flexibility to the definition of the library path seen by proofserv. So far to avoid ambiguites in some cases, $ROOTSYS/lib was removed and the one of the ROOT version chosen was added later on in front, which proved to be to aggressive in some cases.
All changes (and fixes) needed to build against the version of Xrootd, now always installed as external.

Fixes

Fix GetSessionLogs in PROOF-Lite
Restore correct parsing of "workers=N" in PROOF-Lite
In Proof-Bench, make sure that it can be run from any directory and no matter how ROOT was installed
Fix issue in TProofPlayer::HandleHistogram preventing proper histogram cleaning right after merging when using TH1::Add; histogram were still destroyed at the end of the query, but there was no memory advantage in TH1::Add wrt TH1::Merge.
Make sure that the performance tree is removed from the output list when saved to the output file. Solves a segv at quit.
Decouple from registered TChains in already TProof::Close(); allows to avoid possible crash at exit ('.q') occuring after the recent revision of the socket cleanup policy.
In XrdProofd, fix a few issues with option 'xpd.multiuser'.
In TXSocket::ProcessUnsolicitedMsg, fix an issue preventig server messages to be displayed during setup, i.e. when the XrdClientConn instance is not yet defined.
In XrdProofd, fix the behavior of the 'xpd.allowedusers' and 'xpd.allowedgroups' directives (see the dedicated web entry).