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1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
64.00
7 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
8 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
9 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
10 - renamed loop_verify to verify, loop_count to iteration and
11 loop_depth to depth.
12 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
13 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
14 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
15 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
16 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
17 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
18 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
19 translated to C.
20 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
21 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
22
233.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
24 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
25 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
26 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
27 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
28 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
29 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
30 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
31 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
32 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
33 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
34 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
35 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
36 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
37
383.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
39 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
40 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
41 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
42 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
43 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
44 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
45 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
46 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
47 state when using libev's signal handling.
48 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
49 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
50 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
51 with AnyEvent.
52
533.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
54 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
55 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
56 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
57 - use common schmorp.h header.
58 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
59 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
60 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
61 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
62
63 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
64 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
65 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
66 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
67 - add $timer->remaining.
68 - add EV::loop_depth.
69 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
70 for new events.
71 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
72 for slightly higher accuracy.
73 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
74 signals.
75
763.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
77 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
78 permanently.
79 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
80 accessible via the XS API.
81 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
82 added :/.
83 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
84 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
85 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
86 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
87 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
88 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
89 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
90 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
91 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
92 Malek Hadj-Ali).
93 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
94 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
95 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
96 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
97 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
98 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
99
1003.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
101 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
102 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
103 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
104 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
105 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
106 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
107
1083.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
109 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
110 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
111 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
112 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
113 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
114 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
115 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
116 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
117 should return fantasy port numbers.
118
1193.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
120 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
121 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
122 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
123 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
124 avoid problems.
125 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
126 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
127 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
128 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
129 on cpan tester machines.
130
1313.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
132 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
133 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
134 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
135 make test.
136 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
137 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
138 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
139
1403.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
141 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
142 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
143 I didn't design epoll...).
144 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
145 backend in some cases.
146 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
147 with the init functions.
148 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
149 not creating the object reference each time.
150 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
151
1523.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
153 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
154 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
155 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
156 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
157 one precedence.
158 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
159 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
160
1613.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
162 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
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33.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008 1643.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
4 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by 165 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
5 Vladimir Timofeev. 166 Vladimir Timofeev.
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