--- EV/Changes 2008/11/19 10:16:39 1.156 +++ EV/Changes 2009/01/06 19:58:44 1.163 @@ -1,9 +1,35 @@ Revision history for Perl extension EV + - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode. + - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but + select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was + allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in + libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service + attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure + it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname + should return fantasy port numbers. + +3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008 + - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount + indicates that the callback has stolen them. + - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux. + - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially + avoid problems. + - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes. + - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the + only viable choice left on that pile of garbage. + - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only + on cpan tester machines. + +3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros). - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast make test. + - possible 5.6 compatibility. + - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it. + - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems. 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events