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Revision 1.94 by root, Fri Oct 27 19:17:24 2006 UTC

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31.1 3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: maxidle? exit after idle time?
5
6 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
7 - some tuning applied to random places.
8
92.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
10 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
11 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
12 - aio requests can be cancelled.
13 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
14 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
15 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
16 into composite requests.
17 - generator interface for groups.
18 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
19 - major documentation improvements.
20 - very minor bugfixes.
21 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
22 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
23 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
24 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
25 putting them onto the stack.
26 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
27 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
28 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
29 - warn about broken perl malloc.
30 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
31 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
32 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
33
341.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
35 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
36
371.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
38 - codename "jost"
39 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
40 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
41 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
42
431.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
44 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
45 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
46
471.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
48 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
49 in a runtime error.
50
511.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
52 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
53 - added AnyEvent example.
54
551.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
56 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
57 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
58 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
59 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
60 wasting memory).
61
621.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
63 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
64 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
65 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
66 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
67 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
68
691.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
70 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
71 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
72 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
73 - abort when the configure script fails.
74
751.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
76 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
77 deadlocks.
78
791.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
80 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
81 eating them.
82 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
83 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
84 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
85 length after reading.
86 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
87 from the parent.
88 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
89 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
90 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
91 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
92 scalar for better error reporting.
93
941.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
95 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
96 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
97 the external filename encoding first.
98 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
99 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
100 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
101 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
102 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
103 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
104 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
105 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
106 error catching.
107
1081.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
4 - added configure script to detetc availability of some calls. 109 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
110 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
111 feedback yet).
5 - emulate fdatasync by fsync, pread/pwrite by unsafe read/write 112 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
6 and readahead by manual reading on platforms lacking those. 113 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
7 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick 114 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
8 from Linux::AIO. 115 from Linux::AIO.
9 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't 116 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
10 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well. 117 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
118 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
119 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
120 the fd to an fh.
121 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
122 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
123 properly encode your pathnames.
11 124
121.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005 1251.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
13 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles. 126 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
14 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so 127 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
15 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it. 128 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.

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