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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 might have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
6TODO: cygwin EV stat Carsten Witt
7
84.34
9 - the EV::stat->path method errornously freed the result, causing
10 corruption (testcase by Carsten Witt).
11 - new functino EV::Child::reinit.
12
134.33 Wed Mar 18 13:31:12 CET 2020
14 - the enable assertion makefile question failed to enable
15 assertions due to a typo.
16 - try harder to avoid perl's assert () which does not actually
17 behave correctly.
18 - updated libecb to make it compile under more windows environments.
19
204.32 Fri Jan 24 14:21:35 CET 2020
21 - (libev) fixed a bug introduced in 4.31 when timerfds and signalfds were
22 used at the same time.
23 - (libev) 0 is now allowed as requested event mask in io watchers.
24 - (libev) once-per-minute wakeups will now be optimized away when
25 timerfds are available
26 - use the new ev_io_modify in EV::IO->events, instead of the potentially
27 slower ev_io_set.
28 - add a bunch of mutator methods, mostly untested(!): EV::Timer->repeat,
29 EV::Periodic->offset, EV::Periodic->interval,
30 EV::Periodic->reschedule_cb.
31 - minor optimisations and bugfixes.
32
334.31 Fri Dec 20 21:57:00 CET 2019
34 - (libev) handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by
35 not waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
36 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
37 - (libev) use timerfd to detect timejumps.
38 - (libev) new loop flag: EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD.
39
404.30 Fri Nov 22 21:00:00 CET 2019
41 - (libev) use a different and hopefully even more portable
42 test to disable io_uring when header files are too old,
43 by directly testing LINUX_VERSION_CODE.
44 - (libev) fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
45 backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
46
474.29 Fri Nov 22 15:34:29 CET 2019
48 - (libev) add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection,
49 the latter of which should disable io_uring compilation
50 on old systems.
51
524.28 Tue Nov 19 13:55:39 CET 2019
53 - (libev) fix ev_port backend, thanks to David H. Gutteridge for
54 - (libev) many bugfixes in linuxaio backend.
55 - (libev) experimental io uring interface.
56 reminding me to actually release the fix.
57 - try to name ev.h more explicitly, to hopefully improve portability.
58 - opportunistically round up wait times for poll and epoll backend,
59 to avoid unnecessary loop iterations.
60 - add build dependency on ev_linuxaio.c.
61 - quickly (re)-ported to minix 3.3 before minix crashed again.
62
634.27 Thu Jun 27 09:39:58 CEST 2019
64 - (libev) completely rewritten linuxaio backend, maybe
65 usable as a general-use backend.
66 - (libev) use more aggressive assertions to catch
67 more usage errors.
68 - allow users to re-enable assert() in case it is disabled
69 by perl (which is typically the case).
70
714.26 Mon Jun 24 23:39:40 CEST 2019
72 - (libev) included experimental linux aio backend.
73 - allow the linux aio backend to be used by default
74 only when explicitly configured during Makefile.PL time.
75
764.25 Fri Dec 21 08:04:26 CET 2018
77 - (libev) updated to libev 4.25, minor fixes and enhancements.
78 - document the requirement to "use EV" when using EV::MakeMaker.
79 - only use __register_atfork with glibc and uclibc, as musl
80 defines __linux__, but doesn't implement the linux standard
81 base ABI, nor makes itself detectable via a macro, both apparently
82 by design, winning the "broken by design 2016 award" - well done.
83 - correct EV::periodic example 24h after midnight -> one day after
84 midnight (reported by Felix Ostmann).
85
864.22 Sun Dec 20 02:34:39 CET 2015
87 - (libev) when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
88 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
89 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
90 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
91 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
92 - (libev) remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
93 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
94 - updated libecb.
95
964.21 Mon Jul 13 21:47:33 CEST 2015
97 - allow argument in timer->again.
98 - document timer->remaining.
99 - document default repeat value for timer->set.
100
1014.20 Sat Jun 20 13:07:34 CEST 2015
102 - added stability canary support.
103 - truly rely on automatic configuration for clock_gettime and others.
104 unfortunately, this doesn't help with activeperl and similar perls,
105 which define _POSIX_TIMERS without actually implementing any of it.
106 - (libev, ecb) make it compile as C++ again.
107 - (libev) fix a potential aliasing issue when accessing watcher cbs.
108
1094.18 Sat Sep 6 20:37:23 CEST 2014
110 - use slightly better weay to find includes, to support multiarch
111 on newer perls.
112
1134.17 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
114 - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
115 without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
116 in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
117 compatibility - I will never understand.
118
1194.16 Sat Mar 8 16:49:05 CET 2014
120 - make sure EV::CHECK is available at all times.
121 - avoid a spurious warning when perl -w overrides "no warnings".
122 - use perl's signal implementation on WIN32.
123 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
124 pointers.
125 - (libev) mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
126 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
127 - (libev) in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
128 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
129 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
130 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
131 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
132
1334.15 Fri Mar 1 12:15:53 CET 2013
134 - (libev) upgrade to 4.15 - too many changes to list.
135 - EV::run now returns a boolean.
136 - API version 5:1.
137 - document that cleanup watchers are not available via perl.
138 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
139 - remove dependencies on librt and libpthreads on GNU/Linux.
140
1414.11 Sat Feb 4 19:56:26 CET 2012
142 - (libev) implement memory fences for (obsolete) llvm-gcc.
143
1444.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012
145 - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork
146 bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore.
147 - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement
148 a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call
149 both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
150 - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat).
151 - replace more old api names by new ones.
152
1534.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
154 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
155 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
156 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
157 but also links against -lrt.
158 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
159 - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
160 - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
161 - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
162
1634.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
164 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
165 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
166 previous invocations.
167
1684.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
169 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
170 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
171 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
172 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
173 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
174
1754.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
176 - many API changes, see the manual.
177 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
178 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
179 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
180 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
181 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
182 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
183 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
184 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
185 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
186 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
187 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
188 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
189 translated to C.
190 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
191 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
192
1933.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
194 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
195 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
196 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
197 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
198 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
199 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
200 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
201 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
202 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
203 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
204 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
205 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
206 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
207
2083.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
209 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
210 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
211 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
212 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
213 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
214 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
215 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
216 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
217 state when using libev's signal handling.
218 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
219 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
220 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
221 with AnyEvent.
222
2233.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
224 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
225 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
226 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
227 - use common schmorp.h header.
228 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
229 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
230 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
231 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
232
233 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
234 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
235 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
236 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
237 - add $timer->remaining.
238 - add EV::loop_depth.
239 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
240 for new events.
241 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
242 for slightly higher accuracy.
243 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
244 signals.
245
2463.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
247 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
248 permanently.
249 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
250 accessible via the XS API.
251 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
252 added :/.
253 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
254 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
255 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
256 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
257 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
258 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
259 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
260 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
261 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
262 Malek Hadj-Ali).
263 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
264 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
265 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
266 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
267 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
268 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
269
2703.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
271 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
272 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
273 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
274 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
275 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
276 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
277
2783.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
279 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
280 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
281 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
282 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
283 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
284 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
285 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
286 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
287 should return fantasy port numbers.
288
2893.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
290 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
291 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
292 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
293 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
294 avoid problems.
295 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
296 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
297 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
298 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
299 on cpan tester machines.
300
3013.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
3 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros). 302 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
4 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester 303 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
5 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast 304 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
6 make test. 305 make test.
306 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
307 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
308 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
7 309
83.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008 3103.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
9 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events 311 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
10 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but 312 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
11 I didn't design epoll...). 313 I didn't design epoll...).

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