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Revision: 1.79
Committed: Mon Oct 23 23:48:31 2006 UTC (17 years, 7 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4 TODO: use feeder for aio_scandir.
5 TODO: -lock/unlock, +callback/etc.
6
7 2.0
8 - aio requests can be cancelled.
9 - callbacks can be set later.
10 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped.
11 - implement generator interface for groups.
12 - major documentation improvements.
13 - very minor bugfixes.
14 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
15 - add aio_sleep mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
16 - deprecated max_outstanding.
17 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
18
19 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
20 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
21
22 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
23 - codename "jost"
24 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
25 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
26 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
27
28 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
29 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
30 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
31
32 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
33 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
34 in a runtime error.
35
36 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
37 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
38 - added AnyEvent example.
39
40 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
41 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
42 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
43 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
44 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
45 wasting memory).
46
47 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
48 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
49 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
50 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
51 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
52 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
53
54 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
55 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
56 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
57 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
58 - abort when the configure script fails.
59
60 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
61 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
62 deadlocks.
63
64 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
65 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
66 eating them.
67 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
68 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
69 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
70 length after reading.
71 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
72 from the parent.
73 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
74 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
75 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
76 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
77 scalar for better error reporting.
78
79 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
80 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
81 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
82 the external filename encoding first.
83 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
84 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
85 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
86 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
87 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
88 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
89 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
90 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
91 error catching.
92
93 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
94 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
95 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
96 feedback yet).
97 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
98 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
99 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
100 from Linux::AIO.
101 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
102 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
103 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
104 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
105 the fd to an fh.
106 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
107 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
108 properly encode your pathnames.
109
110 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
111 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
112 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
113 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
114 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
115
116 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
117 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
118 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
119 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
120 from Linux::AIO.
121 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
122 does not implement pread/pwrite).
123 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
124
125 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
126 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
127 need it anyway.
128 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
129 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
130
131 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
132 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
133 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
134
135 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
136 - restructured manpage.
137 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
138 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
139 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
140
141 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
142 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
143 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
144 communications for most requests and responses.
145
146 0.1
147 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
148