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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
92.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
10 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
11 also display files given on the commandline.
12 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
13 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
14 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
15 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
16 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
17 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
18 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
19
202.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
21 - added aio_sync.
22 - added aio_pathsync.
23 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
24
252.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
26 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
27 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
28 (see the manpage for details).
29 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
30 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
31 - minor code cleanups.
32
332.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
34 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
35 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
36 work sensibly for the very first time.
37
382.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
39 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
40 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
41 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
42 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
43
442.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
45 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
46 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
47 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
48 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
49 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
50 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
51 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
52 have a larger range then.
53 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
54 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
55 - readahead emulation now returns something.
56 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
57 (should never happen, though).
58 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
59 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
60 too many functions with crashing versions.
61
622.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
63 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
64
652.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
66 - added aio_rmtree.
67 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
68 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
69 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
70 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
71 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
72
732.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
74 - added aio_load.
75
762.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
77 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
78 or crashes.
79
802.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
81 - minor doc updates.
82 - minor cleanups.
83 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
84 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
85
862.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
87 - minor doc updates.
88 - added aio_readlink.
89 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
90 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
91 - reduced size of aio request structure.
92 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
93 do not leak request in that case, either.
94
952.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
96 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
97 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
98 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
99 it would have to copy files manually.
100 - doc updates.
101 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
102 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
103 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
104 - some tuning applied to random places.
105 - add aio_mknod.
106
1072.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
108 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
109 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
110 - aio requests can be cancelled.
111 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
112 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
113 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
114 into composite requests.
115 - generator interface for groups.
116 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
117 - major documentation improvements.
118 - very minor bugfixes.
119 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
120 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
121 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
122 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
123 putting them onto the stack.
124 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
125 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
126 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
127 - warn about broken perl malloc.
128 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
129 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
130 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
131
1321.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
133 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
134
1351.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
136 - codename "jost"
137 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
138 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
139 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
140
1411.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
142 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
143 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
144
1451.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
146 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
147 in a runtime error.
148
1491.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
150 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
151 - added AnyEvent example.
152
1531.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
154 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
155 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
156 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
157 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
158 wasting memory).
159
1601.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
161 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
162 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
163 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
164 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
165 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
166
1671.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
168 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
169 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
170 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
171 - abort when the configure script fails.
172
1731.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
174 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
175 deadlocks.
176
1771.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
178 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
179 eating them.
180 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
181 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
182 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
183 length after reading.
184 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
185 from the parent.
186 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
187 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
188 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
189 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
190 scalar for better error reporting.
191
1921.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
193 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
194 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
195 the external filename encoding first.
196 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
197 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
198 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
199 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
200 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
201 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
202 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
203 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
204 error catching.
205
2061.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
207 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
208 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
209 feedback yet).
210 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
211 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
212 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
213 from Linux::AIO.
214 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
215 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
216 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
217 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
218 the fd to an fh.
219 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
220 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
221 properly encode your pathnames.
222
2231.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
224 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
225 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
226 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
227 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
2 228
30.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005 2290.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
4 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too. 230 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
5 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS. 231 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
6 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover 232 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover

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