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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? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless.
9TODO: aio_mincore?
10TODO: add? also linux-specific stuff?
11TODO: O_EXEC O_SEARCH O_CLOEXEC O_DIRECTORY O_DSYNC O_NOCTTY O_NOFOLLOW O_NONBLOCK O_RSYNC O_SYNC O_TTY_INIT O_DIRECT O_LARGEFILE O_NOATIME O_ASYNC
3 12
133.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
14 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
15 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
16 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
17 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
18 (openbsd 4.8).
19 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
20 had string-data.
21 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
22 them.
23 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
24 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
25 user-errors better.
26 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
27
283.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
29 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
30 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
31 Rasmus Andersson).
32 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
33 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
34 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
35 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
36 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
37
383.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
39 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
40 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
41 kernel sources.
42 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
43 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
44 - clean up manpage.
45
463.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
47 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
48 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
49 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
50 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
51 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
52 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
53
543.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
55 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
56 - clarify cancel_subs description.
57 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
58 from the sendfile call.
59 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
60 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
61
623.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
63 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
64 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
65 hash lookups.
66
673.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
68 - use common::sense.
69 - use common schmorp.h header.
70 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
71 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
72 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
73
743.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
75 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
76
773.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
78 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
79 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
80 way. might help other os's too.
81
823.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
83 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
84 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
85 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
86 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
87 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
88 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
89 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
90 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
91 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
92 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
93 but should not have been.
94 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
95 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
96
973.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
98 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
99 rushed 3.22 release.
100
1013.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
102 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
103 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
104
1053.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
106 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
107 - install bin/treescan by default.
108 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
109 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
110 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
111 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
112 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
113 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
114 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
115
1163.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
117 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
118 not restore the file offset.
119 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
120 the names in various ways.
121 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
122 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
123 process. no more!
124 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
125
1263.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
127 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
128 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
129 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
130
1313.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
132 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
133 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
134
1353.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
136 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
137 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
138
1393.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
140 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
141 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
142
1433.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
144 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
145 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
146 has added something to the group or not.
147
1483.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
149 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
150 and decreased memory usage.
151 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
152 but seems more correct.
153 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
154 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
155 requiring a thread switch.
156 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
157 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
158
1593.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
160 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
161
1623.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
163 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
164 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
165 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
166
1673.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
168 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
169 (sic!) versions.
170
1713.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
172 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
173 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
174 is stupid.
175 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
176 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
177 not to get initialised properly.
178
1793.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
180 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
181 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
182 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
183 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
184 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
185
1863.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
187 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
188 - bring back working fchmod.
189 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
190 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
191
1923.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
193 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
194 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
195 - do not try to link against -lrt.
196 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
197
1983.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
199 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
200 - switched to using libeio.
201 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
202 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
203 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
204 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
205
2062.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
207 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
208 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
209 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
210 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
211
2122.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
213 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
214 also display files given on the commandline.
215 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
216 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
217 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
218 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
219 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
220 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
221 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
222
2232.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
224 - added aio_sync.
225 - added aio_pathsync.
226 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
227
2282.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
229 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
230 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
231 (see the manpage for details).
232 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
233 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
234 - minor code cleanups.
235
2362.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
237 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
238 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
239 work sensibly for the very first time.
240
2412.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
242 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
243 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
244 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
245 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
246
2472.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
248 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
249 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
250 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
251 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
252 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
253 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
254 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
255 have a larger range then.
256 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
257 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
258 - readahead emulation now returns something.
259 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
260 (should never happen, though).
261 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
262 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
263 too many functions with crashing versions.
264
2652.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
266 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
267
2682.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
269 - added aio_rmtree.
270 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
271 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
272 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
273 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
274 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
275
2762.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
277 - added aio_load.
278
2792.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
280 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
281 or crashes.
282
2832.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
284 - minor doc updates.
285 - minor cleanups.
286 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
287 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
288
2892.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
290 - minor doc updates.
291 - added aio_readlink.
292 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
293 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
294 - reduced size of aio request structure.
295 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
296 do not leak request in that case, either.
297
2982.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
299 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
300 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
301 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
302 it would have to copy files manually.
303 - doc updates.
304 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
305 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
306 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
307 - some tuning applied to random places.
308 - add aio_mknod.
309
3102.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
311 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
312 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
313 - aio requests can be cancelled.
314 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
315 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
316 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
317 into composite requests.
318 - generator interface for groups.
319 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
320 - major documentation improvements.
321 - very minor bugfixes.
322 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
323 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
324 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
325 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
326 putting them onto the stack.
327 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
328 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
329 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
330 - warn about broken perl malloc.
331 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
332 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
333 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
334
3351.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
336 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
337
3381.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
339 - codename "jost"
340 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
341 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
342 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
343
3441.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
345 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
346 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
347
3481.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
349 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
350 in a runtime error.
351
3521.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
353 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
354 - added AnyEvent example.
355
3561.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
357 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
358 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
359 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
360 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
361 wasting memory).
362
3631.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
364 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
365 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
366 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
367 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
368 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
369
3701.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
371 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
372 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
373 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
374 - abort when the configure script fails.
375
3761.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
377 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
378 deadlocks.
379
3801.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
381 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
382 eating them.
383 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
384 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
385 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
386 length after reading.
387 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
388 from the parent.
389 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
390 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
391 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
392 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
393 scalar for better error reporting.
394
3951.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
396 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
397 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
398 the external filename encoding first.
399 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
400 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
401 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
402 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
403 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
404 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
405 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
406 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
407 error catching.
408
4091.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
410 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
411 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
412 feedback yet).
413 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
414 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
415 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
416 from Linux::AIO.
417 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
418 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
419 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
420 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
421 the fd to an fh.
422 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
423 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
424 properly encode your pathnames.
425
4261.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
427 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
428 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
429 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
430 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
431
4320.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
433 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
434 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
435 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
436 from Linux::AIO.
437 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
438 does not implement pread/pwrite).
439 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
440
4410.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
442 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
443 need it anyway.
444 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
445 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
446
4470.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
448 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
449 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
450
4510.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
452 - restructured manpage.
453 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
454 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
455 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
456
4570.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
4 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. 458 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
5 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread 459 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
6 communications. 460 communications for most requests and responses.
7 461
80.1 4620.1
9 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar. 463 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
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