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Revision 1.136 by root, Sun Mar 30 06:31:49 2008 UTC

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31.3 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
92.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
10 - added aio_sync.
11 - added aio_pathsync.
12 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
13
142.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
15 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
16 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
17 (see the manpage for details).
18 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
19 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
20 - minor code cleanups.
21
222.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
23 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
24 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
25 work sensibly for the very first time.
26
272.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
28 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
29 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
30 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
31 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
32
332.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
34 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
35 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
36 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
37 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
38 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
39 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
40 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
41 have a larger range then.
42 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
43 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
44 - readahead emulation now returns something.
45 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
46 (should never happen, though).
47 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
48 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
49 too many functions with crashing versions.
50
512.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
52 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
53
542.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
55 - added aio_rmtree.
56 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
57 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
58 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
59 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
60 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
61
622.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
63 - added aio_load.
64
652.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
66 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
67 or crashes.
68
692.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
70 - minor doc updates.
71 - minor cleanups.
72 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
73 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
74
752.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
76 - minor doc updates.
77 - added aio_readlink.
78 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
79 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
80 - reduced size of aio request structure.
81 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
82 do not leak request in that case, either.
83
842.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
85 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
86 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
87 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
88 it would have to copy files manually.
89 - doc updates.
90 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
91 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
92 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
93 - some tuning applied to random places.
94 - add aio_mknod.
95
962.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
97 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
98 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
99 - aio requests can be cancelled.
100 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
101 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
102 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
103 into composite requests.
104 - generator interface for groups.
105 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
106 - major documentation improvements.
107 - very minor bugfixes.
108 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
109 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
110 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
111 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
112 putting them onto the stack.
113 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
114 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
115 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
116 - warn about broken perl malloc.
117 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
118 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
119 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
120
1211.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
122 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
123
1241.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
125 - codename "jost"
126 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
127 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
128 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
129
1301.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
131 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
132 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
133
1341.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
135 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
136 in a runtime error.
137
1381.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
139 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
140 - added AnyEvent example.
141
1421.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
143 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
144 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
145 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
146 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
147 wasting memory).
148
1491.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
150 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
151 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
152 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
153 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
154 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
155
1561.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
157 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
158 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
159 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
160 - abort when the configure script fails.
161
1621.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
163 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
164 deadlocks.
165
1661.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
4 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 167 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
5 eating them. 168 eating them.
6 - forking while in an atfork handler is now supported, although 169 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
7 I am pretty sure some pthread implementations will barf - don't 170 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
8 fork in an AIO callback if that is a concern for you, or synchronize 171 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
9 for yourself by clearing the request queue first. 172 length after reading.
173 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
174 from the parent.
175 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
176 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
177 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
178 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
179 scalar for better error reporting.
10 180
111.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005 1811.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
12 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris. 182 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
13 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to 183 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
14 the external filename encoding first. 184 the external filename encoding first.

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