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Revision: 1.170
Committed: Tue Apr 28 00:50:56 2009 UTC (15 years ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_6
Changes since 1.169: +1 -0 lines
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3.6

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1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
4 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
5 permanently.
6 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
7 accessible via the XS API.
8 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
9 added :/.
10 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
11 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
12 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
13 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
14 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
15 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
16 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
17 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
18 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
19 Malek Hadj-Ali).
20 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
21 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
22 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
23 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
24 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
25 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
26
27 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
28 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
29 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
30 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
31 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
32 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
33 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
34
35 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
36 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
37 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
38 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
39 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
40 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
41 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
42 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
43 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
44 should return fantasy port numbers.
45
46 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
47 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
48 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
49 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
50 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
51 avoid problems.
52 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
53 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
54 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
55 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
56 on cpan tester machines.
57
58 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
59 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
60 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
61 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
62 make test.
63 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
64 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
65 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
66
67 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
68 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
69 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
70 I didn't design epoll...).
71 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
72 backend in some cases.
73 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
74 with the init functions.
75 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
76 not creating the object reference each time.
77 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
78
79 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
80 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
81 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
82 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
83 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
84 one precedence.
85 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
86 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
87
88 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
89 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
90
91 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
92 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
93 Vladimir Timofeev.
94
95 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
96 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
97 and harmless.
98
99 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
100 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
101 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
102 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
103
104 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
105 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
106 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
107 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
108 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
109 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
110 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
111 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
112
113 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
114 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
115 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
116 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
117 (and for the poor internetless person).
118
119 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
120 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
121 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
122 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
123
124 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
125 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
126
127 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
128 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
129 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
130 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
131 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
132 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
133 - add async_pending method.
134
135 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
136 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
137 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
138 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
139 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
140 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
141
142 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
143 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
144 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
145 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
146
147 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
148 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
149 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
150
151 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
152 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
153 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
154 König).
155
156 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
157 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
158 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
159 - expose fork watchers.
160 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
161 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
162 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
163 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
164 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
165 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
166 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
167 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
168 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
169
170 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
171 - add periodic->at methods.
172
173 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
174 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
175 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
176 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
177 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
178
179 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
180 - API version 3:0.
181 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
182 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
183 even in its extensions :->
184 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
185 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
186 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
187 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
188 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
189 heap orderings.
190
191 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
192 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
193 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
194 - expose ev_clear_pending.
195 - renamed trigger to invoke.
196
197 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
198 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
199 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
200 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
201 - improved testsuite.
202
203 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
204 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
205 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
206 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
207 - add EV::loop_count.
208 - some space optimisations.
209
210 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
211 - add inotify backend.
212 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
213 add more stat tests.
214 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
215
216 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
217 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
218 - implement stat watcher interface.
219 - implement fork watcher interface.
220 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
221 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
222 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
223 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
224
225 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
226 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
227 - implement and document EV::once.
228 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
229 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
230 openbsd). Praise them!
231 - fix the data method so it might work.
232 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
233 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
234 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
235
236 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
237 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
238 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
239 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
240 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
241 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
242 configure them.
243
244 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
245 - improved timer test to include periodics and
246 withstand small timing variations.
247 - many minor tweaks to libev.
248
249 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
250 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
251 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
252 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
253 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
254 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
255
256 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
257 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
258 way this is used inside libev.
259 - many, many bugfixes.
260 - add unloop constants.
261 - add timer test.
262 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
263
264 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
265 - fix "testsuite" again :().
266 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
267 - enourmously many fixes.
268 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
269 - cache socket handles on win32.
270 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
271
272 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
273 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
274 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
275 - many minor fixes.
276
277 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
278 - (libev) better native win32 support.
279 - fix idle watchers.
280 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
281 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
282 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
283
284 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
285 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
286 - work around design issues in kqueue.
287 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
288
289 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
290 - add signal and pid mutators.
291 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
292 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
293 - support event priorities.
294 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
295 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
296 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
297 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
298
299 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
300 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
301 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
302 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
303 - performance optimisations.
304 - added interactive configuration.
305 - added fork support.
306
307 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
308 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
309 - improve documentation.
310 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
311 - support signal anyevent watchers.
312 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
313 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
314 - force strings to byte form.
315
316 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
317 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
318 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
319
320 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
321 - initial release.
322
323 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
324 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
325