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Revision 1.154 by root, Tue May 13 19:35:16 2008 UTC

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31.1 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
9 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
10 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
11
123.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
13 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
14 - bring back working fchmod.
15 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
16 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
17
183.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
19 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
20 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
21 - do not try to link against -lrt.
22 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
23
243.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
25 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
26 - switched to using libeio.
27 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
28 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
29 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
30 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
31
322.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
33 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
34 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
35 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
36 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
37
382.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
39 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
40 also display files given on the commandline.
41 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
42 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
43 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
44 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
45 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
46 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
47 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
48
492.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
50 - added aio_sync.
51 - added aio_pathsync.
52 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
53
542.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
55 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
56 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
57 (see the manpage for details).
58 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
59 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
60 - minor code cleanups.
61
622.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
63 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
64 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
65 work sensibly for the very first time.
66
672.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
68 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
69 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
70 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
71 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
72
732.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
74 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
75 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
76 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
77 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
78 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
79 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
80 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
81 have a larger range then.
82 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
83 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
84 - readahead emulation now returns something.
85 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
86 (should never happen, though).
87 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
88 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
89 too many functions with crashing versions.
90
912.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
92 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
93
942.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
95 - added aio_rmtree.
96 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
97 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
98 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
99 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
100 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
101
1022.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
103 - added aio_load.
104
1052.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
106 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
107 or crashes.
108
1092.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
110 - minor doc updates.
111 - minor cleanups.
112 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
113 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
114
1152.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
116 - minor doc updates.
117 - added aio_readlink.
118 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
119 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
120 - reduced size of aio request structure.
121 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
122 do not leak request in that case, either.
123
1242.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
125 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
126 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
127 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
128 it would have to copy files manually.
129 - doc updates.
130 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
131 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
132 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
133 - some tuning applied to random places.
134 - add aio_mknod.
135
1362.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
137 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
138 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
139 - aio requests can be cancelled.
140 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
141 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
142 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
143 into composite requests.
144 - generator interface for groups.
145 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
146 - major documentation improvements.
147 - very minor bugfixes.
148 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
149 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
150 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
151 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
152 putting them onto the stack.
153 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
154 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
155 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
156 - warn about broken perl malloc.
157 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
158 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
159 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
160
1611.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
162 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
163
1641.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
165 - codename "jost"
166 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
167 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
168 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
169
1701.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
171 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
172 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
173
1741.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
175 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
176 in a runtime error.
177
1781.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
179 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
180 - added AnyEvent example.
181
1821.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
183 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
184 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
185 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
186 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
187 wasting memory).
188
1891.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
190 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
191 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
192 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
193 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
194 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
195
1961.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
197 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
198 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
199 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
200 - abort when the configure script fails.
201
2021.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
203 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
204 deadlocks.
205
2061.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
207 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
208 eating them.
209 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
210 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
211 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
212 length after reading.
213 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
214 from the parent.
215 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
216 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
217 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
218 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
219 scalar for better error reporting.
220
2211.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
222 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
223 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
224 the external filename encoding first.
225 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
226 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
227 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
228 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
229 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
230 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
231 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
232 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
233 error catching.
234
2351.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
4 - added configure script to detetc availability of some calls. 236 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
237 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
238 feedback yet).
5 - emulate fdatasync by fsync, pread/pwrite by unsafe read/write 239 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
6 and readahead by manual reading on platforms lacking those. 240 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
7 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick 241 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
8 from Linux::AIO. 242 from Linux::AIO.
9 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't 243 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
10 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well. 244 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
245 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
246 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
247 the fd to an fh.
248 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
249 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
250 properly encode your pathnames.
11 251
121.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005 2521.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
13 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles. 253 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
14 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so 254 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
15 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it. 255 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.

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