--- IO-AIO/Changes 2005/08/17 03:52:20 1.36 +++ IO-AIO/Changes 2005/08/18 16:32:10 1.41 @@ -1,12 +1,28 @@ Revision history for IO::AIO -1.3 +1.5 + - create the aio threads on demand only. + - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should + be C89 compatible, but no guarentees for future ones. + +1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 + - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause + deadlocks. + +1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently eating them. - - use a different, less efficient but quicker and hopefully more robust - strategy, which allows for better reentrancy when forking in aio - callbacks. - - fix a segfault that could occur when threads were being reaped. + - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback + invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes. + - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong + length after reading. + - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests + from the parent. + - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon + (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes. + - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write. + - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data + scalar for better error reporting. 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.