--- IO-AIO/Changes 2005/07/31 19:04:45 1.24 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2005/08/17 03:52:20 1.36 @@ -1,16 +1,43 @@ Revision history for IO::AIO -1.1 - - added configure script to detetc availability of some calls. - (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due it missing +1.3 + - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently + eating them. + - use a different, less efficient but quicker and hopefully more robust + strategy, which allows for better reentrancy when forking in aio + callbacks. + - fix a segfault that could occur when threads were being reaped. + +1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005 + - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris. + - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to + the external filename encoding first. + - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again). + - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away + with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS. + - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and + posix contradict each other, I followed posix). + - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup). + - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink. + - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better + error catching. + +1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005 + - added configure script to detect availability of some calls. + (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing feedback yet). - - emulate fdatasync by fsync, pread/pwrite by unsafe read/write - and readahead by manual reading on platforms lacking those. + - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write + and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those. - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick from Linux::AIO. - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well. - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls. + - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing + the fd to an fh. + - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might + do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you + properly encode your pathnames. 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.