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Revision: 1.178
Committed: Sun Jul 19 01:36:34 2009 UTC (14 years, 9 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 TODO: NSIG etc.
4 TODO: eventfd2
5
6 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
7 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
8 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
9 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
10 - use common schmorp.h header.
11 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
12 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
13 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
14 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
15
16 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
17 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
18 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
19 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
20 - add $timer->remaining.
21 - add EV::loop_depth.
22 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
23 for new events.
24 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
25 for slightly higher accuracy.
26 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
27 signals.
28
29 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
30 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
31 permanently.
32 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
33 accessible via the XS API.
34 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
35 added :/.
36 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
37 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
38 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
39 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
40 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
41 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
42 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
43 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
44 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
45 Malek Hadj-Ali).
46 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
47 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
48 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
49 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
50 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
51 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
52
53 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
54 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
55 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
56 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
57 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
58 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
59 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
60
61 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
62 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
63 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
64 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
65 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
66 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
67 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
68 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
69 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
70 should return fantasy port numbers.
71
72 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
73 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
74 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
75 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
76 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
77 avoid problems.
78 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
79 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
80 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
81 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
82 on cpan tester machines.
83
84 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
85 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
86 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
87 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
88 make test.
89 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
90 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
91 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
92
93 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
94 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
95 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
96 I didn't design epoll...).
97 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
98 backend in some cases.
99 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
100 with the init functions.
101 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
102 not creating the object reference each time.
103 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
104
105 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
106 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
107 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
108 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
109 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
110 one precedence.
111 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
112 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
113
114 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
115 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
116
117 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
118 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
119 Vladimir Timofeev.
120
121 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
122 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
123 and harmless.
124
125 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
126 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
127 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
128 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
129
130 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
131 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
132 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
133 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
134 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
135 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
136 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
137 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
138
139 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
140 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
141 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
142 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
143 (and for the poor internetless person).
144
145 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
146 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
147 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
148 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
149
150 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
151 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
152
153 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
154 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
155 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
156 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
157 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
158 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
159 - add async_pending method.
160
161 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
162 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
163 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
164 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
165 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
166 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
167
168 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
169 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
170 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
171 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
172
173 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
174 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
175 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
176
177 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
178 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
179 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
180 König).
181
182 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
183 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
184 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
185 - expose fork watchers.
186 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
187 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
188 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
189 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
190 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
191 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
192 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
193 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
194 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
195
196 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
197 - add periodic->at methods.
198
199 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
200 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
201 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
202 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
203 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
204
205 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
206 - API version 3:0.
207 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
208 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
209 even in its extensions :->
210 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
211 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
212 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
213 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
214 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
215 heap orderings.
216
217 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
218 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
219 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
220 - expose ev_clear_pending.
221 - renamed trigger to invoke.
222
223 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
224 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
225 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
226 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
227 - improved testsuite.
228
229 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
230 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
231 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
232 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
233 - add EV::loop_count.
234 - some space optimisations.
235
236 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
237 - add inotify backend.
238 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
239 add more stat tests.
240 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
241
242 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
243 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
244 - implement stat watcher interface.
245 - implement fork watcher interface.
246 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
247 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
248 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
249 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
250
251 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
252 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
253 - implement and document EV::once.
254 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
255 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
256 openbsd). Praise them!
257 - fix the data method so it might work.
258 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
259 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
260 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
261
262 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
263 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
264 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
265 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
266 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
267 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
268 configure them.
269
270 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
271 - improved timer test to include periodics and
272 withstand small timing variations.
273 - many minor tweaks to libev.
274
275 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
276 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
277 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
278 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
279 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
280 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
281
282 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
283 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
284 way this is used inside libev.
285 - many, many bugfixes.
286 - add unloop constants.
287 - add timer test.
288 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
289
290 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
291 - fix "testsuite" again :().
292 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
293 - enourmously many fixes.
294 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
295 - cache socket handles on win32.
296 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
297
298 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
299 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
300 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
301 - many minor fixes.
302
303 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
304 - (libev) better native win32 support.
305 - fix idle watchers.
306 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
307 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
308 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
309
310 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
311 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
312 - work around design issues in kqueue.
313 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
314
315 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
316 - add signal and pid mutators.
317 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
318 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
319 - support event priorities.
320 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
321 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
322 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
323 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
324
325 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
326 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
327 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
328 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
329 - performance optimisations.
330 - added interactive configuration.
331 - added fork support.
332
333 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
334 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
335 - improve documentation.
336 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
337 - support signal anyevent watchers.
338 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
339 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
340 - force strings to byte form.
341
342 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
343 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
344 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
345
346 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
347 - initial release.
348
349 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
350 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
351