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Revision: 1.181
Committed: Sun Aug 9 13:30:41 2009 UTC (14 years, 9 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_8
Changes since 1.180: +13 -0 lines
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3.8

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1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
4 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
5 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
6 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
7 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
8 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
9 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
10 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
11 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
12 state when using libev's signal handling.
13 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
14 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
15 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
16 with AnyEvent.
17
18 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
19 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
20 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
21 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
22 - use common schmorp.h header.
23 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
24 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
25 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
26 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
27
28 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
29 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
30 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
31 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
32 - add $timer->remaining.
33 - add EV::loop_depth.
34 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
35 for new events.
36 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
37 for slightly higher accuracy.
38 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
39 signals.
40
41 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
42 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
43 permanently.
44 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
45 accessible via the XS API.
46 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
47 added :/.
48 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
49 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
50 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
51 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
52 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
53 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
54 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
55 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
56 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
57 Malek Hadj-Ali).
58 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
59 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
60 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
61 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
62 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
63 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
64
65 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
66 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
67 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
68 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
69 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
70 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
71 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
72
73 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
74 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
75 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
76 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
77 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
78 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
79 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
80 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
81 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
82 should return fantasy port numbers.
83
84 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
85 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
86 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
87 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
88 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
89 avoid problems.
90 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
91 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
92 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
93 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
94 on cpan tester machines.
95
96 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
97 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
98 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
99 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
100 make test.
101 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
102 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
103 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
104
105 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
106 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
107 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
108 I didn't design epoll...).
109 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
110 backend in some cases.
111 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
112 with the init functions.
113 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
114 not creating the object reference each time.
115 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
116
117 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
118 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
119 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
120 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
121 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
122 one precedence.
123 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
124 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
125
126 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
127 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
128
129 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
130 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
131 Vladimir Timofeev.
132
133 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
134 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
135 and harmless.
136
137 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
138 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
139 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
140 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
141
142 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
143 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
144 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
145 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
146 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
147 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
148 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
149 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
150
151 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
152 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
153 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
154 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
155 (and for the poor internetless person).
156
157 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
158 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
159 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
160 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
161
162 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
163 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
164
165 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
166 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
167 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
168 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
169 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
170 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
171 - add async_pending method.
172
173 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
174 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
175 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
176 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
177 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
178 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
179
180 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
181 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
182 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
183 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
184
185 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
186 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
187 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
188
189 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
190 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
191 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
192 König).
193
194 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
195 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
196 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
197 - expose fork watchers.
198 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
199 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
200 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
201 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
202 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
203 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
204 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
205 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
206 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
207
208 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
209 - add periodic->at methods.
210
211 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
212 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
213 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
214 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
215 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
216
217 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
218 - API version 3:0.
219 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
220 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
221 even in its extensions :->
222 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
223 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
224 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
225 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
226 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
227 heap orderings.
228
229 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
230 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
231 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
232 - expose ev_clear_pending.
233 - renamed trigger to invoke.
234
235 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
236 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
237 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
238 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
239 - improved testsuite.
240
241 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
242 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
243 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
244 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
245 - add EV::loop_count.
246 - some space optimisations.
247
248 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
249 - add inotify backend.
250 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
251 add more stat tests.
252 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
253
254 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
255 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
256 - implement stat watcher interface.
257 - implement fork watcher interface.
258 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
259 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
260 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
261 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
262
263 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
264 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
265 - implement and document EV::once.
266 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
267 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
268 openbsd). Praise them!
269 - fix the data method so it might work.
270 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
271 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
272 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
273
274 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
275 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
276 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
277 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
278 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
279 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
280 configure them.
281
282 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
283 - improved timer test to include periodics and
284 withstand small timing variations.
285 - many minor tweaks to libev.
286
287 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
288 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
289 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
290 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
291 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
292 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
293
294 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
295 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
296 way this is used inside libev.
297 - many, many bugfixes.
298 - add unloop constants.
299 - add timer test.
300 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
301
302 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
303 - fix "testsuite" again :().
304 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
305 - enourmously many fixes.
306 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
307 - cache socket handles on win32.
308 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
309
310 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
311 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
312 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
313 - many minor fixes.
314
315 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
316 - (libev) better native win32 support.
317 - fix idle watchers.
318 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
319 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
320 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
321
322 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
323 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
324 - work around design issues in kqueue.
325 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
326
327 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
328 - add signal and pid mutators.
329 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
330 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
331 - support event priorities.
332 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
333 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
334 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
335 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
336
337 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
338 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
339 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
340 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
341 - performance optimisations.
342 - added interactive configuration.
343 - added fork support.
344
345 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
346 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
347 - improve documentation.
348 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
349 - support signal anyevent watchers.
350 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
351 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
352 - force strings to byte form.
353
354 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
355 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
356 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
357
358 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
359 - initial release.
360
361 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
362 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
363