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Revision: 1.104
Committed: Mon Oct 30 23:43:17 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 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
8 - minor doc updates.
9 - added aio_readlink.
10 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
11 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
12 - reduced size of aio request structure.
13
14 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
15 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
16 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
17 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
18 it would have to copy files manually.
19 - doc updates.
20 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
21 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
22 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
23 - some tuning applied to random places.
24 - add aio_mknod.
25
26 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
27 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
28 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
29 - aio requests can be cancelled.
30 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
31 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
32 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
33 into composite requests.
34 - generator interface for groups.
35 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
36 - major documentation improvements.
37 - very minor bugfixes.
38 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
39 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
40 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
41 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
42 putting them onto the stack.
43 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
44 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
45 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
46 - warn about broken perl malloc.
47 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
48 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
49 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
50
51 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
52 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
53
54 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
55 - codename "jost"
56 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
57 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
58 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
59
60 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
61 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
62 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
63
64 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
65 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
66 in a runtime error.
67
68 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
69 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
70 - added AnyEvent example.
71
72 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
73 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
74 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
75 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
76 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
77 wasting memory).
78
79 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
80 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
81 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
82 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
83 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
84 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
85
86 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
87 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
88 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
89 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
90 - abort when the configure script fails.
91
92 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
93 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
94 deadlocks.
95
96 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
97 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
98 eating them.
99 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
100 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
101 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
102 length after reading.
103 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
104 from the parent.
105 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
106 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
107 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
108 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
109 scalar for better error reporting.
110
111 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
112 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
113 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
114 the external filename encoding first.
115 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
116 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
117 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
118 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
119 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
120 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
121 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
122 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
123 error catching.
124
125 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
126 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
127 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
128 feedback yet).
129 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
130 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
131 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
132 from Linux::AIO.
133 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
134 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
135 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
136 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
137 the fd to an fh.
138 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
139 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
140 properly encode your pathnames.
141
142 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
143 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
144 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
145 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
146 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
147
148 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
149 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
150 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
151 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
152 from Linux::AIO.
153 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
154 does not implement pread/pwrite).
155 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
156
157 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
158 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
159 need it anyway.
160 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
161 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
162
163 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
164 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
165 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
166
167 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
168 - restructured manpage.
169 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
170 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
171 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
172
173 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
174 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
175 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
176 communications for most requests and responses.
177
178 0.1
179 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
180