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Revision history for IO::AIO

TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking

        - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
          versions (omg).

3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
        - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
        - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
          is stupid.
        - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
        - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
          not to get initialised properly.

3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
        - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
        - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
        - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
        - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
        - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.

3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
        - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
        - bring back working fchmod.
        - nop and busy now set result to 0.
        - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.

3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
        - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
        - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
        - do not try to link against -lrt.
        - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).

3.0  Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
        - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
        - switched to using libeio.
        - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
          - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
          - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
          - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.

2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
        - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
          (analysed by Jost Krieger).
        - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
          so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.

2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
        - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
          also display files given on the commandline.
        - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
          and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
        - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
          allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
          use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
          on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
          and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).

2.6  Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
        - added aio_sync.
        - added aio_pathsync.
        - fix prototypes of (void) functions.

2.51 Sat Oct  6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
        - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
          aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
          (see the manpage for details).
        - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
          when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
        - minor code cleanups.

2.5  Thu Oct  4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
        - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
        - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
          work sensibly for the very first time.

2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
        - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
          stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
          it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
          behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.

2.4  Sun Aug  5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
        - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
          successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
        - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
          internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
        - allow undef for length in aio_write.
        - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
        - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
          have a larger range then.
        - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
        - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
        - readahead emulation now returns something.
        - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
          (should never happen, though).
        - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
          but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
          too many functions with crashing versions.

2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
        - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).

2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
        - added aio_rmtree.
        - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
        - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
        - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
          (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
        - avoid installing autoconf.pm.

2.31 Sat Jan  6 03:46:02 CET 2007
        - added aio_load.

2.3  Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
        - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
          or crashes.

2.21  Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
        - minor doc updates.
        - minor cleanups.
        - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
        - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.

2.2  Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
        - minor doc updates.
        - added aio_readlink.
        - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
        - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
        - reduced size of aio request structure.
        - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
          do not leak request in that case, either.

2.1  Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
          IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
        - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
          it would have to copy files manually.
        - doc updates.
        - start threads only on (very low) demand.
        - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
        - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
        - some tuning applied to random places.
        - add aio_mknod.

2.0  Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
        - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
        - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
        - aio requests can be cancelled.
        - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
        - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
        - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
          into composite requests.
        - generator interface for groups.
        - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
        - major documentation improvements.
        - very minor bugfixes.
        - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
        - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
        - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
        - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
          putting them onto the stack.
        - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
        - better error checking when ENOMEM.
        - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
        - warn about broken perl malloc.
        - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
          which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
          edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).

1.8  Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
        - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.

1.73 Wed Mar  1 22:49:32 CET 2006
        - codename "jost"
        - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
          for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
          wcooley@nakedape.cc).

1.72 Thu Feb  2 00:40:44 CET 2006
        - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
          twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.

1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
        - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
          in a runtime error.

1.7  Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
        - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
        - added AnyEvent example.

1.61 Wed Sep  7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
        - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
          garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
          (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
          libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
          wasting memory).

1.6  Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
        - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
        - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
          isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
          support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
          code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).

1.5  Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
        - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
        - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
          be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
        - abort when the configure script fails.

1.4  Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
        - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
          deadlocks.

1.3  Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
        - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
          eating them.
        - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
          invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
        - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
          length after reading.
        - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
          from the parent.
        - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
          (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
        - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
        - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
          scalar for better error reporting.

1.2  Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
        - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
        - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
          the external filename encoding first.
        - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
        - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
          with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
        - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
          posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
        - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
        - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
        - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
          error catching.

1.1  Sun Aug  7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
        - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
          (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
          feedback yet).
        - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
          and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
        - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
          from Linux::AIO.
        - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
          compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
        - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
        - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
          the fd to an fh.
        - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
          do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
          properly encode your pathnames.

1.0  Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
        - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
        - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
          it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
        - disable warnings in AIO.pm.

0.9  Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
        - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
        - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
        - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
          from Linux::AIO.
          (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
          does not implement pread/pwrite).
        - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.

0.5  Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
        - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
          need it anyway.
        - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
          and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.

0.4  Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
        - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
        - make callback argument optional for all calls.

0.3  Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
        - restructured manpage.
        - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
        - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
          it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).

0.2  Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
        - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
        - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
          communications for most requests and responses.

0.1
        - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.

Revision:	1.160
Committed:	Thu Jun 19 09:05:43 2008 UTC (15 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.159:	+3 -0 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.31	Revision history for IO::AIO
2	root	1.30
3	root	1.59	TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4	root	1.114	TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5	root	1.106	TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6	root	1.123	TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7	root	1.136	TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8	root	1.100
9	root	1.160	- work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
10			versions (omg).
11
12	root	1.159	3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
13			- (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
14	root	1.158	- (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
15			is stupid.
16	root	1.159	- (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
17			- (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
18			not to get initialised properly.
19	root	1.158
20	root	1.157	3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
21	root	1.153	- (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
22	root	1.155	- (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
23	root	1.154	- reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
24	root	1.156	- max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
25			- document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
26	root	1.153
27	root	1.152	3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
28	root	1.150	- fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
29			- bring back working fchmod.
30	root	1.151	- nop and busy now set result to 0.
31			- set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
32	root	1.150
33	root	1.149	3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
34			- (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
35	root	1.148	- (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
36			- do not try to link against -lrt.
37	root	1.147	- use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
38
39	root	1.146	3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
40	root	1.145	- added bin/treescan to the distribution.
41			- switched to using libeio.
42			- LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
43			- remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
44			- max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
45			- poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
46	root	1.143
47	root	1.142	2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
48	root	1.141	- port to solaris perls configured for old posix
49			(analysed by Jost Krieger).
50	root	1.142	- keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
51			so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
52	root	1.141
53	root	1.140	2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
54	root	1.137	- fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
55			also display files given on the commandline.
56	root	1.140	- use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
57			and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
58	root	1.138	- do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
59			allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
60			use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
61	root	1.139	on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
62			and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
63	root	1.137
64	root	1.136	2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
65	root	1.134	- added aio_sync.
66	root	1.135	- added aio_pathsync.
67	root	1.136	- fix prototypes of (void) functions.
68	root	1.134
69	root	1.133	2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
70			- perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
71			aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
72			(see the manpage for details).
73			- discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
74			when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
75			- minor code cleanups.
76
77	root	1.132	2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
78	root	1.131	- replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
79			- aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
80			work sensibly for the very first time.
81
82	root	1.130	2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
83	root	1.129	- after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
84			stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
85			it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
86			behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
87
88	root	1.128	2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
89	root	1.127	- add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
90			successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
91	root	1.124	- allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
92			internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
93	root	1.126	- allow undef for length in aio_write.
94			- negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
95	root	1.124	- use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
96	root	1.125	have a larger range then.
97	root	1.120	- shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
98	root	1.127	- aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
99			- readahead emulation now returns something.
100	root	1.121	- correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
101			(should never happen, though).
102	root	1.127	- large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
103			but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
104			too many functions with crashing versions.
105	root	1.120
106	root	1.119	2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
107			- fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
108
109	root	1.118	2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
110	root	1.114	- added aio_rmtree.
111	root	1.115	- wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
112	root	1.116	- aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
113	root	1.117	- use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
114			(suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
115	root	1.118	- avoid installing autoconf.pm.
116	root	1.114
117	root	1.113	2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
118	root	1.112	- added aio_load.
119
120	root	1.111	2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
121			- fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
122			or crashes.
123
124	root	1.110	2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
125	root	1.108	- minor doc updates.
126	root	1.107	- minor cleanups.
127			- IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
128	root	1.109	- undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
129	root	1.107
130	root	1.103	2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
131	root	1.100	- minor doc updates.
132	root	1.101	- added aio_readlink.
133			- properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
134			- fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
135	root	1.104	- reduced size of aio request structure.
136	root	1.106	- better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
137	root	1.105	do not leak request in that case, either.
138	root	1.94
139	root	1.99	2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
140	root	1.98	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
141			IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
142	root	1.95	- fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
143			it would have to copy files manually.
144	root	1.98	- doc updates.
145	root	1.94	- start threads only on (very low) demand.
146	root	1.97	- end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
147	root	1.98	- add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
148	root	1.94	- some tuning applied to random places.
149	root	1.95	- add aio_mknod.
150	root	1.59
151	root	1.92	2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
152	root	1.90	- minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
153	root	1.86	- major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
154	root	1.68	- aio requests can be cancelled.
155	root	1.81	- callbacks can be (re-)set later.
156	root	1.93	- aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
157	root	1.83	- add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
158			into composite requests.
159			- generator interface for groups.
160	root	1.89	- add IO::AIO::poll_some.
161	root	1.72	- major documentation improvements.
162			- very minor bugfixes.
163	root	1.76	- add aio_nop for dummy requests.
164	root	1.84	- add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
165	root	1.79	- use "fast" mutexes on linux.
166	root	1.80	- use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
167			putting them onto the stack.
168			- optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
169			- better error checking when ENOMEM.
170	root	1.85	- hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
171	root	1.92	- warn about broken perl malloc.
172	root	1.88	- compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
173			which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
174			edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
175	root	1.68
176	root	1.67	1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
177	root	1.66	- add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
178
179	root	1.65	1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
180			- codename "jost"
181			- AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
182			for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
183			wcooley@nakedape.cc).
184	root	1.63
185	root	1.62	1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
186	root	1.61	- another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
187			twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
188
189	root	1.60	1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
190			- grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
191			in a runtime error.
192
193	root	1.59	1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
194	root	1.58	- aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
195	root	1.57	- added AnyEvent example.
196
197	root	1.55	1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
198	root	1.54	- no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
199	root	1.56	garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
200	root	1.54	(for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
201			libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
202			wasting memory).
203
204	root	1.53	1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
205			- added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
206	root	1.51	- added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
207			isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
208			support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
209			code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
210	root	1.46
211	root	1.44	1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
212	root	1.51	- create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
213	root	1.41	- somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
214	root	1.42	be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
215	root	1.43	- abort when the configure script fails.
216	root	1.41
217	root	1.40	1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
218	root	1.93	- forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
219	root	1.40	deadlocks.
220
221	root	1.39	1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
222	root	1.33	- properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
223			eating them.
224	root	1.38	- use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
225			invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
226	root	1.37	- fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
227			length after reading.
228			- fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
229			from the parent.
230			- make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
231			(but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
232			- the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
233	root	1.38	- aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
234			scalar for better error reporting.
235	root	1.33
236	root	1.32	1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
237			- verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
238	root	1.31	- use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You need to encode your strings to
239			the external filename encoding first.
240	root	1.32	- fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
241	root	1.31	- clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
242			with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
243			- fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
244			posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
245	root	1.32	- only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
246			- new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
247	root	1.31	- force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
248			error catching.
249	root	1.1
250	root	1.29	1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
251	root	1.25	- added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
252	root	1.27	(imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
253	root	1.23	feedback yet).
254	root	1.27	- emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
255			and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
256	root	1.19	- ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
257			from Linux::AIO.
258	root	1.18	- removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
259			compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
260	root	1.24	- try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
261	root	1.26	- cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
262			the fd to an fh.
263	root	1.28	- convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
264			do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
265			properly encode your pathnames.
266	root	1.18
267	root	1.17	1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
268			- aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
269	root	1.16	- all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
270			it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
271			- disable warnings in AIO.pm.
272
273	root	1.15	0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
274			- allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
275			- fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
276	root	1.14	- use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
277			from Linux::AIO.
278			(found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
279			does not implement pread/pwrite).
280			- only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
281
282	root	1.13	0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
283	root	1.12	- removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
284			need it anyway.
285			- link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
286			and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
287
288	root	1.11	0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
289	root	1.9	- added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
290	root	1.10	- make callback argument optional for all calls.
291	root	1.8
292	root	1.7	0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
293	root	1.5	- restructured manpage.
294	root	1.7	- added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
295			- remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
296			it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
297	root	1.5
298	root	1.4	0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
299	root	1.2	- return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
300			- get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
301	root	1.3	communications for most requests and responses.
302	root	1.2
303	root	1.1	0.1
304			- cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
305