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Revision: 1.82
Committed: Tue Oct 24 00:28:19 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
6 2.0
7 - aio requests can be cancelled.
8 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
9 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped.
10 - implement generator interface for groups.
11 - major documentation improvements.
12 - very minor bugfixes.
13 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
14 - add aio_sleep mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
15 - deprecated max_outstanding.
16 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
17 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
18 putting them onto the stack.
19 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
20 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
21
22 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
23 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
24
25 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
26 - codename "jost"
27 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
28 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
29 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
30
31 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
32 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
33 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
34
35 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
36 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
37 in a runtime error.
38
39 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
40 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
41 - added AnyEvent example.
42
43 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
44 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
45 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
46 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
47 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
48 wasting memory).
49
50 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
51 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
52 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
53 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
54 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
55 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
56
57 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
58 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
59 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
60 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
61 - abort when the configure script fails.
62
63 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
64 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
65 deadlocks.
66
67 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
68 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
69 eating them.
70 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
71 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
72 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
73 length after reading.
74 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
75 from the parent.
76 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
77 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
78 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
79 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
80 scalar for better error reporting.
81
82 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
83 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
84 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
85 the external filename encoding first.
86 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
87 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
88 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
89 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
90 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
91 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
92 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
93 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
94 error catching.
95
96 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
97 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
98 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
99 feedback yet).
100 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
101 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
102 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
103 from Linux::AIO.
104 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
105 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
106 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
107 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
108 the fd to an fh.
109 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
110 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
111 properly encode your pathnames.
112
113 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
114 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
115 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
116 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
117 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
118
119 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
120 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
121 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
122 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
123 from Linux::AIO.
124 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
125 does not implement pread/pwrite).
126 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
127
128 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
129 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
130 need it anyway.
131 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
132 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
133
134 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
135 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
136 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
137
138 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
139 - restructured manpage.
140 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
141 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
142 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
143
144 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
145 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
146 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
147 communications for most requests and responses.
148
149 0.1
150 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
151