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1 root 1.31 Revision history for IO::AIO
2 root 1.30
3 root 1.114 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
4 root 1.106 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
5 root 1.293 TODO: vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
6 root 1.136 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
7 root 1.223 TODO: aio_mincore?
8 root 1.255 TODO: getxattr etc.?
9 root 1.275 TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
10 root 1.293 TODO: emulation for splice?
11 root 1.297 TODO: eio_mmap|mlock|munmap|splice...
12 root 1.260
13 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
14     to quick overview.
15 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
16 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
17 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
18 root 1.298 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE.
19 root 1.294
20 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
21     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
22 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
23 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
24     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
25     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
26     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
27 root 1.292
28 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
29     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
30     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
31 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
32 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
33     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
34 root 1.286
35 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
36     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
37     instead of -1.
38     - port to c89.
39    
40 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
41     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
42    
43 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
44 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
45 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
46 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
47 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
48 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
49 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
50     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
51     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
52     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
53     in aio_scandir and treescan.
54 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
55 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
56 root 1.272
57 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
58 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
59     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
60 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
61     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
62 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
63     a timeout occured at the same time.
64 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
65 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
66     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
67 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
68     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
69 root 1.263
70 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
71     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
72    
73 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
74     - ecb.h was missing.
75    
76 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
77 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
78     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
79     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
80 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
81 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
82 root 1.254 transferred...)
83 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
84 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
85 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
86     pthread and fork in perl.
87 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
88     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
89 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
90     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
91 root 1.252
92 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
93 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
94     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
95 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
96 root 1.251 flags.
97 root 1.238
98 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
99 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
100     - support a max_idle value of 0.
101 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
102 root 1.245
103     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
104 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
105 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
106 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
107 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
108 root 1.241
109 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
110     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
111     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
112 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
113     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
114     funcitonality. ugh.
115    
116 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
117     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
118     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
119     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
120     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
121     (openbsd 4.8).
122 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
123     had string-data.
124 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
125 root 1.228 them.
126 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
127 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
128     user-errors better.
129 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
130 root 1.228
131 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
132 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
133     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
134     Rasmus Andersson).
135 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
136     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
137     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
138     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
139     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
140 root 1.225
141 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
142 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
143     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
144     kernel sources.
145 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
146 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
147 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
148 root 1.218
149 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
150 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
151     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
152 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
153 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
154 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
155     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
156 root 1.214
157 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
158 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
159     - clarify cancel_subs description.
160 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
161     from the sendfile call.
162 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
163 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
164 root 1.209
165 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
166 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
167 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
168     hash lookups.
169 root 1.206
170 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
171 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
172     - use common schmorp.h header.
173     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
174 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
175 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
176 root 1.202
177 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
178 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
179 root 1.200
180 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
181 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
182     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
183     way. might help other os's too.
184 root 1.199
185 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
186 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
187 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
188     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
189     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
190     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
191     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
192 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
193 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
194     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
195     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
196     but should not have been.
197 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
198     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
199 root 1.194
200 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
201     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
202     rushed 3.22 release.
203    
204 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
205 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
206 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
207 root 1.191
208 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
209 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
210 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
211 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
212 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
213     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
214     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
215     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
216     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
217     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
218 root 1.187
219 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
220 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
221     not restore the file offset.
222 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
223     the names in various ways.
224 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
225     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
226     process. no more!
227     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
228    
229 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
230     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
231     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
232     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
233    
234 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
235 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
236 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
237 root 1.178
238 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
239 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
240 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
241 root 1.175
242 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
243 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
244     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
245    
246 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
247 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
248     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
249     has added something to the group or not.
250    
251 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
252 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
253     and decreased memory usage.
254 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
255 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
256 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
257 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
258     requiring a thread switch.
259 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
260 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
261    
262 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
263     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
264    
265 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
266 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
267 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
268     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
269 root 1.162
270 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
271 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
272 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
273 root 1.160
274 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
275     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
276 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
277     is stupid.
278 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
279     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
280     not to get initialised properly.
281 root 1.158
282 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
283 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
284 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
285 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
286 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
287     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
288 root 1.153
289 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
290 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
291     - bring back working fchmod.
292 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
293     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
294 root 1.150
295 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
296     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
297 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
298     - do not try to link against -lrt.
299 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
300    
301 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
302 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
303     - switched to using libeio.
304     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
305     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
306     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
307     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
308 root 1.143
309 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
310 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
311     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
312 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
313     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
314 root 1.141
315 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
316 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
317     also display files given on the commandline.
318 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
319     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
320 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
321     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
322     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
323 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
324     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
325 root 1.137
326 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
327 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
328 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
329 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
330 root 1.134
331 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
332     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
333     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
334     (see the manpage for details).
335     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
336     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
337     - minor code cleanups.
338    
339 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
340 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
341     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
342     work sensibly for the very first time.
343    
344 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
345 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
346     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
347     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
348     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
349    
350 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
351 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
352     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
353 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
354     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
355 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
356     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
357 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
358 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
359 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
360 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
361     - readahead emulation now returns something.
362 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
363     (should never happen, though).
364 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
365     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
366     too many functions with crashing versions.
367 root 1.120
368 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
369     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
370    
371 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
372 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
373 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
374 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
375 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
376     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
377 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
378 root 1.114
379 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
380 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
381    
382 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
383     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
384     or crashes.
385    
386 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
387 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
388 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
389     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
390 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
391 root 1.107
392 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
393 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
394 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
395     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
396     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
397 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
398 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
399 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
400 root 1.94
401 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
402 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
403     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
404 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
405     it would have to copy files manually.
406 root 1.98 - doc updates.
407 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
408 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
409 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
410 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
411 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
412 root 1.59
413 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
414 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
415 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
416 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
417 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
418 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
419 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
420     into composite requests.
421     - generator interface for groups.
422 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
423 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
424     - very minor bugfixes.
425 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
426 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
427 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
428 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
429     putting them onto the stack.
430     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
431     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
432 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
433 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
434 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
435     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
436     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
437 root 1.68
438 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
439 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
440    
441 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
442     - codename "jost"
443     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
444     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
445     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
446 root 1.63
447 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
448 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
449     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
450    
451 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
452     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
453     in a runtime error.
454    
455 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
456 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
457 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
458    
459 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
460 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
461 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
462 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
463     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
464     wasting memory).
465    
466 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
467     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
468 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
469     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
470     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
471     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
472 root 1.46
473 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
474 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
475 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
476 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
477 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
478 root 1.41
479 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
480 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
481 root 1.40 deadlocks.
482    
483 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
484 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
485     eating them.
486 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
487     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
488 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
489     length after reading.
490     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
491     from the parent.
492     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
493     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
494     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
495 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
496     scalar for better error reporting.
497 root 1.33
498 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
499     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
500 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
501     the external filename encoding first.
502 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
503 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
504     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
505     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
506     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
507 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
508     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
509 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
510     error catching.
511 root 1.1
512 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
513 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
514 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
515 root 1.23 feedback yet).
516 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
517     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
518 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
519     from Linux::AIO.
520 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
521     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
522 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
523 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
524     the fd to an fh.
525 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
526     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
527     properly encode your pathnames.
528 root 1.18
529 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
530     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
531 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
532     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
533     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
534    
535 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
536     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
537     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
538 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
539     from Linux::AIO.
540     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
541     does not implement pread/pwrite).
542     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
543    
544 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
545 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
546     need it anyway.
547     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
548     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
549    
550 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
551 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
552 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
553 root 1.8
554 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
555 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
556 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
557     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
558     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
559 root 1.5
560 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
561 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
562     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
563 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
564 root 1.2
565 root 1.1 0.1
566     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
567