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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? (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?
10
11TODO: MS_xxx, posix_fadvise
12 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
13 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
14 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
15
163.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
17 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
18 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
19 - add lots of newre POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
20 flags.
21
223.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
23 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
24 - support a max_idle value of 0.
25 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
26
273.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
28 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
29 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
30 - new treescan option: --grep.
31 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
32
333.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
34 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
35 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
36 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
37 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
38 funcitonality. ugh.
39
403.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
41 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
42 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
43 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
44 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
45 (openbsd 4.8).
46 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
47 had string-data.
48 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
49 them.
50 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
51 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
52 user-errors better.
53 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
54
553.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
56 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
57 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
58 Rasmus Andersson).
59 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
60 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
61 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
62 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
63 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
64
653.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
66 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
67 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
68 kernel sources.
69 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
70 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
71 - clean up manpage.
72
733.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
74 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
75 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
76 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
77 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
78 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
79 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
80
813.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
82 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
83 - clarify cancel_subs description.
84 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
85 from the sendfile call.
86 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
87 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
88
893.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
90 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
91 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
92 hash lookups.
93
943.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
95 - use common::sense.
96 - use common schmorp.h header.
97 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
98 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
99 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
100
1013.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
102 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
103
1043.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
105 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
106 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
107 way. might help other os's too.
108
1093.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
110 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
111 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
112 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
113 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
114 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
115 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
116 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
117 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
118 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
119 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
120 but should not have been.
121 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
122 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
123
1243.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
125 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
126 rushed 3.22 release.
127
1283.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
129 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
130 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
131
1323.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
133 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
134 - install bin/treescan by default.
135 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
136 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
137 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
138 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
139 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
140 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
141 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
142
1433.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
144 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
145 not restore the file offset.
146 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
147 the names in various ways.
148 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
149 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
150 process. no more!
151 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
152
1533.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
154 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
155 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
156 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
157
1583.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
159 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
160 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
161
1623.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
163 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
164 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
165
1663.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
167 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
168 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
169
1703.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
171 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
172 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
173 has added something to the group or not.
174
1753.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
176 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
177 and decreased memory usage.
178 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
179 but seems more correct.
180 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
181 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
182 requiring a thread switch.
183 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
184 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
185
1863.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
187 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
188
1893.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
190 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
191 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
192 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
193
1943.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
195 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
196 (sic!) versions.
197
1983.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
199 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
200 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
201 is stupid.
202 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
203 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
204 not to get initialised properly.
205
2063.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
207 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
208 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
209 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
210 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
211 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
212
2133.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
214 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
215 - bring back working fchmod.
216 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
217 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
218
2193.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
220 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
221 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
222 - do not try to link against -lrt.
223 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
224
2253.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
226 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
227 - switched to using libeio.
228 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
229 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
230 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
231 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
232
2332.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
234 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
235 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
236 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
237 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
238
2392.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
240 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
241 also display files given on the commandline.
242 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
243 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
244 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
245 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
246 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
247 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
248 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
249
2502.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
251 - added aio_sync.
252 - added aio_pathsync.
253 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
254
2552.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
256 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
257 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
258 (see the manpage for details).
259 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
260 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
261 - minor code cleanups.
262
2632.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
264 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
265 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
266 work sensibly for the very first time.
267
2682.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
269 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
270 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
271 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
272 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
273
2742.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
275 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
276 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
277 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
278 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
279 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
280 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
281 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
282 have a larger range then.
283 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
284 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
285 - readahead emulation now returns something.
286 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
287 (should never happen, though).
288 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
289 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
290 too many functions with crashing versions.
291
2922.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
293 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
294
2952.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
296 - added aio_rmtree.
297 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
298 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
299 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
300 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
301 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
302
3032.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
304 - added aio_load.
305
3062.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
307 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
308 or crashes.
309
3102.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
311 - minor doc updates.
312 - minor cleanups.
313 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
314 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
315
3162.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
317 - minor doc updates.
318 - added aio_readlink.
319 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
320 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
321 - reduced size of aio request structure.
322 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
323 do not leak request in that case, either.
324
3252.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
326 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
327 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
328 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
329 it would have to copy files manually.
330 - doc updates.
331 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
332 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
333 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
334 - some tuning applied to random places.
335 - add aio_mknod.
336
3372.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
338 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
339 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
340 - aio requests can be cancelled.
341 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
342 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
343 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
344 into composite requests.
345 - generator interface for groups.
346 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
347 - major documentation improvements.
348 - very minor bugfixes.
349 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
350 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
351 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
352 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
353 putting them onto the stack.
354 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
355 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
356 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
357 - warn about broken perl malloc.
358 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
359 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
360 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
361
3621.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
363 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
364
3651.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
366 - codename "jost"
367 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
368 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
369 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
370
3711.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
372 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
373 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
374
3751.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
376 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
377 in a runtime error.
378
3791.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
380 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
381 - added AnyEvent example.
382
3831.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
384 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
385 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
386 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
387 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
388 wasting memory).
389
3901.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
391 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
392 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
393 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
394 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
395 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
396
3971.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
398 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
399 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
400 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
401 - abort when the configure script fails.
402
4031.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
404 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
405 deadlocks.
406
4071.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
408 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
409 eating them.
410 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
411 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
412 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
413 length after reading.
414 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
415 from the parent.
416 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
417 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
418 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
419 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
420 scalar for better error reporting.
421
4221.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
423 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
424 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
425 the external filename encoding first.
426 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
427 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
428 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
429 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
430 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
431 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
432 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
433 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
434 error catching.
2 435
31.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005 4361.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
4 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls. 437 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
5 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing 438 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
6 feedback yet). 439 feedback yet).

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