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Revision: 1.182
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1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
4
5 3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
6 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
7 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
8 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
9 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
10 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
11 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
12 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
13 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
14 state when using libev's signal handling.
15 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
16 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
17 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
18 with AnyEvent.
19
20 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
21 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
22 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
23 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
24 - use common schmorp.h header.
25 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
26 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
27 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
28 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
29
30 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
31 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
32 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
33 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
34 - add $timer->remaining.
35 - add EV::loop_depth.
36 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
37 for new events.
38 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
39 for slightly higher accuracy.
40 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
41 signals.
42
43 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
44 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
45 permanently.
46 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
47 accessible via the XS API.
48 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
49 added :/.
50 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
51 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
52 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
53 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
54 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
55 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
56 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
57 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
58 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
59 Malek Hadj-Ali).
60 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
61 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
62 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
63 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
64 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
65 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
66
67 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
68 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
69 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
70 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
71 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
72 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
73 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
74
75 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
76 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
77 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
78 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
79 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
80 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
81 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
82 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
83 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
84 should return fantasy port numbers.
85
86 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
87 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
88 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
89 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
90 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
91 avoid problems.
92 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
93 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
94 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
95 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
96 on cpan tester machines.
97
98 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
99 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
100 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
101 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
102 make test.
103 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
104 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
105 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
106
107 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
108 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
109 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
110 I didn't design epoll...).
111 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
112 backend in some cases.
113 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
114 with the init functions.
115 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
116 not creating the object reference each time.
117 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
118
119 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
120 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
121 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
122 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
123 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
124 one precedence.
125 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
126 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
127
128 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
129 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
130
131 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
132 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
133 Vladimir Timofeev.
134
135 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
136 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
137 and harmless.
138
139 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
140 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
141 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
142 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
143
144 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
145 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
146 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
147 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
148 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
149 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
150 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
151 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
152
153 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
154 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
155 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
156 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
157 (and for the poor internetless person).
158
159 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
160 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
161 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
162 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
163
164 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
165 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
166
167 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
168 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
169 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
170 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
171 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
172 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
173 - add async_pending method.
174
175 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
176 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
177 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
178 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
179 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
180 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
181
182 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
183 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
184 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
185 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
186
187 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
188 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
189 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
190
191 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
192 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
193 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
194 König).
195
196 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
197 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
198 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
199 - expose fork watchers.
200 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
201 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
202 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
203 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
204 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
205 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
206 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
207 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
208 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
209
210 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
211 - add periodic->at methods.
212
213 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
214 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
215 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
216 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
217 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
218
219 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
220 - API version 3:0.
221 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
222 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
223 even in its extensions :->
224 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
225 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
226 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
227 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
228 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
229 heap orderings.
230
231 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
232 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
233 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
234 - expose ev_clear_pending.
235 - renamed trigger to invoke.
236
237 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
238 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
239 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
240 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
241 - improved testsuite.
242
243 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
244 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
245 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
246 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
247 - add EV::loop_count.
248 - some space optimisations.
249
250 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
251 - add inotify backend.
252 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
253 add more stat tests.
254 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
255
256 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
257 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
258 - implement stat watcher interface.
259 - implement fork watcher interface.
260 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
261 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
262 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
263 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
264
265 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
266 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
267 - implement and document EV::once.
268 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
269 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
270 openbsd). Praise them!
271 - fix the data method so it might work.
272 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
273 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
274 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
275
276 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
277 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
278 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
279 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
280 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
281 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
282 configure them.
283
284 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
285 - improved timer test to include periodics and
286 withstand small timing variations.
287 - many minor tweaks to libev.
288
289 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
290 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
291 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
292 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
293 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
294 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
295
296 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
297 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
298 way this is used inside libev.
299 - many, many bugfixes.
300 - add unloop constants.
301 - add timer test.
302 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
303
304 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
305 - fix "testsuite" again :().
306 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
307 - enourmously many fixes.
308 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
309 - cache socket handles on win32.
310 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
311
312 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
313 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
314 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
315 - many minor fixes.
316
317 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
318 - (libev) better native win32 support.
319 - fix idle watchers.
320 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
321 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
322 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
323
324 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
325 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
326 - work around design issues in kqueue.
327 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
328
329 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
330 - add signal and pid mutators.
331 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
332 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
333 - support event priorities.
334 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
335 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
336 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
337 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
338
339 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
340 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
341 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
342 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
343 - performance optimisations.
344 - added interactive configuration.
345 - added fork support.
346
347 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
348 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
349 - improve documentation.
350 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
351 - support signal anyevent watchers.
352 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
353 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
354 - force strings to byte form.
355
356 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
357 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
358 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
359
360 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
361 - initial release.
362
363 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
364 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
365