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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 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
14    
15     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
16     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
17     it to malfunctiobn for paths.
18 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
19 root 1.301 extents.
20     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
21     trash fiemap input arguments.
22     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
23     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
24 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
25     truncates segment count if a file.
26 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
27     to quick overview.
28 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
29 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
30 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
31 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
32 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
33 root 1.294
34 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
35     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
36 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
37 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
38     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
39     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
40     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
41 root 1.292
42 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
43     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
44     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
45 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
46 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
47     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
48 root 1.286
49 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
50     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
51     instead of -1.
52     - port to c89.
53    
54 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
55     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
56    
57 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
58 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
59 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
60 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
61 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
62 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
63 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
64     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
65     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
66     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
67     in aio_scandir and treescan.
68 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
69 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
70 root 1.272
71 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
72 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
73     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
74 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
75     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
76 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
77     a timeout occured at the same time.
78 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
79 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
80     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
81 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
82     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
83 root 1.263
84 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
85     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
86    
87 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
88     - ecb.h was missing.
89    
90 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
91 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
92     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
93     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
94 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
95 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
96 root 1.254 transferred...)
97 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
98 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
99 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
100     pthread and fork in perl.
101 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
102     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
103 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
104     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
105 root 1.252
106 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
107 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
108     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
109 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
110 root 1.251 flags.
111 root 1.238
112 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
113 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
114     - support a max_idle value of 0.
115 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
116 root 1.245
117     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
118 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
119 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
120 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
121 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
122 root 1.241
123 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
124     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
125     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
126 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
127     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
128     funcitonality. ugh.
129    
130 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
131     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
132     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
133     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
134     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
135     (openbsd 4.8).
136 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
137     had string-data.
138 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
139 root 1.228 them.
140 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
141 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
142     user-errors better.
143 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
144 root 1.228
145 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
146 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
147     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
148     Rasmus Andersson).
149 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
150     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
151     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
152     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
153     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
154 root 1.225
155 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
156 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
157     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
158     kernel sources.
159 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
160 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
161 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
162 root 1.218
163 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
164 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
165     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
166 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
167 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
168 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
169     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
170 root 1.214
171 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
172 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
173     - clarify cancel_subs description.
174 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
175     from the sendfile call.
176 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
177 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
178 root 1.209
179 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
180 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
181 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
182     hash lookups.
183 root 1.206
184 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
185 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
186     - use common schmorp.h header.
187     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
188 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
189 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
190 root 1.202
191 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
192 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
193 root 1.200
194 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
195 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
196     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
197     way. might help other os's too.
198 root 1.199
199 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
200 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
201 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
202     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
203     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
204     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
205     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
206 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
207 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
208     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
209     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
210     but should not have been.
211 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
212     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
213 root 1.194
214 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
215     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
216     rushed 3.22 release.
217    
218 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
219 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
220 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
221 root 1.191
222 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
223 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
224 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
225 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
226 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
227     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
228     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
229     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
230     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
231     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
232 root 1.187
233 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
234 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
235     not restore the file offset.
236 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
237     the names in various ways.
238 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
239     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
240     process. no more!
241     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
242    
243 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
244     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
245     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
246     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
247    
248 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
249 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
250 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
251 root 1.178
252 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
253 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
254 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
255 root 1.175
256 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
257 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
258     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
259    
260 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
261 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
262     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
263     has added something to the group or not.
264    
265 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
266 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
267     and decreased memory usage.
268 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
269 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
270 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
271 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
272     requiring a thread switch.
273 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
274 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
275    
276 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
277     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
278    
279 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
280 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
281 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
282     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
283 root 1.162
284 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
285 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
286 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
287 root 1.160
288 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
289     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
290 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
291     is stupid.
292 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
293     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
294     not to get initialised properly.
295 root 1.158
296 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
297 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
298 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
299 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
300 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
301     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
302 root 1.153
303 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
304 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
305     - bring back working fchmod.
306 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
307     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
308 root 1.150
309 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
310     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
311 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
312     - do not try to link against -lrt.
313 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
314    
315 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
316 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
317     - switched to using libeio.
318     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
319     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
320     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
321     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
322 root 1.143
323 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
324 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
325     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
326 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
327     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
328 root 1.141
329 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
330 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
331     also display files given on the commandline.
332 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
333     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
334 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
335     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
336     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
337 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
338     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
339 root 1.137
340 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
341 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
342 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
343 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
344 root 1.134
345 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
346     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
347     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
348     (see the manpage for details).
349     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
350     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
351     - minor code cleanups.
352    
353 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
354 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
355     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
356     work sensibly for the very first time.
357    
358 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
359 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
360     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
361     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
362     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
363    
364 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
365 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
366     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
367 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
368     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
369 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
370     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
371 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
372 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
373 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
374 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
375     - readahead emulation now returns something.
376 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
377     (should never happen, though).
378 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
379     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
380     too many functions with crashing versions.
381 root 1.120
382 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
383     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
384    
385 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
386 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
387 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
388 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
389 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
390     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
391 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
392 root 1.114
393 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
394 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
395    
396 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
397     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
398     or crashes.
399    
400 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
401 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
402 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
403     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
404 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
405 root 1.107
406 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
407 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
408 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
409     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
410     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
411 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
412 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
413 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
414 root 1.94
415 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
416 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
417     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
418 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
419     it would have to copy files manually.
420 root 1.98 - doc updates.
421 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
422 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
423 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
424 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
425 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
426 root 1.59
427 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
428 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
429 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
430 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
431 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
432 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
433 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
434     into composite requests.
435     - generator interface for groups.
436 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
437 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
438     - very minor bugfixes.
439 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
440 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
441 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
442 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
443     putting them onto the stack.
444     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
445     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
446 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
447 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
448 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
449     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
450     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
451 root 1.68
452 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
453 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
454    
455 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
456     - codename "jost"
457     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
458     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
459     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
460 root 1.63
461 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
462 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
463     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
464    
465 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
466     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
467     in a runtime error.
468    
469 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
470 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
471 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
472    
473 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
474 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
475 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
476 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
477     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
478     wasting memory).
479    
480 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
481     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
482 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
483     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
484     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
485     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
486 root 1.46
487 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
488 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
489 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
490 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
491 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
492 root 1.41
493 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
494 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
495 root 1.40 deadlocks.
496    
497 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
498 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
499     eating them.
500 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
501     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
502 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
503     length after reading.
504     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
505     from the parent.
506     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
507     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
508     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
509 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
510     scalar for better error reporting.
511 root 1.33
512 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
513     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
514 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
515     the external filename encoding first.
516 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
517 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
518     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
519     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
520     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
521 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
522     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
523 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
524     error catching.
525 root 1.1
526 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
527 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
528 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
529 root 1.23 feedback yet).
530 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
531     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
532 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
533     from Linux::AIO.
534 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
535     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
536 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
537 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
538     the fd to an fh.
539 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
540     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
541     properly encode your pathnames.
542 root 1.18
543 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
544     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
545 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
546     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
547     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
548    
549 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
550     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
551     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
552 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
553     from Linux::AIO.
554     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
555     does not implement pread/pwrite).
556     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
557    
558 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
559 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
560     need it anyway.
561     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
562     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
563    
564 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
565 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
566 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
567 root 1.8
568 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
569 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
570 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
571     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
572     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
573 root 1.5
574 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
575 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
576     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
577 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
578 root 1.2
579 root 1.1 0.1
580     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
581