--- IO-AIO/Changes 2007/05/09 06:45:12 1.120 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2007/12/02 20:54:33 1.134 @@ -2,11 +2,49 @@ TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc. TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree -TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first? TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first? TODO: fix setsig +TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/) +2.6 + - added aio_sync. + +2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007 + - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably. + aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous + (see the manpage for details). + - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly + when poll_cb handles many requests without returning. + - minor code cleanups. + +2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007 + - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code. + - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might + work sensibly for the very first time. + +2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007 + - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno + stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make + it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking + behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers. + +2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007 + - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux + successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...). + - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2) + internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles). + - allow undef for length in aio_write. + - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write. + - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs + have a larger range then. - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO. + - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed. + - readahead emulation now returns something. + - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions + (should never happen, though). + - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32, + but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way + too many functions with crashing versions. 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).