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Revision 1.5 by root, Sun Jul 10 21:04:24 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.108 by root, Wed Nov 8 02:01:02 2006 UTC

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2 2
3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree/rmtree
5TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first?
6TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
7
8 - minor doc updates.
9 - minor cleanups.
10 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
11
122.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
13 - minor doc updates.
14 - added aio_readlink.
15 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
16 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
17 - reduced size of aio request structure.
18 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
19 do not leak request in that case, either.
20
212.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
22 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
23 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
24 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
25 it would have to copy files manually.
26 - doc updates.
27 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
28 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
29 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
30 - some tuning applied to random places.
31 - add aio_mknod.
32
332.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
34 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
35 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
36 - aio requests can be cancelled.
37 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
38 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
39 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
40 into composite requests.
41 - generator interface for groups.
42 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
43 - major documentation improvements.
44 - very minor bugfixes.
45 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
46 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
47 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
48 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
49 putting them onto the stack.
50 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
51 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
52 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
53 - warn about broken perl malloc.
54 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
55 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
56 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
57
581.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
59 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
60
611.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
62 - codename "jost"
63 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
64 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
65 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
66
671.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
68 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
69 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
70
711.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
72 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
73 in a runtime error.
74
751.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
76 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
77 - added AnyEvent example.
78
791.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
80 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
81 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
82 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
83 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
84 wasting memory).
85
861.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
87 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
88 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
89 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
90 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
91 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
92
931.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
94 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
95 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
96 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
97 - abort when the configure script fails.
98
991.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
100 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
101 deadlocks.
102
1031.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
104 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
105 eating them.
106 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
107 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
108 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
109 length after reading.
110 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
111 from the parent.
112 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
113 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
114 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
115 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
116 scalar for better error reporting.
117
1181.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
119 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
120 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
121 the external filename encoding first.
122 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
123 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
124 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
125 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
126 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
127 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
128 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
129 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
130 error catching.
131
1321.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
133 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
134 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
135 feedback yet).
136 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
137 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
138 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
139 from Linux::AIO.
140 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
141 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
142 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
143 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
144 the fd to an fh.
145 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
146 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
147 properly encode your pathnames.
148
1491.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
150 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
151 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
152 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
153 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
154
1550.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
156 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
157 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
158 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
159 from Linux::AIO.
160 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
161 does not implement pread/pwrite).
162 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
163
1640.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
165 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
166 need it anyway.
167 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
168 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
169
1700.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
171 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
172 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
173
1740.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
3 - restructured manpage. 175 - restructured manpage.
176 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
177 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
178 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
4 179
50.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005 1800.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
6 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. 181 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
7 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread 182 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
8 communications for most requests and responses. 183 communications for most requests and responses.

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