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Revision 1.150 by root, Sun May 11 19:11:05 2008 UTC

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2
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 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
10 - bring back working fchmod.
11
123.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
13 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
14 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
15 - do not try to link against -lrt.
16 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
17
183.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
19 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
20 - switched to using libeio.
21 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
22 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
23 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
24 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
25
262.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
27 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
28 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
29 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
30 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
31
322.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
33 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
34 also display files given on the commandline.
35 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
36 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
37 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
38 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
39 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
40 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
41 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
42
432.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
44 - added aio_sync.
45 - added aio_pathsync.
46 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
47
482.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
49 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
50 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
51 (see the manpage for details).
52 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
53 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
54 - minor code cleanups.
55
562.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
57 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
58 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
59 work sensibly for the very first time.
60
612.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
62 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
63 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
64 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
65 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
66
672.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
68 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
69 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
70 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
71 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
72 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
73 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
74 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
75 have a larger range then.
76 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
77 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
78 - readahead emulation now returns something.
79 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
80 (should never happen, though).
81 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
82 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
83 too many functions with crashing versions.
84
852.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
86 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
87
882.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
89 - added aio_rmtree.
90 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
91 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
92 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
93 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
94 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
95
962.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
97 - added aio_load.
98
992.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
100 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
101 or crashes.
102
1032.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
104 - minor doc updates.
105 - minor cleanups.
106 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
107 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
108
1092.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
110 - minor doc updates.
111 - added aio_readlink.
112 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
113 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
114 - reduced size of aio request structure.
115 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
116 do not leak request in that case, either.
117
1182.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
119 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
120 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
121 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
122 it would have to copy files manually.
123 - doc updates.
124 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
125 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
126 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
127 - some tuning applied to random places.
128 - add aio_mknod.
129
1302.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
131 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
132 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
133 - aio requests can be cancelled.
134 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
135 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
136 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
137 into composite requests.
138 - generator interface for groups.
139 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
140 - major documentation improvements.
141 - very minor bugfixes.
142 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
143 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
144 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
145 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
146 putting them onto the stack.
147 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
148 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
149 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
150 - warn about broken perl malloc.
151 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
152 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
153 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
154
1551.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
156 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
157
1581.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
159 - codename "jost"
160 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
161 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
162 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
163
1641.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
165 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
166 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
167
1681.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
169 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
170 in a runtime error.
171
1721.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
173 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
174 - added AnyEvent example.
175
1761.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
177 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
178 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
179 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
180 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
181 wasting memory).
182
1831.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
184 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
185 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
186 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
187 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
188 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
189
1901.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
191 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
192 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
193 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
194 - abort when the configure script fails.
195
1961.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
197 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
198 deadlocks.
199
2001.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
201 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
202 eating them.
203 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
204 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
205 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
206 length after reading.
207 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
208 from the parent.
209 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
210 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
211 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
212 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
213 scalar for better error reporting.
214
2151.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
216 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
217 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
218 the external filename encoding first.
219 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
220 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
221 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
222 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
223 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
224 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
225 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
226 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
227 error catching.
2 228
31.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005 2291.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
4 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls. 230 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
5 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing 231 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
6 feedback yet). 232 feedback yet).

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