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Revision: 1.205
Committed: Tue Jan 11 13:52:11 2011 UTC (13 years, 4 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_03
Changes since 1.204: +1 -1 lines
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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.143 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2 root 1.1
3 root 1.185 Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4     documentation in the libev Changes file.
5    
6 root 1.205 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
7 root 1.203 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
8     links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
9     advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
10     but also links against -lrt.
11 root 1.204 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
12     - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
13     - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
14     - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
15 root 1.203
16 root 1.202 4.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
17     - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
18     numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
19     previous invocations.
20    
21 root 1.201 4.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
22 root 1.197 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
23 root 1.198 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
24 root 1.199 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
25 root 1.200 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
26 root 1.201 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
27 root 1.197
28 root 1.196 4.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
29 root 1.194 - many API changes, see the manual.
30 root 1.196 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
31 root 1.187 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
32     multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
33     - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
34 root 1.189 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
35 root 1.196 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
36 root 1.188 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
37     - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
38     - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
39     - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
40 root 1.191 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
41 root 1.190 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
42     translated to C.
43 root 1.193 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
44 root 1.192 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
45 root 1.187
46 root 1.186 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
47 root 1.182 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
48 root 1.183 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
49     select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
50 root 1.184 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
51     EV::BACKEND_ALL.
52 root 1.185 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
53     - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
54     - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
55     - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
56     - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
57     - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
58     - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
59     - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
60 root 1.182
61 root 1.181 3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
62 root 1.180 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
63 root 1.181 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
64     handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
65     - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
66     members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
67     repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
68     - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
69     - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
70     state when using libev's signal handling.
71     - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
72     cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
73     - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
74     with AnyEvent.
75 root 1.180
76 root 1.177 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
77 root 1.171 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
78 root 1.172 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
79     for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
80     - use common schmorp.h header.
81 root 1.176 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
82 root 1.175 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
83     EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
84     - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
85 root 1.171
86 root 1.177 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
87     exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
88     - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
89     - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
90     - add $timer->remaining.
91     - add EV::loop_depth.
92     - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
93     for new events.
94     - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
95     for slightly higher accuracy.
96     - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
97     signals.
98    
99 root 1.170 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
100 root 1.167 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
101     permanently.
102 root 1.168 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
103     accessible via the XS API.
104 root 1.169 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
105     added :/.
106     - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
107     - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
108     iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
109     - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
110     no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
111     loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
112     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
113     - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
114     and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
115     Malek Hadj-Ali).
116     - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
117     - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
118     - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
119     - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
120     - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
121     - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
122 root 1.167
123 root 1.166 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
124     - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
125     due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
126 root 1.165 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
127     fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
128     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
129     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
130    
131 root 1.164 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
132 root 1.163 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
133     - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
134     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
135     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
136     - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
137     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
138     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
139     it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
140     should return fantasy port numbers.
141    
142 root 1.162 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
143 root 1.161 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
144     indicates that the callback has stolen them.
145 root 1.159 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
146 root 1.160 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
147     avoid problems.
148 root 1.162 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
149     - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
150     only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
151 root 1.161 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
152     on cpan tester machines.
153 root 1.159
154 root 1.158 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
155 root 1.155 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
156 root 1.156 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
157     machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
158     make test.
159 root 1.157 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
160 root 1.158 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
161     - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
162 root 1.155
163 root 1.154 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
164 root 1.152 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
165 root 1.151 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
166     I didn't design epoll...).
167 root 1.150 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
168     backend in some cases.
169     - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
170     with the init functions.
171 root 1.152 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
172 root 1.151 not creating the object reference each time.
173 root 1.153 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
174 root 1.150
175     3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
176     - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
177 root 1.146 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
178     - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
179     the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
180     one precedence.
181 root 1.149 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
182 root 1.150 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
183 root 1.146
184 root 1.145 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
185 root 1.144 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
186    
187 root 1.142 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
188     - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
189     Vladimir Timofeev.
190    
191 root 1.141 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
192 root 1.140 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
193     and harmless.
194    
195 root 1.139 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
196 root 1.138 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
197     windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
198     flags in select, but this version of libev will.
199    
200 root 1.136 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
201 root 1.135 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
202 root 1.134 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
203 root 1.137 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
204 root 1.134 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
205     - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
206     reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
207     speed increase (as well as saving memory).
208    
209 root 1.133 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
210 root 1.132 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
211     select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
212 root 1.131 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
213     (and for the poor internetless person).
214    
215 root 1.130 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
216     - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
217     cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
218     - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
219    
220 root 1.129 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
221     - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
222    
223 root 1.128 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
224 root 1.125 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
225 root 1.128 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
226     - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
227     - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
228 root 1.126 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
229 root 1.127 - add async_pending method.
230 root 1.125
231 root 1.123 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
232 root 1.117 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
233 root 1.124 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
234 root 1.121 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
235 root 1.120 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
236 root 1.122 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
237 root 1.117
238 root 1.116 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
239 root 1.113 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
240 root 1.115 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
241     - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
242 root 1.113
243 root 1.112 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
244     - upgrade to libev-3.0.
245 root 1.111 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
246    
247 root 1.110 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
248     - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
249     caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
250     König).
251    
252 root 1.107 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
253 root 1.100 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
254     on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
255 root 1.95 - expose fork watchers.
256     - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
257 root 1.96 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
258     - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
259 root 1.97 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
260     when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
261 root 1.98 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
262 root 1.103 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
263 root 1.105 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
264 root 1.106 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
265 root 1.95
266 root 1.94 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
267 root 1.93 - add periodic->at methods.
268 root 1.92
269 root 1.91 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
270 root 1.90 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
271     avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
272 root 1.87 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
273 root 1.89 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
274 root 1.87
275 root 1.86 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
276 root 1.83 - API version 3:0.
277 root 1.81 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
278     and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
279     even in its extensions :->
280 root 1.82 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
281     by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
282 root 1.84 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
283     to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
284 root 1.85 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
285     heap orderings.
286 root 1.81
287 root 1.80 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
288 root 1.77 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
289     so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
290 root 1.78 - expose ev_clear_pending.
291 root 1.79 - renamed trigger to invoke.
292 root 1.77
293 root 1.76 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
294 root 1.75 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
295     - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
296     - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
297     - improved testsuite.
298    
299 root 1.74 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
300 root 1.70 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
301 root 1.71 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
302     - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
303 root 1.72 - add EV::loop_count.
304 root 1.73 - some space optimisations.
305 root 1.70
306 root 1.69 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
307 root 1.67 - add inotify backend.
308 root 1.69 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
309     add more stat tests.
310 root 1.68 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
311 root 1.67
312 root 1.66 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
313 root 1.64 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
314     - implement stat watcher interface.
315 root 1.65 - implement fork watcher interface.
316 root 1.64 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
317     - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
318     - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
319 root 1.66 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
320 root 1.64
321 root 1.63 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
322     - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
323 root 1.58 - implement and document EV::once.
324 root 1.57 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
325     working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
326     openbsd). Praise them!
327 root 1.62 - fix the data method so it might work.
328 root 1.59 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
329 root 1.61 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
330 root 1.58 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
331 root 1.57
332 root 1.56 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
333     - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
334     darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
335     - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
336     vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
337     - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
338     configure them.
339    
340 root 1.55 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
341 root 1.53 - improved timer test to include periodics and
342     withstand small timing variations.
343 root 1.54 - many minor tweaks to libev.
344 root 1.53
345 root 1.52 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
346 root 1.50 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
347 root 1.51 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
348     - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
349 root 1.52 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
350     documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
351 root 1.50
352 root 1.49 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
353 root 1.45 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
354     way this is used inside libev.
355 root 1.46 - many, many bugfixes.
356     - add unloop constants.
357 root 1.47 - add timer test.
358 root 1.48 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
359 root 1.45
360 root 1.44 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
361 root 1.41 - fix "testsuite" again :().
362     - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
363 root 1.42 - enourmously many fixes.
364     - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
365     - cache socket handles on win32.
366 root 1.43 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
367 root 1.41
368 root 1.40 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
369 root 1.39 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
370 root 1.41 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
371 root 1.39 - many minor fixes.
372    
373 root 1.38 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
374 root 1.95 - (libev) better native win32 support.
375 root 1.35 - fix idle watchers.
376 root 1.37 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
377     - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
378 root 1.38 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
379 root 1.34
380 root 1.33 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
381 root 1.32 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
382 root 1.33 - work around design issues in kqueue.
383 root 1.32 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
384    
385 root 1.31 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
386 root 1.23 - add signal and pid mutators.
387 root 1.27 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
388 root 1.24 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
389 root 1.25 - support event priorities.
390 root 1.26 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
391 root 1.28 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
392 root 1.29 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
393 root 1.30 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
394 root 1.23
395 root 1.22 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
396 root 1.18 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
397     - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
398     - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
399 root 1.16 - performance optimisations.
400 root 1.19 - added interactive configuration.
401 root 1.21 - added fork support.
402 root 1.16
403 root 1.14 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
404 root 1.9 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
405     - improve documentation.
406 root 1.8 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
407 root 1.9 - support signal anyevent watchers.
408 root 1.10 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
409 root 1.11 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
410 root 1.12 - force strings to byte form.
411 root 1.6
412 root 1.5 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
413 root 1.15 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
414 root 1.4 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
415 root 1.3
416     0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
417     - initial release.
418    
419     0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
420 root 1.1 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
421