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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 1.309 - in aio_rename and aio_rmdir, specialcase the case of [$wd, "."]
14     and call rename/rmdir instead of renameat/unlinkat.
15    
16 root 1.308 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
17     - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
18    
19 root 1.307 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
20 root 1.304 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
21 root 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
22 root 1.305 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
23 root 1.307 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
24     as per unix spec.
25 root 1.303
26     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
27     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
28 root 1.306 it to malfunction for paths.
29 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
30 root 1.301 extents.
31     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
32     trash fiemap input arguments.
33     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
34     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
35 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
36     truncates segment count if a file.
37 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
38     to quick overview.
39 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
40 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
41 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
42 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
43 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
44 root 1.294
45 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
46     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
47 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
48 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
49     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
50     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
51     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
52 root 1.292
53 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
54     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
55     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
56 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
57 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
58     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
59 root 1.286
60 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
61     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
62     instead of -1.
63     - port to c89.
64    
65 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
66     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
67    
68 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
69 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
70 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
71 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
72 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
73 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
74 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
75     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
76     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
77     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
78     in aio_scandir and treescan.
79 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
80 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
81 root 1.272
82 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
83 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
84     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
85 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
86     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
87 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
88     a timeout occured at the same time.
89 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
90 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
91     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
92 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
93     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
94 root 1.263
95 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
96     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
97    
98 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
99     - ecb.h was missing.
100    
101 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
102 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
103     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
104     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
105 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
106 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
107 root 1.254 transferred...)
108 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
109 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
110 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
111     pthread and fork in perl.
112 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
113     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
114 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
115     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
116 root 1.252
117 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
118 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
119     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
120 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
121 root 1.251 flags.
122 root 1.238
123 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
124 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
125     - support a max_idle value of 0.
126 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
127 root 1.245
128     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
129 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
130 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
131 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
132 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
133 root 1.241
134 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
135     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
136     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
137 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
138     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
139     funcitonality. ugh.
140    
141 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
142     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
143     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
144     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
145     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
146     (openbsd 4.8).
147 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
148     had string-data.
149 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
150 root 1.228 them.
151 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
152 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
153     user-errors better.
154 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
155 root 1.228
156 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
157 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
158     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
159     Rasmus Andersson).
160 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
161     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
162     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
163     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
164     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
165 root 1.225
166 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
167 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
168     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
169     kernel sources.
170 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
171 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
172 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
173 root 1.218
174 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
175 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
176     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
177 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
178 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
179 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
180     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
181 root 1.214
182 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
183 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
184     - clarify cancel_subs description.
185 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
186     from the sendfile call.
187 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
188 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
189 root 1.209
190 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
191 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
192 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
193     hash lookups.
194 root 1.206
195 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
196 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
197     - use common schmorp.h header.
198     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
199 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
200 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
201 root 1.202
202 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
203 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
204 root 1.200
205 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
206 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
207     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
208     way. might help other os's too.
209 root 1.199
210 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
211 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
212 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
213     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
214     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
215     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
216     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
217 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
218 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
219     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
220     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
221     but should not have been.
222 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
223     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
224 root 1.194
225 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
226     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
227     rushed 3.22 release.
228    
229 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
230 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
231 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
232 root 1.191
233 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
234 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
235 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
236 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
237 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
238     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
239     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
240     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
241     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
242     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
243 root 1.187
244 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
245 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
246     not restore the file offset.
247 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
248     the names in various ways.
249 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
250     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
251     process. no more!
252     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
253    
254 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
255     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
256     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
257     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
258    
259 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
260 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
261 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
262 root 1.178
263 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
264 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
265 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
266 root 1.175
267 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
268 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
269     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
270    
271 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
272 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
273     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
274     has added something to the group or not.
275    
276 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
277 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
278     and decreased memory usage.
279 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
280 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
281 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
282 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
283     requiring a thread switch.
284 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
285 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
286    
287 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
288     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
289    
290 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
291 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
292 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
293     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
294 root 1.162
295 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
296 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
297 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
298 root 1.160
299 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
300     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
301 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
302     is stupid.
303 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
304     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
305     not to get initialised properly.
306 root 1.158
307 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
308 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
309 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
310 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
311 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
312     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
313 root 1.153
314 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
315 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
316     - bring back working fchmod.
317 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
318     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
319 root 1.150
320 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
321     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
322 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
323     - do not try to link against -lrt.
324 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
325    
326 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
327 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
328     - switched to using libeio.
329     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
330     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
331     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
332     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
333 root 1.143
334 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
335 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
336     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
337 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
338     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
339 root 1.141
340 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
341 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
342     also display files given on the commandline.
343 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
344     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
345 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
346     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
347     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
348 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
349     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
350 root 1.137
351 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
352 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
353 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
354 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
355 root 1.134
356 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
357     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
358     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
359     (see the manpage for details).
360     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
361     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
362     - minor code cleanups.
363    
364 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
365 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
366     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
367     work sensibly for the very first time.
368    
369 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
370 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
371     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
372     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
373     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
374    
375 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
376 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
377     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
378 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
379     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
380 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
381     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
382 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
383 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
384 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
385 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
386     - readahead emulation now returns something.
387 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
388     (should never happen, though).
389 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
390     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
391     too many functions with crashing versions.
392 root 1.120
393 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
394     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
395    
396 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
397 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
398 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
399 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
400 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
401     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
402 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
403 root 1.114
404 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
405 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
406    
407 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
408     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
409     or crashes.
410    
411 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
412 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
413 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
414     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
415 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
416 root 1.107
417 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
418 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
419 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
420     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
421     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
422 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
423 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
424 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
425 root 1.94
426 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
427 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
428     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
429 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
430     it would have to copy files manually.
431 root 1.98 - doc updates.
432 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
433 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
434 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
435 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
436 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
437 root 1.59
438 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
439 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
440 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
441 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
442 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
443 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
444 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
445     into composite requests.
446     - generator interface for groups.
447 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
448 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
449     - very minor bugfixes.
450 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
451 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
452 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
453 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
454     putting them onto the stack.
455     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
456     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
457 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
458 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
459 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
460     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
461     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
462 root 1.68
463 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
464 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
465    
466 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
467     - codename "jost"
468     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
469     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
470     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
471 root 1.63
472 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
473 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
474     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
475    
476 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
477     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
478     in a runtime error.
479    
480 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
481 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
482 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
483    
484 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
485 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
486 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
487 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
488     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
489     wasting memory).
490    
491 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
492     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
493 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
494     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
495     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
496     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
497 root 1.46
498 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
499 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
500 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
501 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
502 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
503 root 1.41
504 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
505 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
506 root 1.40 deadlocks.
507    
508 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
509 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
510     eating them.
511 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
512     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
513 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
514     length after reading.
515     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
516     from the parent.
517     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
518     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
519     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
520 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
521     scalar for better error reporting.
522 root 1.33
523 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
524     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
525 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
526     the external filename encoding first.
527 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
528 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
529     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
530     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
531     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
532 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
533     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
534 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
535     error catching.
536 root 1.1
537 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
538 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
539 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
540 root 1.23 feedback yet).
541 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
542     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
543 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
544     from Linux::AIO.
545 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
546     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
547 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
548 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
549     the fd to an fh.
550 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
551     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
552     properly encode your pathnames.
553 root 1.18
554 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
555     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
556 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
557     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
558     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
559    
560 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
561     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
562     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
563 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
564     from Linux::AIO.
565     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
566     does not implement pread/pwrite).
567     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
568    
569 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
570 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
571     need it anyway.
572     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
573     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
574    
575 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
576 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
577 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
578 root 1.8
579 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
580 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
581 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
582     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
583     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
584 root 1.5
585 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
586 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
587     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
588 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
589 root 1.2
590 root 1.1 0.1
591     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
592