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Revision: 1.177
Committed: Fri Jul 17 14:49:33 2009 UTC (14 years, 10 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_7
Changes since 1.176: +14 -2 lines
Log Message:
3.7

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1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
4 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
5 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
6 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
7 - use common schmorp.h header.
8 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
9 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
10 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
11 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
12
13 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
14 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
15 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
16 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
17 - add $timer->remaining.
18 - add EV::loop_depth.
19 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
20 for new events.
21 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
22 for slightly higher accuracy.
23 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
24 signals.
25
26 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
27 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
28 permanently.
29 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
30 accessible via the XS API.
31 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
32 added :/.
33 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
34 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
35 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
36 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
37 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
38 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
39 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
40 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
41 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
42 Malek Hadj-Ali).
43 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
44 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
45 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
46 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
47 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
48 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
49
50 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
51 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
52 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
53 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
54 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
55 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
56 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
57
58 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
59 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
60 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
61 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
62 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
63 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
64 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
65 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
66 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
67 should return fantasy port numbers.
68
69 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
70 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
71 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
72 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
73 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
74 avoid problems.
75 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
76 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
77 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
78 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
79 on cpan tester machines.
80
81 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
82 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
83 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
84 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
85 make test.
86 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
87 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
88 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
89
90 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
91 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
92 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
93 I didn't design epoll...).
94 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
95 backend in some cases.
96 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
97 with the init functions.
98 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
99 not creating the object reference each time.
100 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
101
102 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
103 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
104 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
105 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
106 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
107 one precedence.
108 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
109 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
110
111 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
112 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
113
114 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
115 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
116 Vladimir Timofeev.
117
118 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
119 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
120 and harmless.
121
122 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
123 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
124 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
125 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
126
127 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
128 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
129 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
130 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
131 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
132 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
133 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
134 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
135
136 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
137 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
138 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
139 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
140 (and for the poor internetless person).
141
142 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
143 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
144 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
145 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
146
147 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
148 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
149
150 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
151 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
152 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
153 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
154 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
155 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
156 - add async_pending method.
157
158 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
159 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
160 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
161 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
162 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
163 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
164
165 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
166 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
167 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
168 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
169
170 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
171 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
172 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
173
174 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
175 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
176 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
177 König).
178
179 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
180 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
181 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
182 - expose fork watchers.
183 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
184 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
185 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
186 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
187 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
188 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
189 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
190 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
191 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
192
193 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
194 - add periodic->at methods.
195
196 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
197 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
198 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
199 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
200 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
201
202 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
203 - API version 3:0.
204 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
205 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
206 even in its extensions :->
207 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
208 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
209 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
210 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
211 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
212 heap orderings.
213
214 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
215 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
216 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
217 - expose ev_clear_pending.
218 - renamed trigger to invoke.
219
220 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
221 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
222 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
223 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
224 - improved testsuite.
225
226 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
227 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
228 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
229 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
230 - add EV::loop_count.
231 - some space optimisations.
232
233 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
234 - add inotify backend.
235 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
236 add more stat tests.
237 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
238
239 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
240 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
241 - implement stat watcher interface.
242 - implement fork watcher interface.
243 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
244 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
245 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
246 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
247
248 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
249 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
250 - implement and document EV::once.
251 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
252 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
253 openbsd). Praise them!
254 - fix the data method so it might work.
255 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
256 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
257 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
258
259 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
260 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
261 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
262 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
263 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
264 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
265 configure them.
266
267 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
268 - improved timer test to include periodics and
269 withstand small timing variations.
270 - many minor tweaks to libev.
271
272 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
273 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
274 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
275 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
276 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
277 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
278
279 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
280 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
281 way this is used inside libev.
282 - many, many bugfixes.
283 - add unloop constants.
284 - add timer test.
285 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
286
287 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
288 - fix "testsuite" again :().
289 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
290 - enourmously many fixes.
291 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
292 - cache socket handles on win32.
293 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
294
295 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
296 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
297 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
298 - many minor fixes.
299
300 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
301 - (libev) better native win32 support.
302 - fix idle watchers.
303 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
304 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
305 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
306
307 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
308 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
309 - work around design issues in kqueue.
310 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
311
312 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
313 - add signal and pid mutators.
314 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
315 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
316 - support event priorities.
317 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
318 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
319 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
320 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
321
322 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
323 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
324 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
325 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
326 - performance optimisations.
327 - added interactive configuration.
328 - added fork support.
329
330 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
331 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
332 - improve documentation.
333 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
334 - support signal anyevent watchers.
335 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
336 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
337 - force strings to byte form.
338
339 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
340 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
341 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
342
343 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
344 - initial release.
345
346 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
347 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
348