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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 1.304 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
14 root 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
15 root 1.305 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
16 root 1.303
17     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
18     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
19     it to malfunctiobn for paths.
20 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
21 root 1.301 extents.
22     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
23     trash fiemap input arguments.
24     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
25     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
26 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
27     truncates segment count if a file.
28 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
29     to quick overview.
30 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
31 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
32 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
33 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
34 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
35 root 1.294
36 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
37     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
38 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
39 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
40     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
41     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
42     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
43 root 1.292
44 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
45     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
46     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
47 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
48 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
49     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
50 root 1.286
51 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
52     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
53     instead of -1.
54     - port to c89.
55    
56 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
57     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
58    
59 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
60 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
61 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
62 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
63 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
64 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
65 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
66     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
67     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
68     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
69     in aio_scandir and treescan.
70 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
71 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
72 root 1.272
73 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
74 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
75     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
76 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
77     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
78 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
79     a timeout occured at the same time.
80 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
81 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
82     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
83 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
84     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
85 root 1.263
86 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
87     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
88    
89 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
90     - ecb.h was missing.
91    
92 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
93 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
94     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
95     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
96 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
97 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
98 root 1.254 transferred...)
99 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
100 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
101 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
102     pthread and fork in perl.
103 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
104     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
105 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
106     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
107 root 1.252
108 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
109 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
110     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
111 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
112 root 1.251 flags.
113 root 1.238
114 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
115 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
116     - support a max_idle value of 0.
117 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
118 root 1.245
119     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
120 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
121 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
122 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
123 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
124 root 1.241
125 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
126     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
127     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
128 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
129     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
130     funcitonality. ugh.
131    
132 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
133     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
134     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
135     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
136     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
137     (openbsd 4.8).
138 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
139     had string-data.
140 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
141 root 1.228 them.
142 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
143 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
144     user-errors better.
145 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
146 root 1.228
147 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
148 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
149     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
150     Rasmus Andersson).
151 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
152     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
153     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
154     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
155     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
156 root 1.225
157 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
158 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
159     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
160     kernel sources.
161 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
162 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
163 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
164 root 1.218
165 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
166 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
167     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
168 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
169 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
170 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
171     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
172 root 1.214
173 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
174 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
175     - clarify cancel_subs description.
176 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
177     from the sendfile call.
178 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
179 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
180 root 1.209
181 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
182 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
183 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
184     hash lookups.
185 root 1.206
186 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
187 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
188     - use common schmorp.h header.
189     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
190 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
191 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
192 root 1.202
193 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
194 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
195 root 1.200
196 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
197 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
198     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
199     way. might help other os's too.
200 root 1.199
201 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
202 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
203 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
204     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
205     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
206     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
207     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
208 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
209 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
210     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
211     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
212     but should not have been.
213 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
214     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
215 root 1.194
216 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
217     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
218     rushed 3.22 release.
219    
220 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
221 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
222 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
223 root 1.191
224 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
225 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
226 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
227 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
228 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
229     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
230     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
231     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
232     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
233     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
234 root 1.187
235 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
236 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
237     not restore the file offset.
238 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
239     the names in various ways.
240 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
241     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
242     process. no more!
243     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
244    
245 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
246     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
247     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
248     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
249    
250 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
251 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
252 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
253 root 1.178
254 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
255 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
256 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
257 root 1.175
258 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
259 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
260     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
261    
262 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
263 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
264     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
265     has added something to the group or not.
266    
267 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
268 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
269     and decreased memory usage.
270 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
271 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
272 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
273 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
274     requiring a thread switch.
275 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
276 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
277    
278 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
279     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
280    
281 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
282 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
283 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
284     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
285 root 1.162
286 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
287 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
288 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
289 root 1.160
290 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
291     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
292 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
293     is stupid.
294 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
295     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
296     not to get initialised properly.
297 root 1.158
298 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
299 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
300 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
301 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
302 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
303     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
304 root 1.153
305 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
306 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
307     - bring back working fchmod.
308 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
309     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
310 root 1.150
311 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
312     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
313 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
314     - do not try to link against -lrt.
315 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
316    
317 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
318 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
319     - switched to using libeio.
320     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
321     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
322     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
323     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
324 root 1.143
325 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
326 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
327     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
328 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
329     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
330 root 1.141
331 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
332 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
333     also display files given on the commandline.
334 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
335     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
336 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
337     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
338     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
339 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
340     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
341 root 1.137
342 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
343 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
344 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
345 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
346 root 1.134
347 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
348     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
349     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
350     (see the manpage for details).
351     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
352     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
353     - minor code cleanups.
354    
355 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
356 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
357     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
358     work sensibly for the very first time.
359    
360 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
361 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
362     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
363     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
364     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
365    
366 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
367 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
368     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
369 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
370     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
371 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
372     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
373 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
374 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
375 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
376 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
377     - readahead emulation now returns something.
378 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
379     (should never happen, though).
380 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
381     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
382     too many functions with crashing versions.
383 root 1.120
384 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
385     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
386    
387 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
388 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
389 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
390 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
391 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
392     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
393 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
394 root 1.114
395 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
396 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
397    
398 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
399     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
400     or crashes.
401    
402 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
403 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
404 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
405     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
406 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
407 root 1.107
408 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
409 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
410 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
411     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
412     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
413 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
414 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
415 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
416 root 1.94
417 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
418 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
419     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
420 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
421     it would have to copy files manually.
422 root 1.98 - doc updates.
423 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
424 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
425 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
426 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
427 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
428 root 1.59
429 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
430 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
431 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
432 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
433 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
434 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
435 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
436     into composite requests.
437     - generator interface for groups.
438 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
439 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
440     - very minor bugfixes.
441 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
442 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
443 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
444 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
445     putting them onto the stack.
446     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
447     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
448 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
449 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
450 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
451     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
452     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
453 root 1.68
454 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
455 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
456    
457 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
458     - codename "jost"
459     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
460     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
461     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
462 root 1.63
463 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
464 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
465     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
466    
467 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
468     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
469     in a runtime error.
470    
471 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
472 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
473 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
474    
475 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
476 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
477 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
478 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
479     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
480     wasting memory).
481    
482 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
483     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
484 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
485     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
486     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
487     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
488 root 1.46
489 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
490 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
491 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
492 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
493 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
494 root 1.41
495 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
496 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
497 root 1.40 deadlocks.
498    
499 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
500 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
501     eating them.
502 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
503     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
504 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
505     length after reading.
506     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
507     from the parent.
508     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
509     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
510     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
511 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
512     scalar for better error reporting.
513 root 1.33
514 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
515     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
516 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
517     the external filename encoding first.
518 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
519 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
520     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
521     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
522     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
523 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
524     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
525 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
526     error catching.
527 root 1.1
528 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
529 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
530 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
531 root 1.23 feedback yet).
532 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
533     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
534 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
535     from Linux::AIO.
536 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
537     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
538 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
539 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
540     the fd to an fh.
541 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
542     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
543     properly encode your pathnames.
544 root 1.18
545 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
546     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
547 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
548     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
549     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
550    
551 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
552     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
553     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
554 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
555     from Linux::AIO.
556     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
557     does not implement pread/pwrite).
558     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
559    
560 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
561 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
562     need it anyway.
563     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
564     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
565    
566 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
567 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
568 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
569 root 1.8
570 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
571 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
572 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
573     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
574     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
575 root 1.5
576 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
577 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
578     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
579 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
580 root 1.2
581 root 1.1 0.1
582     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
583