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Revision: 1.209
Committed: Thu Jan 19 17:55:23 2012 UTC (12 years, 3 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: EV_rel-4_10
Changes since 1.208: +6 -0 lines
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4.10

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# Content
1 Revision history for Perl extension EV
2
3 Changes marked with (libev) are changes in libev, and have more
4 documentation in the libev Changes file.
5
6 4.10 Thu Jan 19 18:54:23 CET 2012
7 - (libev) fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork
8 bugs caused signals to not be handled anymore.
9 - (libev) correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement
10 a windows specific workaround to avoid looping because we call
11 both select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
12 - e_new wasn't declared static (causing very minor .so bloat).
13 - replace more old api names by new ones.
14
15 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:51:05 CET 2011
16 - do not avoid the clock_gettime call on GNU/Linux anymore, as EV
17 links against -lpthread anyways - as a result, EV might now take
18 advantage of fast userspace clock_gettime implementations,
19 but also links against -lrt.
20 - (libev) lots of event port bug workarounds.
21 - (libev) officially support files in I/O watchers.
22 - (libev) new function ev_feed_signal.
23 - fix documentation parts still refering to the 3.x API.
24
25 4.02 Thu Dec 30 08:27:41 CET 2010
26 - the revents argument did not stringify correctly, as only the
27 numeric value was updated, while the string value was kept from
28 previous invocations.
29
30 4.01 Sun Dec 5 12:42:13 CET 2010
31 - fully support EV_COMPAT3=0.
32 - default_fork was stupidly defined as inline.
33 - ask cpan to upgrade AnyEvent if < 5.29.
34 - support EV_EXTRA_DEFS during configuration.
35 - support -DEV_NO_LOOPS for snakker build.
36
37 4.00 Mon Oct 25 13:30:09 CEST 2010
38 - many API changes, see the manual.
39 - (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
40 - fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event
41 multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
42 - greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
43 - expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
44 - implement ev_cleanup watchers.
45 - (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
46 - (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
47 - (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
48 - (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
49 - (libev) no child watchers on win32.
50 - make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever
51 translated to C.
52 - document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
53 - ported to minix 3.1.7.
54
55 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
56 - disable t/07* under automatic testing.
57 - increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken
58 select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
59 - add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and
60 EV::BACKEND_ALL.
61 - (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
62 - (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
63 - (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
64 - (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
65 - (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
66 - (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
67 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
68 - (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.
69
70 3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
71 - implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
72 - (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
73 handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
74 - (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
75 members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
76 repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
77 - (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
78 - (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
79 state when using libev's signal handling.
80 - (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
81 cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
82 - implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
83 with AnyEvent.
84
85 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
86 - add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
87 - use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
88 for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
89 - use common schmorp.h header.
90 - add EV::Timer->remaining.
91 - allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
92 EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
93 - added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
94
95 - (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
96 exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
97 - (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
98 - add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
99 - add $timer->remaining.
100 - add EV::loop_depth.
101 - (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
102 for new events.
103 - (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
104 for slightly higher accuracy.
105 - (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
106 signals.
107
108 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
109 - keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
110 permanently.
111 - add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
112 accessible via the XS API.
113 - most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
114 added :/.
115 - add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
116 - (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
117 iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
118 - (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
119 no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
120 loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
121 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
122 - (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
123 and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
124 Malek Hadj-Ali).
125 - (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
126 - (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
127 - (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
128 - (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
129 - (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
130 - t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
131
132 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
133 - (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
134 due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
135 - (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
136 fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
137 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
138 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
139
140 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
141 - (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
142 - (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
143 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
144 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
145 - (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
146 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
147 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
148 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
149 should return fantasy port numbers.
150
151 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
152 - do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
153 indicates that the callback has stolen them.
154 - (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
155 - (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
156 avoid problems.
157 - (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
158 - (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
159 only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
160 - play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
161 on cpan tester machines.
162
163 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
164 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
165 - increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
166 machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
167 make test.
168 - possible 5.6 compatibility.
169 - (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
170 - (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
171
172 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
173 - (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
174 and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
175 I didn't design epoll...).
176 - (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
177 backend in some cases.
178 - (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
179 with the init functions.
180 - speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
181 not creating the object reference each time.
182 - EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
183
184 3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
185 - (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
186 - (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
187 - (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
188 the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
189 one precedence.
190 - install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
191 - (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
192
193 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
194 - (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
195
196 3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
197 - made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
198 Vladimir Timofeev.
199
200 3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
201 - disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
202 and harmless.
203
204 3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
205 - (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
206 windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
207 flags in select, but this version of libev will.
208
209 3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
210 - (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
211 - (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
212 - expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
213 - clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
214 - verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
215 reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
216 speed increase (as well as saving memory).
217
218 3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
219 - (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
220 select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
221 - bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
222 (and for the poor internetless person).
223
224 3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
225 - (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
226 cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
227 - remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
228
229 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
230 - (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
231
232 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
233 - (libev) linux eventfd support.
234 - (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
235 - (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
236 - (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
237 - added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
238 - add async_pending method.
239
240 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
241 - "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
242 - relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
243 - fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
244 - (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
245 - (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
246
247 3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
248 - add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
249 - provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
250 - new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
251
252 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
253 - upgrade to libev-3.0.
254 - change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
255
256 2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
257 - found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
258 caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
259 König).
260
261 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
262 - no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
263 on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
264 - expose fork watchers.
265 - switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
266 - use a slightly different include file name strategy.
267 - get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
268 - 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
269 when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
270 - very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
271 - fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
272 - create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
273 - fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
274
275 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
276 - add periodic->at methods.
277
278 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
279 - further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
280 avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
281 - EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
282 - optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
283
284 1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
285 - API version 3:0.
286 - reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
287 and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
288 even in its extensions :->
289 - improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
290 by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
291 - recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
292 to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
293 - fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
294 heap orderings.
295
296 1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
297 - add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
298 so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
299 - expose ev_clear_pending.
300 - renamed trigger to invoke.
301
302 1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
303 - changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
304 - allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
305 - fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
306 - improved testsuite.
307
308 1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
309 - add a missing SPAGAIN.
310 - ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
311 - make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
312 - add EV::loop_count.
313 - some space optimisations.
314
315 1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
316 - add inotify backend.
317 - make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
318 add more stat tests.
319 - add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
320
321 1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
322 - work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
323 - implement stat watcher interface.
324 - implement fork watcher interface.
325 - io->set did not keep the fh alive.
326 - actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
327 - cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
328 - work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
329
330 1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
331 - stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
332 - implement and document EV::once.
333 - improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
334 working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
335 openbsd). Praise them!
336 - fix the data method so it might work.
337 - expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
338 - expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
339 - minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
340
341 1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
342 - disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
343 darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
344 - add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
345 vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
346 - add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
347 configure them.
348
349 1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
350 - improved timer test to include periodics and
351 withstand small timing variations.
352 - many minor tweaks to libev.
353
354 1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
355 - require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
356 - add solaris 10 port-based backend.
357 - add child_ns and fix check_ns.
358 - treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
359 documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
360
361 0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
362 - changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
363 way this is used inside libev.
364 - many, many bugfixes.
365 - add unloop constants.
366 - add timer test.
367 - ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
368
369 0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
370 - fix "testsuite" again :().
371 - fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
372 - enourmously many fixes.
373 - rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
374 - cache socket handles on win32.
375 - provide considerably finer control over configuration.
376
377 0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
378 - move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
379 - use private copy of evdns.[ch].
380 - many minor fixes.
381
382 0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
383 - (libev) better native win32 support.
384 - fix idle watchers.
385 - implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
386 - do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
387 - fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
388
389 0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
390 - fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
391 - work around design issues in kqueue.
392 - enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
393
394 0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
395 - add signal and pid mutators.
396 - add rstatus/rpid accessors.
397 - updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
398 - support event priorities.
399 - try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
400 - improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
401 - experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
402 - ported to cygwin and native win32.
403
404 0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
405 - replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
406 - many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
407 - new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
408 - performance optimisations.
409 - added interactive configuration.
410 - added fork support.
411
412 0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
413 - add timed_io convenience constructors.
414 - improve documentation.
415 - support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
416 - support signal anyevent watchers.
417 - vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
418 - add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
419 - force strings to byte form.
420
421 0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
422 - call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
423 - add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
424
425 0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
426 - initial release.
427
428 0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
429 - original version; cloned from JSON::XS
430