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Revision 1.95 by root, Thu Dec 20 07:12:56 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.200 by root, Sun Nov 28 06:34:10 2010 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension EV 1Revision history for Perl extension EV
2 2
3TODO: document fork watchers 3Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4TODO: implement loops 4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5TODO: implement embed watchers
6 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 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
10 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for minimal build.
11
124.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
13 - many API changes, see the manual.
14 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
15 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
16 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
17 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
18 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
19 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
20 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
21 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
22 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
23 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
24 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
25 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
26 translated to C.
27 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
28 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
29
303.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
31 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
32 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
33 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
34 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
35 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
36 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
37 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
38 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
39 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
40 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
41 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
42 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
43 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
44
453.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
46 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
47 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
48 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
49 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
50 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
51 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
52 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
53 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
54 state when using libev's signal handling.
55 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
56 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
57 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
58 with AnyEvent.
59
603.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
61 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
62 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
63 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
64 - use common schmorp.h header.
65 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
66 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
67 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
68 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
69
70 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
71 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
72 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
73 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
74 - add $timer->remaining.
75 - add EV::loop_depth.
76 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
77 for new events.
78 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
79 for slightly higher accuracy.
80 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
81 signals.
82
833.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
84 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
85 permanently.
86 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
87 accessible via the XS API.
88 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
89 added :/.
90 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
91 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
92 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
93 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
94 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
95 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
96 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
97 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
98 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
99 Malek Hadj-Ali).
100 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
101 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
102 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
103 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
104 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
105 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
106
1073.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
108 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
109 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
110 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
111 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
112 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
113 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
114
1153.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
116 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
117 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
118 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
119 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
120 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
121 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
122 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
123 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
124 should return fantasy port numbers.
125
1263.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
127 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
128 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
129 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
130 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
131 avoid problems.
132 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
133 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
134 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
135 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
136 on cpan tester machines.
137
1383.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
139 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
140 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
141 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
142 make test.
143 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
144 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
145 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
146
1473.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
148 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
149 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
150 I didn't design epoll...).
151 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
152 backend in some cases.
153 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
154 with the init functions.
155 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
156 not creating the object reference each time.
157 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
158
1593.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
160 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
161 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
162 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
163 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
164 one precedence.
165 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
166 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
167
1683.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
169 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
170
1713.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
172 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
173 Vladimir Timofeev.
174
1753.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
176 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
177 and harmless.
178
1793.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
180 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
181 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
182 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
183
1843.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
185 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
186 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
187 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
188 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
189 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
190 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
191 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
192
1933.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
194 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
195 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
196 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
197 (and for the poor internetless person).
198
1993.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
200 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
201 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
202 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
203
2043.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
205 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
206
2073.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
208 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
209 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
210 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
211 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
212 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
213 - add async_pending method.
214
2153.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
216 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
217 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
218 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
219 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
220 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
221
2223.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
223 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
224 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
225 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
226
2273.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
228 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
229 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
230
2312.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
232 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
233 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
234 König).
235
2362.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
237 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
238 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
7 - expose fork watchers. 239 - expose fork watchers.
8 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API. 240 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
9 - (libev) renamed ev_embed.loop to other. 241 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
10 - (libev) added exported Symbol tables. 242 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
11 - (libev) undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c. 243 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
244 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
245 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
246 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
247 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
248 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
12 249
131.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007 2501.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
14 - (libev) fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
15 - add periodic->at methods. 251 - add periodic->at methods.
16 252
171.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007 2531.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
18 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that 254 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
19 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible. 255 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
20 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe. 256 - 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. 257 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
24 258
251.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007 2591.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
26 - API version 3:0. 260 - API version 3:0.
27 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 261 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll

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