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3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6TODO: splice/tee/vmsplice/sync_file_range? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8
93.0
10 - lots of incompatible changes:
11 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
12 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
13 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
14
152.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
16 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
17 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
18 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
19 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
20
212.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
22 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
23 also display files given on the commandline.
24 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
25 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
26 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
27 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
28 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
29 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
30 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
31
322.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
33 - added aio_sync.
34 - added aio_pathsync.
35 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
36
372.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
38 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
39 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
40 (see the manpage for details).
41 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
42 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
43 - minor code cleanups.
44
452.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
46 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
47 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
48 work sensibly for the very first time.
49
502.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
51 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
52 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
53 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
54 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
55
562.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
57 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
58 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
59 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
60 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
61 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
62 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
63 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
64 have a larger range then.
65 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
66 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
67 - readahead emulation now returns something.
68 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
69 (should never happen, though).
70 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
71 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
72 too many functions with crashing versions.
73
742.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
75 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
76
772.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
78 - added aio_rmtree.
79 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
80 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
81 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
82 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
83 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
84
852.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
86 - added aio_load.
87
882.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
89 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
90 or crashes.
91
922.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
93 - minor doc updates.
94 - minor cleanups.
95 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
96 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
97
982.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
99 - minor doc updates.
100 - added aio_readlink.
101 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
102 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
103 - reduced size of aio request structure.
104 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
105 do not leak request in that case, either.
106
1072.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
108 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
109 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
110 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
111 it would have to copy files manually.
112 - doc updates.
113 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
114 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
115 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
116 - some tuning applied to random places.
117 - add aio_mknod.
118
1192.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
120 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
121 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
122 - aio requests can be cancelled.
123 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
124 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
125 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
126 into composite requests.
127 - generator interface for groups.
128 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
129 - major documentation improvements.
130 - very minor bugfixes.
131 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
132 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
133 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
134 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
135 putting them onto the stack.
136 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
137 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
138 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
139 - warn about broken perl malloc.
140 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
141 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
142 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
143
1441.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
145 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
146
1471.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
148 - codename "jost"
149 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
150 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
151 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
152
1531.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
154 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
155 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
156
1571.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
158 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
159 in a runtime error.
160
1611.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
162 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
163 - added AnyEvent example.
164
1651.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
166 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
167 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
168 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
169 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
170 wasting memory).
171
1721.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
173 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
174 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
175 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
176 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
177 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
178
1791.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
180 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
181 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
182 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
183 - abort when the configure script fails.
184
1851.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
186 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
187 deadlocks.
188
1891.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
190 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
191 eating them.
192 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
193 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
194 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
195 length after reading.
196 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
197 from the parent.
198 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
199 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
200 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
201 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
202 scalar for better error reporting.
203
2041.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
205 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
206 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
207 the external filename encoding first.
208 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
209 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
210 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
211 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
212 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
213 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
214 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
215 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
216 error catching.
217
2181.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
219 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
220 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
221 feedback yet).
222 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
223 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
224 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
225 from Linux::AIO.
226 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
227 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
228 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
229 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
230 the fd to an fh.
231 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
232 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
233 properly encode your pathnames.
234
2351.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
236 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
237 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
238 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
239 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
240
2410.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
242 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
243 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
244 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
245 from Linux::AIO.
246 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
247 does not implement pread/pwrite).
248 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
249
2500.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
251 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
252 need it anyway.
253 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
254 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
255
2560.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
257 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
258 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
2 259
30.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005 2600.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
4 - restructured manpage. 261 - restructured manpage.
5 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk. 262 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
6 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain 263 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain

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