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1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
64.21 Mon Jul 13 21:47:33 CEST 2015
7 - allow argument in timer->again.
8 - document timer->remaining.
9 - document default repeat value for timer->set.
10
114.20 Sat Jun 20 13:07:34 CEST 2015
12 - added stability canary support.
13 - truly rely on automatic configuration for clock_gettime and others.
14 unfortunately, this doesn't help with activeperl and similar perls,
15 which define _POSIX_TIMERS without actually implementing any of it.
16 - (libev, ecb) make it compile as C++ again.
17 - (libev) fix a potential aliasing issue when accessing watcher cbs.
18
194.18 Sat Sep 6 20:37:23 CEST 2014
20 - use slightly better weay to find includes, to support multiarch
21 on newer perls.
22
234.17 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
24 - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
25 without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
26 in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
27 compatibility - I will never understand.
28
294.16 Sat Mar 8 16:49:05 CET 2014
30 - make sure EV::CHECK is available at all times.
31 - avoid a spurious warning when perl -w overrides "no warnings".
32 - use perl's signal implementation on WIN32.
33 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
34 pointers.
35 - (libev) mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
36 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
37 - (libev) in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
38 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
39 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
40 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
41 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
42
434.15 Fri Mar 1 12:15:53 CET 2013
44 - (libev) upgrade to 4.15 - too many changes to list.
45 - EV::run now returns a boolean.
46 - API version 5:1.
47 - document that cleanup watchers are not available via perl.
48 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
49 - remove dependencies on librt and libpthreads on GNU/Linux.
50
514.11 Sat Feb 4 19:56:26 CET 2012
52 - (libev) implement memory fences for (obsolete) llvm-gcc.
53
544.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012
55 - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork
56 bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore.
57 - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement
58 a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call
59 both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
60 - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat).
61 - replace more old api names by new ones.
62
634.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
64 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
65 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
66 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
67 but also links against -lrt.
68 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
69 - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
70 - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
71 - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
72
734.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
74 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
75 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
76 previous invocations.
77
784.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
79 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
80 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
81 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
82 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
83 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
84
854.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
86 - many API changes, see the manual.
87 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
88 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
89 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
90 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
91 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
92 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
93 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
94 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
95 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
96 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
97 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
98 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
99 translated to C.
100 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
101 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
102
1033.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
104 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
105 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
106 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
107 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
108 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
109 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
110 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
111 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
112 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
113 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
114 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
115 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
116 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
117
1183.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
119 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
120 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
121 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
122 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
123 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
124 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
125 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
126 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
127 state when using libev's signal handling.
128 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
129 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
130 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
131 with AnyEvent.
132
1333.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
134 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
135 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
136 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
137 - use common schmorp.h header.
138 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
139 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
140 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
141 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
142
143 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
144 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
145 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
146 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
147 - add $timer->remaining.
148 - add EV::loop_depth.
149 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
150 for new events.
151 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
152 for slightly higher accuracy.
153 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
154 signals.
155
1563.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
157 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
158 permanently.
159 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
160 accessible via the XS API.
161 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
162 added :/.
163 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
164 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
165 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
166 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
167 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
168 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
169 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
170 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
171 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
172 Malek Hadj-Ali).
173 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
174 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
175 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
176 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
177 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
178 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
179
1803.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
181 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
182 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
183 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
184 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
185 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
186 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
187
1883.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
189 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
190 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
191 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
192 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
193 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
194 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
195 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
196 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
197 should return fantasy port numbers.
198
1993.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
200 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
201 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
202 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
203 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
204 avoid problems.
205 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
206 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
207 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
208 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
209 on cpan tester machines.
210
2113.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
212 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
213 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
214 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
215 make test.
216 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
217 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
218 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
219
2203.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
221 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
222 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
223 I didn't design epoll...).
224 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
225 backend in some cases.
226 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
227 with the init functions.
228 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
229 not creating the object reference each time.
230 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
231
2323.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
233 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
234 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
235 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
236 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
237 one precedence.
238 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
239 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
240
2413.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
242 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
243
2443.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
245 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
246 Vladimir Timofeev.
247
2483.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
249 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
250 and harmless.
251
2523.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
253 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
254 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
255 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
256
2573.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
258 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
259 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
260 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
261 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
262 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
263 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
264 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
265
2663.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
267 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
268 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
269 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
270 (and for the poor internetless person).
271
2723.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
273 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
274 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
275 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
276
2773.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
278 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
279
2803.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
281 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
282 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
283 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
284 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
285 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
286 - add async_pending method.
287
2883.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
289 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
290 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
291 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
292 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
293 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
294
2953.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
296 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
297 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
298 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
299
3003.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
301 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
302 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
303
3042.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
305 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
306 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
307 König).
308
3092.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
310 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
311 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
312 - expose fork watchers.
313 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
314 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
315 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
316 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
317 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
318 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
319 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
320 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
321 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
322
3231.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
324 - add periodic->at methods.
325
3261.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
327 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
328 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
329 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
330 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
331
3321.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
333 - API version 3:0.
334 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
335 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
336 even in its extensions :->
337 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
338 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
339 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
340 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
341 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
342 heap orderings.
343
3441.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
345 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
346 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
347 - expose ev_clear_pending.
348 - renamed trigger to invoke.
349
3501.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
351 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
352 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
353 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
354 - improved testsuite.
355
3561.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
357 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
358 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
359 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
360 - add EV::loop_count.
361 - some space optimisations.
2 362
31.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007 3631.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
4 - add inotify backend. 364 - add inotify backend.
5 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues, 365 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
6 add more stat tests. 366 add more stat tests.
66 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module. 426 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
67 - use private copy of evdns.[ch]. 427 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
68 - many minor fixes. 428 - many minor fixes.
69 429
700.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007 4300.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
71 - better native win32 support (not relevant for perl usually). 431 - (libev) better native win32 support.
72 - fix idle watchers. 432 - fix idle watchers.
73 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks. 433 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
74 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32). 434 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
75 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend. 435 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
76 436

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