--- EV/Changes 2009/08/09 13:30:41 1.181 +++ EV/Changes 2010/03/16 17:11:48 1.188 @@ -1,5 +1,33 @@ Revision history for Perl extension EV +Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more +documentation in the libev Changes file. + +4.00 + - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event + multiple times, causing various forms of breakage. + - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb). + - expose ev_loop_depth via the XS API. + - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher. + - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX. + - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. + - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage. + +3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 + - disable t/07* under automatic testing. + - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken + select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3. + - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and + EV::BACKEND_ALL. + - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default. + - (libev) backport inotify code to C89. + - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. + - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop. + - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available. + - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows. + - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd. + - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference. + 3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns. - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal