--- IO-AIO/Changes 2009/06/13 03:59:04 1.191 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2010/08/04 16:06:54 1.232 @@ -5,8 +5,107 @@ TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first? TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/) TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking +TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless. +TODO: aio_mincore? +TODO: posix_madvise. +TODO: add? also linux-specific stuff? +O_EXEC +O_SEARCH +O_CLOEXEC +O_DIRECTORY +O_DSYNC +O_NOCTTY +O_NOFOLLOW +O_NONBLOCK +O_RSYNC +O_SYNC +O_TTY_INIT +TODO: document/test madvise + - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already + had string-data. + - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-documented + them. + - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case. + - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect + user-errors better. + +3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010 + - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not + cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by + Rasmus Andersson). + - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase + by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt. + - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding + with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os. + affects IO::AIO and BDB. + +3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010 + - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by + manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual + kernel sources. + - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support. + - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support. + - clean up manpage. + +3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010 + - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu). + - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug. + - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs. + - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite. + - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew + they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers! + +3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010 + - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks. + - clarify cancel_subs description. + - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value + from the sendfile call. + - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch. + - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile. + +3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009 + - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move. + - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding + hash lookups. + +3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009 + - use common::sense. + - use common schmorp.h header. + - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles. + - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?). + - use poll not select on posix platforms. + +3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009 + - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno). + +3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009 + - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise. + try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish + way. might help other os's too. + +3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009 + - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile. + - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix + sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually + faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on + degenerated (for quicksort) data. + - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type + knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used. + - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no + known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue. + - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code + but should not have been. + - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64, + which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls). + +3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009 + - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the + rushed 3.22 release. + +3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly. + - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball. 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.