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Revision 1.106 by root, Sat Dec 22 11:44:50 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.199 by root, Mon Nov 22 06:28:26 2010 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
2 2
3TODO: document embed watchers 3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4TODO: document ev_set_*collect and ev_sleep 4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5 5
6 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
7 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
8 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
9
104.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
11 - many API changes, see the manual.
12 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
13 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
14 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
15 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
16 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
17 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
18 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
19 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
20 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
21 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
22 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
23 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
24 translated to C.
25 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
26 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
27
283.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
29 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
30 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
31 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
32 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
33 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
34 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
35 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
36 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
37 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
38 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
39 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
40 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
41 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
42
433.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
44 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
45 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
46 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
47 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
48 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
49 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
50 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
51 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
52 state when using libev's signal handling.
53 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
54 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
55 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
56 with AnyEvent.
57
583.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
59 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
60 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
61 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
62 - use common schmorp.h header.
63 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
64 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
65 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
66 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
67
68 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
69 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
70 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
71 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
72 - add $timer->remaining.
73 - add EV::loop_depth.
74 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
75 for new events.
76 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
77 for slightly higher accuracy.
78 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
79 signals.
80
813.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
82 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
83 permanently.
84 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
85 accessible via the XS API.
86 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
87 added :/.
88 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
89 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
90 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
91 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
92 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
93 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
94 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
95 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
96 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
97 Malek Hadj-Ali).
98 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
99 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
100 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
101 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
102 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
103 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
104
1053.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
106 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
107 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
108 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
109 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
110 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
111 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
112
1133.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
114 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
115 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
116 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
117 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
118 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
119 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
120 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
121 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
122 should return fantasy port numbers.
123
1243.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
125 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
126 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
127 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
128 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
129 avoid problems.
130 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
131 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
132 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
133 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
134 on cpan tester machines.
135
1363.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
137 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
138 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
139 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
140 make test.
141 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
142 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
143 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
144
1453.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
146 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
147 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
148 I didn't design epoll...).
149 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
150 backend in some cases.
151 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
152 with the init functions.
153 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
154 not creating the object reference each time.
155 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
156
1573.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
158 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
159 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
160 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
161 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
162 one precedence.
163 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
164 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
165
1663.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
167 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
168
1693.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
170 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
171 Vladimir Timofeev.
172
1733.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
174 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
175 and harmless.
176
1773.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
178 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
179 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
180 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
181
1823.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
183 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
184 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
185 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
186 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
187 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
188 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
189 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
190
1913.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
192 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
193 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
194 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
195 (and for the poor internetless person).
196
1973.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
198 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
199 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
200 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
201
2023.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
203 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
204
2053.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
206 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
207 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
208 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
209 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
210 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
211 - add async_pending method.
212
2133.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
214 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
215 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
216 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
217 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
218 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
219
2203.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
221 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
222 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
223 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
224
2253.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
226 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
227 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
228
2292.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
230 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
231 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
232 König).
233
2342.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
6 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it 235 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
7 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most). 236 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
8 - expose fork watchers. 237 - expose fork watchers.
9 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API. 238 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
10 - use a slightly different include file name strategy. 239 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
13 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity. 242 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
14 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers. 243 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
15 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods. 244 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
16 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval. 245 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
17 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros). 246 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
18 - (libev) new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
19 - (libev) removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
20 - (libev) fix embed watchers.
21 - (libev) renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
22 - (libev) added exported Symbol tables.
23 - (libev) undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
24 - (libev) respect EV_H in ev++.h.
25 247
261.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007 2481.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
27 - (libev) fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
28 - add periodic->at methods. 249 - add periodic->at methods.
29 250
301.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007 2511.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
31 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that 252 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
32 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible. 253 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
33 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe. 254 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
34 - (libev) fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
35 (not relevant for perl).
36 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed. 255 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
37 256
381.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007 2571.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
39 - API version 3:0. 258 - API version 3:0.
40 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 259 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll

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