--- IO-AIO/Changes 2005/08/17 04:47:02 1.37 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2005/08/30 15:45:10 1.53 @@ -1,10 +1,27 @@ Revision history for IO::AIO -1.3 +1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005 + - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir. + - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile + isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev + support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary + code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...). + +1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005 + - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking). + - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should + be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones. + - abort when the configure script fails. + +1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 + - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause + deadlocks. + +1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently eating them. - - be more careful during fork and allow recursive forks from within - atfork handlers *iff* the pthreads library in use allows it. + - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback + invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes. - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong length after reading. - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests @@ -12,6 +29,8 @@ - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes. - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write. + - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data + scalar for better error reporting. 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.