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Revision 1.87 by root, Tue Dec 11 22:04:55 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.203 by root, Thu Dec 30 07:43:03 2010 UTC

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 have more
4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
6 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
7 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
8 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
9 but also links against -lrt.
10
114.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
12 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
13 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
14 previous invocations.
15
164.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
17 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
18 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
19 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
20 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
21 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
22
234.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
24 - many API changes, see the manual.
25 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
26 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
27 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
28 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
29 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
30 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
31 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
32 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
33 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
34 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
35 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
36 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
37 translated to C.
38 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
39 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
40
413.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
42 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
43 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
44 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
45 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
46 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
47 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
48 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
49 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
50 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
51 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
52 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
53 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
54 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
55
563.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
57 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
58 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
59 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
60 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
61 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
62 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
63 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
64 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
65 state when using libev's signal handling.
66 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
67 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
68 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
69 with AnyEvent.
70
713.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
72 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
73 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
74 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
75 - use common schmorp.h header.
76 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
77 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
78 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
79 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
80
81 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
82 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
83 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
84 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
85 - add $timer->remaining.
86 - add EV::loop_depth.
87 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
88 for new events.
89 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
90 for slightly higher accuracy.
91 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
92 signals.
93
943.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
95 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
96 permanently.
97 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
98 accessible via the XS API.
99 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
100 added :/.
101 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
102 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
103 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
104 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
105 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
106 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
107 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
108 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
109 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
110 Malek Hadj-Ali).
111 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
112 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
113 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
114 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
115 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
116 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
117
1183.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
119 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
120 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
121 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
122 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
123 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
124 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
125
1263.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
127 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
128 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
129 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
130 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
131 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
132 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
133 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
134 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
135 should return fantasy port numbers.
136
1373.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
138 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
139 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
140 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
141 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
142 avoid problems.
143 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
144 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
145 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
146 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
147 on cpan tester machines.
148
1493.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
150 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
151 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
152 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
153 make test.
154 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
155 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
156 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
157
1583.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
159 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
160 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
161 I didn't design epoll...).
162 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
163 backend in some cases.
164 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
165 with the init functions.
166 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
167 not creating the object reference each time.
168 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
169
1703.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
171 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
172 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
173 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
174 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
175 one precedence.
176 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
177 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
178
1793.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
180 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
181
1823.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
183 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
184 Vladimir Timofeev.
185
1863.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
187 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
188 and harmless.
189
1903.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
191 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
192 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
193 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
194
1953.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
196 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
197 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
198 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
199 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
200 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
201 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
202 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
203
2043.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
205 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
206 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
207 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
208 (and for the poor internetless person).
209
2103.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
211 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
212 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
213 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
214
2153.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
216 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
217
2183.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
219 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
220 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
221 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
222 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
223 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
224 - add async_pending method.
225
2263.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
227 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
228 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
229 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
230 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
231 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
232
2333.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
234 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
235 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
236 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
237
2383.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
239 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
240 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
241
2422.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
243 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
244 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
245 König).
246
2472.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
248 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
249 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
250 - expose fork watchers.
251 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
252 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
253 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
254 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
255 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
256 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
257 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
258 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
259 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
260
2611.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
262 - add periodic->at methods.
263
2641.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
265 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
266 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
3 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe. 267 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
268 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
4 269
51.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007 2701.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
6 - API version 3:0. 271 - API version 3:0.
7 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 272 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
8 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant 273 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
99 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module. 364 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
100 - use private copy of evdns.[ch]. 365 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
101 - many minor fixes. 366 - many minor fixes.
102 367
1030.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007 3680.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
104 - better native win32 support (not relevant for perl usually). 369 - (libev) better native win32 support.
105 - fix idle watchers. 370 - fix idle watchers.
106 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks. 371 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
107 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32). 372 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
108 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend. 373 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
109 374

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