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Revision: 1.308
Committed: Thu Oct 11 05:01:56 2012 UTC (11 years, 7 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_18
Changes since 1.307: +3 -0 lines
Log Message:
4.18

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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 1.308 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
14     - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
15    
16 root 1.307 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
17 root 1.304 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
18 root 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
19 root 1.305 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
20 root 1.307 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
21     as per unix spec.
22 root 1.303
23     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
24     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
25 root 1.306 it to malfunction for paths.
26 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
27 root 1.301 extents.
28     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
29     trash fiemap input arguments.
30     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
31     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
32 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
33     truncates segment count if a file.
34 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
35     to quick overview.
36 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
37 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
38 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
39 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
40 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
41 root 1.294
42 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
43     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
44 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
45 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
46     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
47     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
48     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
49 root 1.292
50 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
51     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
52     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
53 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
54 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
55     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
56 root 1.286
57 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
58     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
59     instead of -1.
60     - port to c89.
61    
62 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
63     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
64    
65 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
66 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
67 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
68 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
69 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
70 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
71 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
72     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
73     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
74     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
75     in aio_scandir and treescan.
76 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
77 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
78 root 1.272
79 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
80 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
81     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
82 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
83     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
84 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
85     a timeout occured at the same time.
86 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
87 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
88     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
89 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
90     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
91 root 1.263
92 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
93     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
94    
95 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
96     - ecb.h was missing.
97    
98 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
99 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
100     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
101     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
102 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
103 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
104 root 1.254 transferred...)
105 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
106 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
107 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
108     pthread and fork in perl.
109 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
110     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
111 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
112     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
113 root 1.252
114 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
115 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
116     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
117 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
118 root 1.251 flags.
119 root 1.238
120 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
121 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
122     - support a max_idle value of 0.
123 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
124 root 1.245
125     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
126 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
127 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
128 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
129 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
130 root 1.241
131 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
132     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
133     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
134 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
135     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
136     funcitonality. ugh.
137    
138 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
139     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
140     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
141     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
142     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
143     (openbsd 4.8).
144 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
145     had string-data.
146 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
147 root 1.228 them.
148 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
149 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
150     user-errors better.
151 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
152 root 1.228
153 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
154 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
155     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
156     Rasmus Andersson).
157 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
158     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
159     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
160     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
161     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
162 root 1.225
163 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
164 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
165     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
166     kernel sources.
167 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
168 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
169 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
170 root 1.218
171 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
172 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
173     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
174 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
175 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
176 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
177     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
178 root 1.214
179 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
180 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
181     - clarify cancel_subs description.
182 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
183     from the sendfile call.
184 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
185 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
186 root 1.209
187 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
188 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
189 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
190     hash lookups.
191 root 1.206
192 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
193 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
194     - use common schmorp.h header.
195     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
196 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
197 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
198 root 1.202
199 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
200 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
201 root 1.200
202 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
203 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
204     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
205     way. might help other os's too.
206 root 1.199
207 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
208 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
209 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
210     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
211     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
212     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
213     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
214 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
215 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
216     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
217     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
218     but should not have been.
219 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
220     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
221 root 1.194
222 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
223     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
224     rushed 3.22 release.
225    
226 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
227 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
228 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
229 root 1.191
230 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
231 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
232 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
233 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
234 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
235     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
236     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
237     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
238     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
239     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
240 root 1.187
241 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
242 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
243     not restore the file offset.
244 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
245     the names in various ways.
246 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
247     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
248     process. no more!
249     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
250    
251 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
252     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
253     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
254     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
255    
256 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
257 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
258 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
259 root 1.178
260 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
261 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
262 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
263 root 1.175
264 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
265 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
266     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
267    
268 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
269 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
270     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
271     has added something to the group or not.
272    
273 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
274 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
275     and decreased memory usage.
276 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
277 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
278 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
279 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
280     requiring a thread switch.
281 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
282 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
283    
284 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
285     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
286    
287 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
288 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
289 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
290     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
291 root 1.162
292 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
293 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
294 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
295 root 1.160
296 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
297     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
298 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
299     is stupid.
300 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
301     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
302     not to get initialised properly.
303 root 1.158
304 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
305 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
306 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
307 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
308 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
309     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
310 root 1.153
311 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
312 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
313     - bring back working fchmod.
314 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
315     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
316 root 1.150
317 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
318     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
319 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
320     - do not try to link against -lrt.
321 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
322    
323 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
324 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
325     - switched to using libeio.
326     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
327     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
328     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
329     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
330 root 1.143
331 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
332 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
333     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
334 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
335     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
336 root 1.141
337 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
338 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
339     also display files given on the commandline.
340 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
341     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
342 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
343     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
344     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
345 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
346     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
347 root 1.137
348 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
349 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
350 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
351 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
352 root 1.134
353 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
354     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
355     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
356     (see the manpage for details).
357     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
358     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
359     - minor code cleanups.
360    
361 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
362 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
363     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
364     work sensibly for the very first time.
365    
366 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
367 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
368     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
369     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
370     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
371    
372 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
373 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
374     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
375 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
376     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
377 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
378     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
379 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
380 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
381 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
382 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
383     - readahead emulation now returns something.
384 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
385     (should never happen, though).
386 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
387     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
388     too many functions with crashing versions.
389 root 1.120
390 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
391     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
392    
393 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
394 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
395 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
396 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
397 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
398     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
399 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
400 root 1.114
401 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
402 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
403    
404 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
405     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
406     or crashes.
407    
408 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
409 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
410 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
411     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
412 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
413 root 1.107
414 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
415 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
416 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
417     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
418     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
419 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
420 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
421 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
422 root 1.94
423 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
424 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
425     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
426 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
427     it would have to copy files manually.
428 root 1.98 - doc updates.
429 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
430 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
431 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
432 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
433 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
434 root 1.59
435 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
436 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
437 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
438 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
439 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
440 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
441 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
442     into composite requests.
443     - generator interface for groups.
444 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
445 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
446     - very minor bugfixes.
447 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
448 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
449 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
450 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
451     putting them onto the stack.
452     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
453     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
454 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
455 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
456 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
457     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
458     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
459 root 1.68
460 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
461 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
462    
463 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
464     - codename "jost"
465     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
466     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
467     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
468 root 1.63
469 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
470 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
471     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
472    
473 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
474     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
475     in a runtime error.
476    
477 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
478 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
479 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
480    
481 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
482 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
483 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
484 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
485     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
486     wasting memory).
487    
488 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
489     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
490 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
491     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
492     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
493     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
494 root 1.46
495 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
496 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
497 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
498 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
499 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
500 root 1.41
501 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
502 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
503 root 1.40 deadlocks.
504    
505 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
506 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
507     eating them.
508 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
509     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
510 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
511     length after reading.
512     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
513     from the parent.
514     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
515     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
516     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
517 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
518     scalar for better error reporting.
519 root 1.33
520 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
521     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
522 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
523     the external filename encoding first.
524 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
525 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
526     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
527     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
528     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
529 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
530     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
531 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
532     error catching.
533 root 1.1
534 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
535 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
536 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
537 root 1.23 feedback yet).
538 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
539     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
540 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
541     from Linux::AIO.
542 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
543     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
544 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
545 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
546     the fd to an fh.
547 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
548     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
549     properly encode your pathnames.
550 root 1.18
551 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
552     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
553 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
554     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
555     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
556    
557 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
558     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
559     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
560 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
561     from Linux::AIO.
562     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
563     does not implement pread/pwrite).
564     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
565    
566 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
567 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
568     need it anyway.
569     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
570     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
571    
572 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
573 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
574 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
575 root 1.8
576 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
577 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
578 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
579     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
580     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
581 root 1.5
582 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
583 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
584     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
585 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
586 root 1.2
587 root 1.1 0.1
588     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
589