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1 root 1.31 Revision history for IO::AIO
2 root 1.30
3 root 1.313 TODO: scandir - some dirs mostly contain subdirs - invert logic?
4 root 1.114 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5 root 1.106 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6 root 1.293 TODO: vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 root 1.136 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8 root 1.223 TODO: aio_mincore?
9 root 1.255 TODO: getxattr etc.?
10 root 1.275 TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
11 root 1.293 TODO: emulation for splice?
12 root 1.297 TODO: eio_mmap|mlock|munmap|splice...
13 root 1.312 TODO: syncfs/sync windows:
14 root 1.313 TODO: F_SETPIPE_SZ, F_GETPIPE_SZ
15 root 1.319 TODO: posix_fallocate when flags=0
16 root 1.312 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65170/how-to-get-name-associated-with-open-handle/5286888#5286888
17     http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2005/04/16/408947.aspx
18     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366789%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
19     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366789%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
20     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
21     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364963%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
22     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364996%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
23     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364994%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
24 root 1.315 TODO: extra socket/tcp constants &c?
25 root 1.320 TODO: getrandom, GRND_NONBLOCK, GRND_NONBLOCK
26     TODO: http://lwn.net/Articles/593918/ SHMEM_SET_SEALS, SHMEM_GET_SEALS, SEAL_SHRINK, SEAL_GROW, SEAL_WRITE, int memfd_create(const char *name, u64 size, u64 flags);, MFD_CLOEXEC, int fd = open("/tmp", O_RDWR | O_TMPFILE | O_EXCL, S_IRWXU);
27     TODO: O_TMPFILE
28     TODO: FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
29     TODO: FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
30     TODO: renameat RENAME_EXCHANGE, RENAME_NOREPLACE, RENAME_EXCHANGE
31     TODO: fcntl F_GETLKP/F_SETLKP/F_SETLKPW, http://lwn.net/Articles/586904/
32     TODO: flink + AT_EMPTY_PATH
33     TODO: name_to_handle_At + open_by_handle_at = clone fds
34 root 1.260
35 root 1.318 TODO: rewrite rmtree et al. to support working directories (also speed them up)
36 root 1.319 TODO: maybe IO::AIO leaks fds when requests are cancelled? maybe initialise result to -1?
37 root 1.325 TODO: aio_wd should use O_PATH on linux, due to lacking O_SEARCH (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/33611)
38     http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2013/02/23/4
39 root 1.327 TODO: aio_fcntl/ioctl test.
40 root 1.320
41 root 1.326 - removed duplicate definition of MAP_HUGETLB, that was found due to
42     a bug in Perl::Tidy (testcase by alaska332@gmail.com).
43 root 1.327 - added (untested!) aio_fcntl, aio_ioctl requests.
44 root 1.326
45 root 1.325 4.33 Mon Jan 18 12:50:10 CET 2016
46 root 1.322 - add IO::AIO::pipe2 function.
47 root 1.323 - added support for FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE and FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
48     constants.
49     - added support for O_TMPFILE and O_PATH constants.
50 root 1.324 - added support for MAP_FIXED, MAP_GROWSDOWN,MAP_32BIT, MAP_HUGETLB, MAP_STACK
51     consdtants, whether they can be sensibly used or not.
52 root 1.321 - use NO_INIT where applicable.
53     - update libecb.
54     - added stability canary support.
55 root 1.325 - updated linux super magic table to 4.3.3.
56 root 1.321
57 root 1.320 4.32 Wed Feb 11 20:32:11 CET 2015
58     - replace off_t by STRLEN where appropriate, should not result in
59     user-visible changes.
60     - update ecb.h for C11 compatibility.
61    
62 root 1.317 4.31 Tue Jun 3 03:29:27 CEST 2014
63     - work around more 5.20 bugs. backwards compatibility my ass.
64    
65 root 1.316 4.3 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
66     - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
67     without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
68     in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
69     compatibility - I will never understand.
70    
71 root 1.315 4.2 Sat Jan 25 01:13:14 CET 2014
72 root 1.314 - aio_group could corrupt memory because it didn't restore
73     the stack after req_submit.
74 root 1.315 - be more careful on (e.g. permission) errors in bin/treescan.
75 root 1.314 - work around changes in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
76 root 1.311 - (libeio) implement aio_realpath for win32.
77     - (xthread) work around compile time bugs in ptw32.
78 root 1.313 - added IO::AIO::pipesize.
79 root 1.314 - (libecb) insignificant update.
80 root 1.311
81 root 1.310 4.19 Sun Jan 6 12:47:26 CET 2013
82     - avoid endless loop in fiemap with some XFS files.
83 root 1.309 - in aio_rename and aio_rmdir, specialcase the case of [$wd, "."]
84     and call rename/rmdir instead of renameat/unlinkat.
85    
86 root 1.308 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
87     - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
88    
89 root 1.307 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
90 root 1.304 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
91 root 1.303 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
92 root 1.305 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
93 root 1.307 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
94     as per unix spec.
95 root 1.303
96     4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
97     - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
98 root 1.306 it to malfunction for paths.
99 root 1.302 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
100 root 1.301 extents.
101     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
102     trash fiemap input arguments.
103     - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
104     set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
105 root 1.302 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
106     truncates segment count if a file.
107 root 1.294 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
108     to quick overview.
109 root 1.295 - splice can corrupt data.
110 root 1.296 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
111 root 1.297 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
112 root 1.299 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
113 root 1.303 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
114 root 1.294
115 root 1.293 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
116     - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
117 root 1.292 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
118 root 1.293 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
119     - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
120     - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
121     autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
122 root 1.292
123 root 1.291 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
124     - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
125     - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
126 root 1.288 - new request aio_seek.
127 root 1.289 - new request aio_fiemap.
128     - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
129 root 1.286
130 root 1.285 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
131     - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
132     instead of -1.
133     - port to c89.
134    
135 root 1.284 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
136     - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
137    
138 root 1.283 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
139 root 1.277 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
140 root 1.272 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
141 root 1.273 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
142 root 1.276 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
143 root 1.274 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
144 root 1.279 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
145     - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
146     in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
147     - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
148     in aio_scandir and treescan.
149 root 1.280 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
150 root 1.282 - added --progress switch to treescan.
151 root 1.272
152 root 1.271 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
153 root 1.269 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
154     see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
155 root 1.271 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
156     (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
157 root 1.267 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
158     a timeout occured at the same time.
159 root 1.263 - (libeio) added realpath.
160 root 1.266 - (libeio) added fallocate.
161     - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
162 root 1.267 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
163     - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
164 root 1.263
165 root 1.262 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
166     - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
167    
168 root 1.261 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
169     - ecb.h was missing.
170    
171 root 1.260 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
172 root 1.253 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
173     kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
174     bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
175 root 1.254 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
176 root 1.260 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
177 root 1.254 transferred...)
178 root 1.255 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
179 root 1.256 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
180 root 1.257 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
181     pthread and fork in perl.
182 root 1.258 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
183     this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
184 root 1.259 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
185     run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
186 root 1.252
187 root 1.251 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
188 root 1.250 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
189     combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
190 root 1.267 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
191 root 1.251 flags.
192 root 1.238
193 root 1.247 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
194 root 1.245 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
195     - support a max_idle value of 0.
196 root 1.246 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
197 root 1.245
198     3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
199 root 1.248 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
200 root 1.244 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
201 root 1.242 - new treescan option: --grep.
202 root 1.244 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
203 root 1.241
204 root 1.240 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
205     - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
206     correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
207 root 1.239 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
208     _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
209     funcitonality. ugh.
210    
211 root 1.238 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
212     - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
213     aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
214     - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
215     - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
216     (openbsd 4.8).
217 root 1.231 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
218     had string-data.
219 root 1.238 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
220 root 1.228 them.
221 root 1.230 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
222 root 1.231 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
223     user-errors better.
224 root 1.237 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
225 root 1.228
226 root 1.227 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
227 root 1.225 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
228     cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
229     Rasmus Andersson).
230 root 1.227 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
231     by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
232     - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
233     with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
234     affects IO::AIO and BDB.
235 root 1.225
236 root 1.224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
237 root 1.219 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
238     manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
239     kernel sources.
240 root 1.222 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
241 root 1.220 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
242 root 1.221 - clean up manpage.
243 root 1.218
244 root 1.217 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
245 root 1.214 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
246     - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
247 root 1.215 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
248 root 1.216 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
249 root 1.217 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
250     they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
251 root 1.214
252 root 1.213 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
253 root 1.209 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
254     - clarify cancel_subs description.
255 root 1.210 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
256     from the sendfile call.
257 root 1.212 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
258 root 1.211 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
259 root 1.209
260 root 1.208 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
261 root 1.206 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
262 root 1.207 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
263     hash lookups.
264 root 1.206
265 root 1.205 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
266 root 1.202 - use common::sense.
267     - use common schmorp.h header.
268     - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
269 root 1.203 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
270 root 1.204 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
271 root 1.202
272 root 1.201 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
273 root 1.207 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
274 root 1.200
275 root 1.199 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
276 root 1.207 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
277     try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
278     way. might help other os's too.
279 root 1.199
280 root 1.198 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
281 root 1.197 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
282 root 1.195 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
283     sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
284     faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
285     degenerated (for quicksort) data.
286     - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
287 root 1.194 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
288 root 1.195 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
289     known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
290     - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
291     but should not have been.
292 root 1.196 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
293     which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
294 root 1.194
295 root 1.193 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
296     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
297     rushed 3.22 release.
298    
299 root 1.192 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
300 root 1.191 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
301 root 1.192 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
302 root 1.191
303 root 1.190 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
304 root 1.187 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
305 root 1.188 - install bin/treescan by default.
306 root 1.189 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
307 root 1.190 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
308     to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
309     - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
310     the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
311     a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
312     stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
313 root 1.187
314 root 1.186 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
315 root 1.182 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
316     not restore the file offset.
317 root 1.183 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
318     the names in various ways.
319 root 1.182 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
320     been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
321     process. no more!
322     - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
323    
324 root 1.181 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
325     - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
326     - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
327     - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
328    
329 root 1.180 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
330 root 1.179 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
331 root 1.180 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
332 root 1.178
333 root 1.177 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
334 root 1.176 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
335 root 1.177 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
336 root 1.175
337 root 1.174 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
338 root 1.173 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
339     part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
340    
341 root 1.172 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
342 root 1.171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
343     - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
344     has added something to the group or not.
345    
346 root 1.170 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
347 root 1.168 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
348     and decreased memory usage.
349 root 1.167 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
350 root 1.166 but seems more correct.
351 root 1.168 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
352 root 1.166 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
353     requiring a thread switch.
354 root 1.169 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
355 root 1.166 - do some other µ-optimisations.
356    
357 root 1.165 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
358     - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
359    
360 root 1.164 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
361 root 1.162 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
362 root 1.164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
363     or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
364 root 1.162
365 root 1.161 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
366 root 1.160 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
367 root 1.161 (sic!) versions.
368 root 1.160
369 root 1.159 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
370     - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
371 root 1.158 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
372     is stupid.
373 root 1.159 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
374     - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
375     not to get initialised properly.
376 root 1.158
377 root 1.157 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
378 root 1.153 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
379 root 1.155 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
380 root 1.154 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
381 root 1.156 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
382     - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
383 root 1.153
384 root 1.152 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
385 root 1.150 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
386     - bring back working fchmod.
387 root 1.151 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
388     - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
389 root 1.150
390 root 1.149 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
391     - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
392 root 1.148 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
393     - do not try to link against -lrt.
394 root 1.147 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
395    
396 root 1.146 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
397 root 1.145 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
398     - switched to using libeio.
399     - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
400     - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
401     - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
402     - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
403 root 1.143
404 root 1.142 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
405 root 1.141 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
406     (analysed by Jost Krieger).
407 root 1.142 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
408     so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
409 root 1.141
410 root 1.140 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
411 root 1.137 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
412     also display files given on the commandline.
413 root 1.140 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
414     and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
415 root 1.138 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
416     allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
417     use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
418 root 1.139 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
419     and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
420 root 1.137
421 root 1.136 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
422 root 1.134 - added aio_sync.
423 root 1.135 - added aio_pathsync.
424 root 1.136 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
425 root 1.134
426 root 1.133 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
427     - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
428     aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
429     (see the manpage for details).
430     - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
431     when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
432     - minor code cleanups.
433    
434 root 1.132 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
435 root 1.131 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
436     - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
437     work sensibly for the very first time.
438    
439 root 1.130 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
440 root 1.129 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
441     stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
442     it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
443     behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
444    
445 root 1.128 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
446 root 1.127 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
447     successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
448 root 1.124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
449     internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
450 root 1.126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
451     - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
452 root 1.124 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
453 root 1.125 have a larger range then.
454 root 1.120 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
455 root 1.127 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
456     - readahead emulation now returns something.
457 root 1.121 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
458     (should never happen, though).
459 root 1.127 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
460     but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
461     too many functions with crashing versions.
462 root 1.120
463 root 1.119 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
464     - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
465    
466 root 1.118 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
467 root 1.114 - added aio_rmtree.
468 root 1.115 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
469 root 1.116 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
470 root 1.117 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
471     (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
472 root 1.118 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
473 root 1.114
474 root 1.113 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
475 root 1.112 - added aio_load.
476    
477 root 1.111 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
478     - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
479     or crashes.
480    
481 root 1.110 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
482 root 1.108 - minor doc updates.
483 root 1.107 - minor cleanups.
484     - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
485 root 1.109 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
486 root 1.107
487 root 1.103 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
488 root 1.100 - minor doc updates.
489 root 1.101 - added aio_readlink.
490     - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
491     - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
492 root 1.104 - reduced size of aio request structure.
493 root 1.106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
494 root 1.105 do not leak request in that case, either.
495 root 1.94
496 root 1.99 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
497 root 1.98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
498     IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
499 root 1.95 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
500     it would have to copy files manually.
501 root 1.98 - doc updates.
502 root 1.94 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
503 root 1.97 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
504 root 1.98 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
505 root 1.94 - some tuning applied to random places.
506 root 1.95 - add aio_mknod.
507 root 1.59
508 root 1.92 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
509 root 1.90 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
510 root 1.86 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
511 root 1.68 - aio requests can be cancelled.
512 root 1.81 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
513 root 1.93 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
514 root 1.83 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
515     into composite requests.
516     - generator interface for groups.
517 root 1.89 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
518 root 1.72 - major documentation improvements.
519     - very minor bugfixes.
520 root 1.76 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
521 root 1.84 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
522 root 1.79 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
523 root 1.80 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
524     putting them onto the stack.
525     - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
526     - better error checking when ENOMEM.
527 root 1.85 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
528 root 1.92 - warn about broken perl malloc.
529 root 1.88 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
530     which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
531     edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
532 root 1.68
533 root 1.67 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
534 root 1.66 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
535    
536 root 1.65 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
537     - codename "jost"
538     - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
539     for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
540     wcooley@nakedape.cc).
541 root 1.63
542 root 1.62 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
543 root 1.61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
544     twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
545    
546 root 1.60 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
547     - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
548     in a runtime error.
549    
550 root 1.59 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
551 root 1.58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
552 root 1.57 - added AnyEvent example.
553    
554 root 1.55 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
555 root 1.54 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
556 root 1.56 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
557 root 1.54 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
558     libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
559     wasting memory).
560    
561 root 1.53 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
562     - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
563 root 1.51 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
564     isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
565     support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
566     code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
567 root 1.46
568 root 1.44 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
569 root 1.51 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
570 root 1.41 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
571 root 1.42 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
572 root 1.43 - abort when the configure script fails.
573 root 1.41
574 root 1.40 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
575 root 1.93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
576 root 1.40 deadlocks.
577    
578 root 1.39 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
579 root 1.33 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
580     eating them.
581 root 1.38 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
582     invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
583 root 1.37 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
584     length after reading.
585     - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
586     from the parent.
587     - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
588     (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
589     - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
590 root 1.38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
591     scalar for better error reporting.
592 root 1.33
593 root 1.32 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
594     - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
595 root 1.31 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
596     the external filename encoding first.
597 root 1.32 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
598 root 1.31 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
599     with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
600     - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
601     posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
602 root 1.32 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
603     - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
604 root 1.31 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
605     error catching.
606 root 1.1
607 root 1.29 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
608 root 1.25 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
609 root 1.27 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
610 root 1.23 feedback yet).
611 root 1.27 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
612     and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
613 root 1.19 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
614     from Linux::AIO.
615 root 1.18 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
616     compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
617 root 1.24 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
618 root 1.26 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
619     the fd to an fh.
620 root 1.28 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
621     do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
622     properly encode your pathnames.
623 root 1.18
624 root 1.17 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
625     - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
626 root 1.16 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
627     it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
628     - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
629    
630 root 1.15 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
631     - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
632     - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
633 root 1.14 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
634     from Linux::AIO.
635     (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
636     does not implement pread/pwrite).
637     - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
638    
639 root 1.13 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
640 root 1.12 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
641     need it anyway.
642     - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
643     and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
644    
645 root 1.11 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
646 root 1.9 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
647 root 1.10 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
648 root 1.8
649 root 1.7 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
650 root 1.5 - restructured manpage.
651 root 1.7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
652     - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
653     it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
654 root 1.5
655 root 1.4 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
656 root 1.2 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
657     - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
658 root 1.3 communications for most requests and responses.
659 root 1.2
660 root 1.1 0.1
661     - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
662