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Revision: 1.87
Committed: Wed Oct 25 17:57:30 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
5 2.0
6 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: max_outstanding was removed, use
7 a group with a feeder instead.
8 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
9 - aio requests can be cancelled.
10 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
11 - aio requests can have choose 9 priorities.
12 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
13 into composite requests.
14 - generator interface for groups.
15 - major documentation improvements.
16 - very minor bugfixes.
17 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
18 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
19 - deprecated max_outstanding.
20 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
21 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
22 putting them onto the stack.
23 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
24 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
25 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
26
27 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
28 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
29
30 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
31 - codename "jost"
32 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
33 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
34 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
35
36 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
37 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
38 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
39
40 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
41 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
42 in a runtime error.
43
44 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
45 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
46 - added AnyEvent example.
47
48 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
49 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
50 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
51 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
52 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
53 wasting memory).
54
55 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
56 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
57 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
58 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
59 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
60 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
61
62 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
63 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
64 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
65 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
66 - abort when the configure script fails.
67
68 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
69 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
70 deadlocks.
71
72 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
73 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
74 eating them.
75 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
76 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
77 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
78 length after reading.
79 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
80 from the parent.
81 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
82 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
83 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
84 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
85 scalar for better error reporting.
86
87 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
88 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
89 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
90 the external filename encoding first.
91 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
92 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
93 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
94 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
95 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
96 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
97 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
98 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
99 error catching.
100
101 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
102 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
103 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
104 feedback yet).
105 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
106 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
107 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
108 from Linux::AIO.
109 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
110 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
111 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
112 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
113 the fd to an fh.
114 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
115 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
116 properly encode your pathnames.
117
118 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
119 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
120 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
121 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
122 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
123
124 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
125 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
126 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
127 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
128 from Linux::AIO.
129 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
130 does not implement pread/pwrite).
131 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
132
133 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
134 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
135 need it anyway.
136 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
137 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
138
139 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
140 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
141 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
142
143 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
144 - restructured manpage.
145 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
146 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
147 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
148
149 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
150 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
151 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
152 communications for most requests and responses.
153
154 0.1
155 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
156