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Revision 1.29 by root, Sun Aug 7 03:27:48 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.54 by root, Wed Sep 7 17:12:40 2005 UTC

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3 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
4 garbage in their that is not installed on typical systems
5 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
6 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
7 wasting memory).
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91.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
10 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
11 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
12 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
13 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
14 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
15
161.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
17 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
18 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
19 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
20 - abort when the configure script fails.
21
221.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
23 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
24 deadlocks.
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261.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
27 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
28 eating them.
29 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
30 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
31 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
32 length after reading.
33 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
34 from the parent.
35 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
36 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
37 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
38 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
39 scalar for better error reporting.
40
411.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
42 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
43 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
44 the external filename encoding first.
45 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
46 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
47 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
48 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
49 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
50 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
51 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
52 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
53 error catching.
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31.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005 551.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
4 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls. 56 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
5 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing 57 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
6 feedback yet). 58 feedback yet).

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