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Revision: 1.100
Committed: Sun Oct 29 11:04:35 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: aio_cptree/mvtree/rmtree
5 TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first?
6
7 - minor doc updates.
8
9 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
10 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
11 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
12 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
13 it would have to copy files manually.
14 - doc updates.
15 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
16 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
17 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
18 - some tuning applied to random places.
19 - add aio_mknod.
20
21 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
22 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
23 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
24 - aio requests can be cancelled.
25 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
26 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
27 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
28 into composite requests.
29 - generator interface for groups.
30 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
31 - major documentation improvements.
32 - very minor bugfixes.
33 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
34 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
35 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
36 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
37 putting them onto the stack.
38 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
39 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
40 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
41 - warn about broken perl malloc.
42 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
43 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
44 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
45
46 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
47 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
48
49 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
50 - codename "jost"
51 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
52 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
53 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
54
55 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
56 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
57 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
58
59 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
60 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
61 in a runtime error.
62
63 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
64 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
65 - added AnyEvent example.
66
67 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
68 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
69 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
70 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
71 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
72 wasting memory).
73
74 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
75 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
76 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
77 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
78 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
79 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
80
81 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
82 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
83 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
84 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
85 - abort when the configure script fails.
86
87 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
88 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
89 deadlocks.
90
91 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
92 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
93 eating them.
94 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
95 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
96 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
97 length after reading.
98 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
99 from the parent.
100 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
101 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
102 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
103 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
104 scalar for better error reporting.
105
106 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
107 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
108 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
109 the external filename encoding first.
110 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
111 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
112 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
113 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
114 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
115 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
116 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
117 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
118 error catching.
119
120 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
121 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
122 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
123 feedback yet).
124 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
125 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
126 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
127 from Linux::AIO.
128 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
129 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
130 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
131 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
132 the fd to an fh.
133 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
134 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
135 properly encode your pathnames.
136
137 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
138 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
139 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
140 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
141 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
142
143 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
144 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
145 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
146 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
147 from Linux::AIO.
148 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
149 does not implement pread/pwrite).
150 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
151
152 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
153 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
154 need it anyway.
155 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
156 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
157
158 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
159 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
160 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
161
162 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
163 - restructured manpage.
164 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
165 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
166 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
167
168 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
169 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
170 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
171 communications for most requests and responses.
172
173 0.1
174 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
175