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Revision 1.149 by root, Mon Oct 13 23:20:50 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.233 by root, Sat Jun 22 15:50:36 2019 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
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3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
6 - included experimental lin ux aio backend.
7
84.25 Fri Dec 21 08:04:26 CET 2018
9 - (libev) updated to libev 4.25, minor fixes and enhancements.
10 - document the requirement to "use EV" when using EV::MakeMaker.
11 - only use __register_atfork with glibc and uclibc, as musl
12 defines __linux__, but doesn't implement the linux standard
13 base ABI, nor makes itself detectable via a macro, both apparently
14 by design, winning the "broken by design 2016 award" - well done.
15 - correct EV::periodic example 24h after midnight -> one day after
16 midnight (reported by Felix Ostmann).
17
184.22 Sun Dec 20 02:34:39 CET 2015
19 - (libev) when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
20 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
21 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
22 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
23 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
24 - (libev) remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
25 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
26 - updated libecb.
27
284.21 Mon Jul 13 21:47:33 CEST 2015
29 - allow argument in timer->again.
30 - document timer->remaining.
31 - document default repeat value for timer->set.
32
334.20 Sat Jun 20 13:07:34 CEST 2015
34 - added stability canary support.
35 - truly rely on automatic configuration for clock_gettime and others.
36 unfortunately, this doesn't help with activeperl and similar perls,
37 which define _POSIX_TIMERS without actually implementing any of it.
38 - (libev, ecb) make it compile as C++ again.
39 - (libev) fix a potential aliasing issue when accessing watcher cbs.
40
414.18 Sat Sep 6 20:37:23 CEST 2014
42 - use slightly better weay to find includes, to support multiarch
43 on newer perls.
44
454.17 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
46 - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
47 without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
48 in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
49 compatibility - I will never understand.
50
514.16 Sat Mar 8 16:49:05 CET 2014
52 - make sure EV::CHECK is available at all times.
53 - avoid a spurious warning when perl -w overrides "no warnings".
54 - use perl's signal implementation on WIN32.
55 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
56 pointers.
57 - (libev) mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
58 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
59 - (libev) in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
60 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
61 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
62 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
63 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
64
654.15 Fri Mar 1 12:15:53 CET 2013
66 - (libev) upgrade to 4.15 - too many changes to list.
67 - EV::run now returns a boolean.
68 - API version 5:1.
69 - document that cleanup watchers are not available via perl.
70 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
71 - remove dependencies on librt and libpthreads on GNU/Linux.
72
734.11 Sat Feb 4 19:56:26 CET 2012
74 - (libev) implement memory fences for (obsolete) llvm-gcc.
75
764.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012
77 - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork
78 bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore.
79 - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement
80 a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call
81 both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
82 - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat).
83 - replace more old api names by new ones.
84
854.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
86 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
87 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
88 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
89 but also links against -lrt.
90 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
91 - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
92 - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
93 - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
94
954.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
96 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
97 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
98 previous invocations.
99
1004.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
101 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
102 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
103 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
104 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
105 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
106
1074.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
108 - many API changes, see the manual.
109 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
110 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
111 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
112 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
113 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
114 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
115 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
116 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
117 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
118 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
119 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
120 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
121 translated to C.
122 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
123 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
124
1253.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
126 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
127 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
128 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
129 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
130 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
131 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
132 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
133 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
134 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
135 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
136 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
137 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
138 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
139
1403.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
141 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
142 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
143 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
144 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
145 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
146 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
147 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
148 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
149 state when using libev's signal handling.
150 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
151 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
152 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
153 with AnyEvent.
154
1553.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
156 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
157 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
158 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
159 - use common schmorp.h header.
160 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
161 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
162 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
163 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
164
165 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
166 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
167 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
168 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
169 - add $timer->remaining.
170 - add EV::loop_depth.
171 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
172 for new events.
173 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
174 for slightly higher accuracy.
175 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
176 signals.
177
1783.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
179 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
180 permanently.
181 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
182 accessible via the XS API.
183 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
184 added :/.
185 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
186 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
187 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
188 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
189 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
190 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
191 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
192 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
193 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
194 Malek Hadj-Ali).
195 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
196 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
197 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
198 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
199 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
200 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
201
2023.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
203 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
204 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
205 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
206 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
207 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
208 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
209
2103.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
211 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
212 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
213 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
214 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
215 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
216 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
217 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
218 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
219 should return fantasy port numbers.
220
2213.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
222 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
223 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
224 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
225 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
226 avoid problems.
227 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
228 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
229 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
230 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
231 on cpan tester machines.
232
2333.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
234 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
235 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
236 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
237 make test.
238 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
239 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
240 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
241
2423.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
243 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
244 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
245 I didn't design epoll...).
246 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
247 backend in some cases.
248 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
249 with the init functions.
250 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
251 not creating the object reference each time.
252 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
253
2543.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
3 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken. 255 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
4 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork. 256 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
5 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to 257 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
6 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving 258 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
7 one precedence. 259 one precedence.
8 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi). 260 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
261 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
9 262
103.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008 2633.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
11 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update. 264 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
12 265
133.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008 2663.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008

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