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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 might have more
4TODO: implement loops 4documentation in the libev Changes file.
5TODO: implement embed watchers
6 5
6 - (libev) fixed a bug introduced in 4.31 when timerfds and signalfds were
7 used at the same time.
8 - (libev) 0 is now allowed as requested event mask in io watchers.
9 - (libev) once-per-minute wakeups will now be optimized away when
10 timerfds are available
11 - use the new ev_io_modify in EV::IO->events, instead of the potentially
12 slower ev_io_set.
13 - add a bunch of mutator methods, mostly untested(!): EV::Timer->repeat,
14 EV::Periodic->offset, EV::Periodic->interval,
15 EV::Periodic->reschedule_cb.
16 - minor optimisations and bugfixes.
17
184.31 Fri Dec 20 21:57:00 CET 2019
19 - (libev) handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by
20 not waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
21 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
22 - (libev) use timerfd to detect timejumps.
23 - (libev) new loop flag: EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD.
24
254.30 Fri Nov 22 21:00:00 CET 2019
26 - (libev) use a different and hopefully even more portable
27 test to disable io_uring when header files are too old,
28 by directly testing LINUX_VERSION_CODE.
29 - (libev) fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
30 backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
31
324.29 Fri Nov 22 15:34:29 CET 2019
33 - (libev) add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection,
34 the latter of which should disable io_uring compilation
35 on old systems.
36
374.28 Tue Nov 19 13:55:39 CET 2019
38 - (libev) fix ev_port backend, thanks to David H. Gutteridge for
39 - (libev) many bugfixes in linuxaio backend.
40 - (libev) experimental io uring interface.
41 reminding me to actually release the fix.
42 - try to name ev.h more explicitly, to hopefully improve portability.
43 - opportunistically round up wait times for poll and epoll backend,
44 to avoid unnecessary loop iterations.
45 - add build dependency on ev_linuxaio.c.
46 - quickly (re)-ported to minix 3.3 before minix crashed again.
47
484.27 Thu Jun 27 09:39:58 CEST 2019
49 - (libev) completely rewritten linuxaio backend, maybe
50 usable as a general-use backend.
51 - (libev) use more aggressive assertions to catch
52 more usage errors.
53 - allow users to re-enable assert() in case it is disabled
54 by perl (which is typically the case).
55
564.26 Mon Jun 24 23:39:40 CEST 2019
57 - (libev) included experimental linux aio backend.
58 - allow the linux aio backend to be used by default
59 only when explicitly configured during Makefile.PL time.
60
614.25 Fri Dec 21 08:04:26 CET 2018
62 - (libev) updated to libev 4.25, minor fixes and enhancements.
63 - document the requirement to "use EV" when using EV::MakeMaker.
64 - only use __register_atfork with glibc and uclibc, as musl
65 defines __linux__, but doesn't implement the linux standard
66 base ABI, nor makes itself detectable via a macro, both apparently
67 by design, winning the "broken by design 2016 award" - well done.
68 - correct EV::periodic example 24h after midnight -> one day after
69 midnight (reported by Felix Ostmann).
70
714.22 Sun Dec 20 02:34:39 CET 2015
72 - (libev) when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
73 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
74 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
75 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
76 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
77 - (libev) remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
78 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
79 - updated libecb.
80
814.21 Mon Jul 13 21:47:33 CEST 2015
82 - allow argument in timer->again.
83 - document timer->remaining.
84 - document default repeat value for timer->set.
85
864.20 Sat Jun 20 13:07:34 CEST 2015
87 - added stability canary support.
88 - truly rely on automatic configuration for clock_gettime and others.
89 unfortunately, this doesn't help with activeperl and similar perls,
90 which define _POSIX_TIMERS without actually implementing any of it.
91 - (libev, ecb) make it compile as C++ again.
92 - (libev) fix a potential aliasing issue when accessing watcher cbs.
93
944.18 Sat Sep 6 20:37:23 CEST 2014
95 - use slightly better weay to find includes, to support multiarch
96 on newer perls.
97
984.17 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
99 - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
100 without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
101 in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
102 compatibility - I will never understand.
103
1044.16 Sat Mar 8 16:49:05 CET 2014
105 - make sure EV::CHECK is available at all times.
106 - avoid a spurious warning when perl -w overrides "no warnings".
107 - use perl's signal implementation on WIN32.
108 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
109 pointers.
110 - (libev) mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
111 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
112 - (libev) in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
113 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
114 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
115 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
116 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
117
1184.15 Fri Mar 1 12:15:53 CET 2013
119 - (libev) upgrade to 4.15 - too many changes to list.
120 - EV::run now returns a boolean.
121 - API version 5:1.
122 - document that cleanup watchers are not available via perl.
123 - cast I32 to int in error message printf.
124 - remove dependencies on librt and libpthreads on GNU/Linux.
125
1264.11 Sat Feb 4 19:56:26 CET 2012
127 - (libev) implement memory fences for (obsolete) llvm-gcc.
128
1294.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012
130 - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork
131 bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore.
132 - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement
133 a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call
134 both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
135 - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat).
136 - replace more old api names by new ones.
137
1384.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
139 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
140 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
141 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
142 but also links against -lrt.
143 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
144 - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
145 - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
146 - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
147
1484.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
149 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
150 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
151 previous invocations.
152
1534.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
154 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
155 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
156 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
157 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
158 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
159
1604.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
161 - many API changes, see the manual.
162 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
163 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
164 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
165 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
166 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
167 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
168 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
169 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
170 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
171 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
172 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
173 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
174 translated to C.
175 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
176 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
177
1783.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
179 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
180 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
181 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
182 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
183 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
184 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
185 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
186 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
187 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
188 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
189 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
190 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
191 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
192
1933.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
194 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
195 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
196 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
197 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
198 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
199 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
200 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
201 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
202 state when using libev's signal handling.
203 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
204 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
205 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
206 with AnyEvent.
207
2083.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
209 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
210 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
211 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
212 - use common schmorp.h header.
213 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
214 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
215 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
216 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
217
218 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
219 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
220 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
221 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
222 - add $timer->remaining.
223 - add EV::loop_depth.
224 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
225 for new events.
226 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
227 for slightly higher accuracy.
228 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
229 signals.
230
2313.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
232 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
233 permanently.
234 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
235 accessible via the XS API.
236 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
237 added :/.
238 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
239 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
240 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
241 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
242 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
243 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
244 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
245 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
246 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
247 Malek Hadj-Ali).
248 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
249 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
250 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
251 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
252 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
253 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
254
2553.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
256 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
257 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
258 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
259 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
260 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
261 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
262
2633.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
264 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
265 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
266 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
267 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
268 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
269 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
270 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
271 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
272 should return fantasy port numbers.
273
2743.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
275 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
276 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
277 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
278 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
279 avoid problems.
280 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
281 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
282 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
283 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
284 on cpan tester machines.
285
2863.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
287 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
288 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
289 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
290 make test.
291 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
292 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
293 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
294
2953.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
296 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
297 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
298 I didn't design epoll...).
299 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
300 backend in some cases.
301 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
302 with the init functions.
303 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
304 not creating the object reference each time.
305 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
306
3073.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
308 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
309 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
310 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
311 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
312 one precedence.
313 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
314 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
315
3163.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
317 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
318
3193.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
320 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
321 Vladimir Timofeev.
322
3233.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
324 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
325 and harmless.
326
3273.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
328 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
329 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
330 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
331
3323.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
333 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
334 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
335 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
336 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
337 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
338 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
339 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
340
3413.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
342 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
343 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
344 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
345 (and for the poor internetless person).
346
3473.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
348 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
349 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
350 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
351
3523.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
353 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
354
3553.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
356 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
357 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
358 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
359 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
360 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
361 - add async_pending method.
362
3633.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
364 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
365 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
366 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
367 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
368 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
369
3703.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
371 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
372 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
373 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
374
3753.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
376 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
377 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
378
3792.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
380 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
381 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
382 König).
383
3842.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
385 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
386 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
7 - expose fork watchers. 387 - expose fork watchers.
8 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API. 388 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
9 - (libev) renamed ev_embed.loop to other. 389 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
10 - (libev) added exported Symbol tables. 390 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
11 - (libev) undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c. 391 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
392 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
393 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
394 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
395 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
396 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
12 397
131.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007 3981.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
14 - (libev) fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
15 - add periodic->at methods. 399 - add periodic->at methods.
16 400
171.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007 4011.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
18 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that 402 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
19 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible. 403 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
20 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe. 404 - 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. 405 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
24 406
251.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007 4071.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
26 - API version 3:0. 408 - API version 3:0.
27 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll 409 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll

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