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Revision 1.145 by root, Sat May 10 22:47:34 2008 UTC

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31.5 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
93.0
10 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
11 - switched to using libeio.
12 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
13 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
14 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
15 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
16
172.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
18 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
19 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
20 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
21 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
22
232.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
24 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
25 also display files given on the commandline.
26 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
27 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
28 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
29 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
30 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
31 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
32 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
33
342.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
35 - added aio_sync.
36 - added aio_pathsync.
37 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
38
392.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
40 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
41 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
42 (see the manpage for details).
43 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
44 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
45 - minor code cleanups.
46
472.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
48 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
49 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
50 work sensibly for the very first time.
51
522.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
53 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
54 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
55 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
56 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
57
582.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
59 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
60 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
61 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
62 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
63 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
64 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
65 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
66 have a larger range then.
67 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
68 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
69 - readahead emulation now returns something.
70 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
71 (should never happen, though).
72 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
73 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
74 too many functions with crashing versions.
75
762.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
77 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
78
792.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
80 - added aio_rmtree.
81 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
82 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
83 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
84 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
85 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
86
872.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
88 - added aio_load.
89
902.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
91 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
92 or crashes.
93
942.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
95 - minor doc updates.
96 - minor cleanups.
97 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
98 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
99
1002.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
101 - minor doc updates.
102 - added aio_readlink.
103 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
104 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
105 - reduced size of aio request structure.
106 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
107 do not leak request in that case, either.
108
1092.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
110 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
111 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
112 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
113 it would have to copy files manually.
114 - doc updates.
115 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
116 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
117 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
118 - some tuning applied to random places.
119 - add aio_mknod.
120
1212.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
122 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
123 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
124 - aio requests can be cancelled.
125 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
126 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
127 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
128 into composite requests.
129 - generator interface for groups.
130 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
131 - major documentation improvements.
132 - very minor bugfixes.
133 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
134 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
135 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
136 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
137 putting them onto the stack.
138 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
139 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
140 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
141 - warn about broken perl malloc.
142 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
143 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
144 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
145
1461.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
147 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
148
1491.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
150 - codename "jost"
151 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
152 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
153 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
154
1551.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
156 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
157 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
158
1591.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
160 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
161 in a runtime error.
162
1631.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
164 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
165 - added AnyEvent example.
166
1671.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
168 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
169 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
170 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
171 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
172 wasting memory).
173
1741.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
175 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
176 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
177 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
178 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
179 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
180
1811.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
4 - create the aio threads on demand only. 182 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
5 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should 183 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
6 be C89 compatible, but no guarentees for future ones. 184 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
185 - abort when the configure script fails.
7 186
81.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 1871.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
9 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause 188 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
10 deadlocks. 189 deadlocks.
11 190
121.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 1911.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
13 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 192 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
14 eating them. 193 eating them.

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