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Revision 1.95 by root, Thu Dec 20 07:12:56 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.181 by root, Sun Aug 9 13:30:41 2009 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
2 2
3TODO: document fork watchers 33.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
4TODO: implement loops 4 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
5TODO: implement embed watchers 5 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
6 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
7 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
8 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
9 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
10 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
11 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
12 state when using libev's signal handling.
13 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
14 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
15 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
16 with AnyEvent.
6 17
183.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
19 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
20 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
21 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
22 - use common schmorp.h header.
23 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
24 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
25 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
26 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
27
28 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
29 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
30 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
31 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
32 - add $timer->remaining.
33 - add EV::loop_depth.
34 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
35 for new events.
36 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
37 for slightly higher accuracy.
38 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
39 signals.
40
413.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
42 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
43 permanently.
44 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
45 accessible via the XS API.
46 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
47 added :/.
48 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
49 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
50 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
51 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
52 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
53 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
54 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
55 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
56 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
57 Malek Hadj-Ali).
58 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
59 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
60 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
61 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
62 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
63 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
64
653.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
66 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
67 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
68 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
69 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
70 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
71 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
72
733.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
74 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
75 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
76 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
77 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
78 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
79 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
80 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
81 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
82 should return fantasy port numbers.
83
843.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
85 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
86 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
87 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
88 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
89 avoid problems.
90 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
91 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
92 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
93 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
94 on cpan tester machines.
95
963.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
97 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
98 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
99 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
100 make test.
101 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
102 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
103 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
104
1053.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
106 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
107 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
108 I didn't design epoll...).
109 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
110 backend in some cases.
111 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
112 with the init functions.
113 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
114 not creating the object reference each time.
115 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
116
1173.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
118 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
119 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
120 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
121 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
122 one precedence.
123 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
124 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
125
1263.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
127 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
128
1293.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
130 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
131 Vladimir Timofeev.
132
1333.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
134 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
135 and harmless.
136
1373.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
138 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
139 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
140 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
141
1423.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
143 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
144 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
145 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
146 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
147 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
148 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
149 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
150
1513.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
152 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
153 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
154 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
155 (and for the poor internetless person).
156
1573.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
158 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
159 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
160 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
161
1623.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
163 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
164
1653.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
166 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
167 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
168 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
169 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
170 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
171 - add async_pending method.
172
1733.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
174 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
175 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
176 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
177 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
178 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
179
1803.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
181 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
182 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
183 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
184
1853.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
186 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
187 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
188
1892.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
190 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
191 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
192 König).
193
1942.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
195 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
196 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
7 - expose fork watchers. 197 - expose fork watchers.
8 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API. 198 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
9 - (libev) renamed ev_embed.loop to other. 199 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
10 - (libev) added exported Symbol tables. 200 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
11 - (libev) undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c. 201 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
202 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
203 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
204 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
205 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
206 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
12 207
131.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007 2081.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
14 - (libev) fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
15 - add periodic->at methods. 209 - add periodic->at methods.
16 210
171.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007 2111.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
18 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that 212 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
19 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible. 213 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
20 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe. 214 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
21 - (libev) fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
22 (not relevant for perl).
23 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed. 215 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
24 216
251.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007 2171.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
26 - API version 3:0. 218 - API version 3:0.
27 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 219 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll

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