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Revision: 1.307
Committed: Thu Oct 11 03:20:52 2012 UTC (11 years, 8 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_17
Changes since 1.306: +3 -0 lines
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# User Rev Content
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 1.307 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
14 root 1.304 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
15 root 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
16 root 1.305 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
17 root 1.307 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
18     as per unix spec.
19 root 1.303
20     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
21     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
22 root 1.306 it to malfunction for paths.
23 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
24 root 1.301 extents.
25     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
26     trash fiemap input arguments.
27     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
28     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
29 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
30     truncates segment count if a file.
31 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
32     to quick overview.
33 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
34 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
35 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
36 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
37 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
38 root 1.294
39 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
40     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
41 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
42 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
43     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
44     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
45     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
46 root 1.292
47 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
48     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
49     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
50 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
51 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
52     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
53 root 1.286
54 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
55     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
56     instead of -1.
57     - port to c89.
58    
59 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
60     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
61    
62 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
63 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
64 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
65 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
66 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
67 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
68 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
69     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
70     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
71     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
72     in aio_scandir and treescan.
73 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
74 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
75 root 1.272
76 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
77 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
78     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
79 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
80     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
81 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
82     a timeout occured at the same time.
83 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
84 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
85     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
86 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
87     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
88 root 1.263
89 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
90     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
91    
92 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
93     - ecb.h was missing.
94    
95 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
96 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
97     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
98     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
99 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
100 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
101 root 1.254 transferred...)
102 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
103 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
104 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
105     pthread and fork in perl.
106 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
107     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
108 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
109     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
110 root 1.252
111 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
112 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
113     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
114 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
115 root 1.251 flags.
116 root 1.238
117 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
118 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
119     - support a max_idle value of 0.
120 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
121 root 1.245
122     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
123 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
124 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
125 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
126 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
127 root 1.241
128 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
129     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
130     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
131 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
132     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
133     funcitonality. ugh.
134    
135 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
136     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
137     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
138     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
139     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
140     (openbsd 4.8).
141 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
142     had string-data.
143 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
144 root 1.228 them.
145 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
146 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
147     user-errors better.
148 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
149 root 1.228
150 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
151 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
152     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
153     Rasmus Andersson).
154 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
155     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
156     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
157     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
158     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
159 root 1.225
160 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
161 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
162     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
163     kernel sources.
164 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
165 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
166 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
167 root 1.218
168 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
169 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
170     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
171 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
172 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
173 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
174     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
175 root 1.214
176 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
177 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
178     - clarify cancel_subs description.
179 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
180     from the sendfile call.
181 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
182 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
183 root 1.209
184 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
185 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
186 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
187     hash lookups.
188 root 1.206
189 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
190 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
191     - use common schmorp.h header.
192     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
193 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
194 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
195 root 1.202
196 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
197 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
198 root 1.200
199 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
200 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
201     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
202     way. might help other os's too.
203 root 1.199
204 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
205 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
206 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
207     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
208     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
209     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
210     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
211 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
212 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
213     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
214     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
215     but should not have been.
216 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
217     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
218 root 1.194
219 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
220     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
221     rushed 3.22 release.
222    
223 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
224 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
225 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
226 root 1.191
227 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
228 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
229 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
230 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
231 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
232     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
233     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
234     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
235     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
236     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
237 root 1.187
238 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
239 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
240     not restore the file offset.
241 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
242     the names in various ways.
243 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
244     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
245     process. no more!
246     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
247    
248 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
249     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
250     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
251     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
252    
253 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
254 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
255 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
256 root 1.178
257 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
258 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
259 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
260 root 1.175
261 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
262 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
263     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
264    
265 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
266 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
267     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
268     has added something to the group or not.
269    
270 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
271 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
272     and decreased memory usage.
273 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
274 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
275 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
276 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
277     requiring a thread switch.
278 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
279 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
280    
281 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
282     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
283    
284 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
285 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
286 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
287     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
288 root 1.162
289 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
290 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
291 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
292 root 1.160
293 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
294     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
295 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
296     is stupid.
297 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
298     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
299     not to get initialised properly.
300 root 1.158
301 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
302 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
303 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
304 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
305 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
306     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
307 root 1.153
308 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
309 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
310     - bring back working fchmod.
311 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
312     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
313 root 1.150
314 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
315     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
316 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
317     - do not try to link against -lrt.
318 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
319    
320 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
321 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
322     - switched to using libeio.
323     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
324     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
325     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
326     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
327 root 1.143
328 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
329 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
330     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
331 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
332     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
333 root 1.141
334 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
335 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
336     also display files given on the commandline.
337 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
338     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
339 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
340     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
341     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
342 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
343     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
344 root 1.137
345 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
346 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
347 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
348 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
349 root 1.134
350 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
351     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
352     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
353     (see the manpage for details).
354     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
355     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
356     - minor code cleanups.
357    
358 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
359 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
360     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
361     work sensibly for the very first time.
362    
363 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
364 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
365     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
366     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
367     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
368    
369 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
370 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
371     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
372 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
373     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
374 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
375     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
376 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
377 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
378 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
379 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
380     - readahead emulation now returns something.
381 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
382     (should never happen, though).
383 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
384     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
385     too many functions with crashing versions.
386 root 1.120
387 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
388     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
389    
390 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
391 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
392 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
393 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
394 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
395     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
396 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
397 root 1.114
398 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
399 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
400    
401 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
402     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
403     or crashes.
404    
405 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
406 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
407 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
408     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
409 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
410 root 1.107
411 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
412 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
413 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
414     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
415     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
416 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
417 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
418 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
419 root 1.94
420 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
421 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
422     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
423 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
424     it would have to copy files manually.
425 root 1.98 - doc updates.
426 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
427 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
428 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
429 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
430 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
431 root 1.59
432 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
433 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
434 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
435 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
436 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
437 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
438 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
439     into composite requests.
440     - generator interface for groups.
441 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
442 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
443     - very minor bugfixes.
444 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
445 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
446 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
447 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
448     putting them onto the stack.
449     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
450     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
451 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
452 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
453 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
454     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
455     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
456 root 1.68
457 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
458 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
459    
460 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
461     - codename "jost"
462     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
463     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
464     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
465 root 1.63
466 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
467 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
468     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
469    
470 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
471     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
472     in a runtime error.
473    
474 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
475 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
476 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
477    
478 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
479 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
480 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
481 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
482     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
483     wasting memory).
484    
485 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
486     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
487 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
488     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
489     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
490     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
491 root 1.46
492 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
493 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
494 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
495 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
496 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
497 root 1.41
498 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
499 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
500 root 1.40 deadlocks.
501    
502 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
503 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
504     eating them.
505 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
506     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
507 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
508     length after reading.
509     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
510     from the parent.
511     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
512     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
513     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
514 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
515     scalar for better error reporting.
516 root 1.33
517 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
518     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
519 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
520     the external filename encoding first.
521 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
522 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
523     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
524     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
525     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
526 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
527     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
528 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
529     error catching.
530 root 1.1
531 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
532 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
533 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
534 root 1.23 feedback yet).
535 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
536     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
537 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
538     from Linux::AIO.
539 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
540     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
541 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
542 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
543     the fd to an fh.
544 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
545     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
546     properly encode your pathnames.
547 root 1.18
548 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
549     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
550 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
551     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
552     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
553    
554 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
555     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
556     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
557 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
558     from Linux::AIO.
559     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
560     does not implement pread/pwrite).
561     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
562    
563 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
564 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
565     need it anyway.
566     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
567     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
568    
569 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
570 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
571 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
572 root 1.8
573 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
574 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
575 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
576     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
577     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
578 root 1.5
579 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
580 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
581     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
582 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
583 root 1.2
584 root 1.1 0.1
585     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
586