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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 1.311 - (libeio) implement aio_realpath for win32.
14     - (xthread) work around compile time bugs in ptw32.
15    
16 root 1.310 4.19 Sun Jan 6 12:47:26 CET 2013
17     - avoid endless loop in fiemap with some XFS files.
18 root 1.309 - in aio_rename and aio_rmdir, specialcase the case of [$wd, "."]
19     and call rename/rmdir instead of renameat/unlinkat.
20    
21 root 1.308 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
22     - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
23    
24 root 1.307 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
25 root 1.304 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
26 root 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
27 root 1.305 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
28 root 1.307 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
29     as per unix spec.
30 root 1.303
31     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
32     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
33 root 1.306 it to malfunction for paths.
34 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
35 root 1.301 extents.
36     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
37     trash fiemap input arguments.
38     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
39     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
40 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
41     truncates segment count if a file.
42 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
43     to quick overview.
44 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
45 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
46 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
47 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
48 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
49 root 1.294
50 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
51     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
52 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
53 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
54     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
55     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
56     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
57 root 1.292
58 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
59     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
60     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
61 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
62 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
63     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
64 root 1.286
65 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
66     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
67     instead of -1.
68     - port to c89.
69    
70 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
71     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
72    
73 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
74 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
75 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
76 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
77 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
78 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
79 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
80     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
81     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
82     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
83     in aio_scandir and treescan.
84 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
85 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
86 root 1.272
87 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
88 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
89     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
90 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
91     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
92 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
93     a timeout occured at the same time.
94 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
95 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
96     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
97 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
98     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
99 root 1.263
100 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
101     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
102    
103 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
104     - ecb.h was missing.
105    
106 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
107 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
108     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
109     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
110 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
111 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
112 root 1.254 transferred...)
113 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
114 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
115 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
116     pthread and fork in perl.
117 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
118     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
119 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
120     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
121 root 1.252
122 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
123 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
124     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
125 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
126 root 1.251 flags.
127 root 1.238
128 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
129 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
130     - support a max_idle value of 0.
131 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
132 root 1.245
133     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
134 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
135 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
136 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
137 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
138 root 1.241
139 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
140     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
141     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
142 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
143     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
144     funcitonality. ugh.
145    
146 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
147     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
148     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
149     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
150     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
151     (openbsd 4.8).
152 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
153     had string-data.
154 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
155 root 1.228 them.
156 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
157 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
158     user-errors better.
159 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
160 root 1.228
161 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
162 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
163     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
164     Rasmus Andersson).
165 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
166     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
167     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
168     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
169     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
170 root 1.225
171 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
172 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
173     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
174     kernel sources.
175 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
176 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
177 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
178 root 1.218
179 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
180 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
181     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
182 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
183 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
184 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
185     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
186 root 1.214
187 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
188 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
189     - clarify cancel_subs description.
190 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
191     from the sendfile call.
192 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
193 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
194 root 1.209
195 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
196 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
197 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
198     hash lookups.
199 root 1.206
200 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
201 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
202     - use common schmorp.h header.
203     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
204 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
205 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
206 root 1.202
207 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
208 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
209 root 1.200
210 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
211 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
212     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
213     way. might help other os's too.
214 root 1.199
215 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
216 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
217 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
218     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
219     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
220     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
221     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
222 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
223 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
224     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
225     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
226     but should not have been.
227 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
228     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
229 root 1.194
230 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
231     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
232     rushed 3.22 release.
233    
234 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
235 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
236 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
237 root 1.191
238 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
239 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
240 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
241 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
242 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
243     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
244     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
245     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
246     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
247     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
248 root 1.187
249 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
250 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
251     not restore the file offset.
252 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
253     the names in various ways.
254 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
255     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
256     process. no more!
257     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
258    
259 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
260     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
261     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
262     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
263    
264 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
265 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
266 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
267 root 1.178
268 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
269 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
270 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
271 root 1.175
272 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
273 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
274     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
275    
276 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
277 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
278     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
279     has added something to the group or not.
280    
281 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
282 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
283     and decreased memory usage.
284 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
285 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
286 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
287 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
288     requiring a thread switch.
289 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
290 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
291    
292 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
293     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
294    
295 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
296 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
297 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
298     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
299 root 1.162
300 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
301 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
302 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
303 root 1.160
304 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
305     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
306 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
307     is stupid.
308 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
309     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
310     not to get initialised properly.
311 root 1.158
312 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
313 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
314 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
315 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
316 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
317     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
318 root 1.153
319 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
320 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
321     - bring back working fchmod.
322 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
323     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
324 root 1.150
325 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
326     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
327 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
328     - do not try to link against -lrt.
329 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
330    
331 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
332 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
333     - switched to using libeio.
334     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
335     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
336     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
337     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
338 root 1.143
339 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
340 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
341     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
342 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
343     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
344 root 1.141
345 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
346 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
347     also display files given on the commandline.
348 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
349     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
350 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
351     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
352     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
353 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
354     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
355 root 1.137
356 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
357 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
358 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
359 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
360 root 1.134
361 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
362     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
363     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
364     (see the manpage for details).
365     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
366     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
367     - minor code cleanups.
368    
369 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
370 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
371     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
372     work sensibly for the very first time.
373    
374 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
375 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
376     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
377     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
378     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
379    
380 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
381 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
382     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
383 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
384     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
385 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
386     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
387 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
388 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
389 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
390 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
391     - readahead emulation now returns something.
392 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
393     (should never happen, though).
394 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
395     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
396     too many functions with crashing versions.
397 root 1.120
398 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
399     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
400    
401 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
402 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
403 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
404 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
405 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
406     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
407 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
408 root 1.114
409 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
410 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
411    
412 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
413     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
414     or crashes.
415    
416 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
417 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
418 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
419     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
420 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
421 root 1.107
422 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
423 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
424 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
425     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
426     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
427 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
428 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
429 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
430 root 1.94
431 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
432 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
433     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
434 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
435     it would have to copy files manually.
436 root 1.98 - doc updates.
437 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
438 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
439 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
440 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
441 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
442 root 1.59
443 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
444 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
445 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
446 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
447 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
448 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
449 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
450     into composite requests.
451     - generator interface for groups.
452 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
453 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
454     - very minor bugfixes.
455 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
456 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
457 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
458 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
459     putting them onto the stack.
460     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
461     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
462 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
463 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
464 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
465     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
466     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
467 root 1.68
468 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
469 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
470    
471 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
472     - codename "jost"
473     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
474     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
475     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
476 root 1.63
477 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
478 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
479     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
480    
481 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
482     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
483     in a runtime error.
484    
485 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
486 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
487 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
488    
489 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
490 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
491 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
492 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
493     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
494     wasting memory).
495    
496 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
497     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
498 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
499     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
500     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
501     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
502 root 1.46
503 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
504 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
505 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
506 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
507 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
508 root 1.41
509 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
510 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
511 root 1.40 deadlocks.
512    
513 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
514 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
515     eating them.
516 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
517     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
518 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
519     length after reading.
520     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
521     from the parent.
522     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
523     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
524     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
525 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
526     scalar for better error reporting.
527 root 1.33
528 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
529     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
530 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
531     the external filename encoding first.
532 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
533 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
534     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
535     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
536     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
537 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
538     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
539 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
540     error catching.
541 root 1.1
542 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
543 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
544 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
545 root 1.23 feedback yet).
546 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
547     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
548 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
549     from Linux::AIO.
550 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
551     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
552 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
553 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
554     the fd to an fh.
555 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
556     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
557     properly encode your pathnames.
558 root 1.18
559 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
560     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
561 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
562     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
563     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
564    
565 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
566     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
567     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
568 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
569     from Linux::AIO.
570     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
571     does not implement pread/pwrite).
572     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
573    
574 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
575 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
576     need it anyway.
577     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
578     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
579    
580 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
581 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
582 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
583 root 1.8
584 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
585 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
586 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
587     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
588     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
589 root 1.5
590 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
591 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
592     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
593 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
594 root 1.2
595 root 1.1 0.1
596     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
597