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2 2
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? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8TODO: fallocate, if it wouldn't be so useless.
9TODO: aio_mincore?
10TODO: getxattr etc.?
11TODO: MS_xxx, posix_fadvise, posix_madvise
12TODO: realpath
13
14TODO: remove fork support, eio_init can be called multiple times maybe
15TODO: "this might change"
16 - (libeio) added realpath.
17 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke it.
18
193.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
20 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
21
223.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
23 - ecb.h was missing.
24
253.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
26 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
27 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
28 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
29 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
30 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
31 transferred...)
32 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
33 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
34 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
35 pthread and fork in perl.
36 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
37 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
38 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
39 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
40
413.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
42 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
43 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
44 - add lots of newre POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
45 flags.
46
473.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
48 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
49 - support a max_idle value of 0.
50 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
51
523.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
53 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
54 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
55 - new treescan option: --grep.
56 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
57
583.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
59 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
60 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
61 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
62 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
63 funcitonality. ugh.
64
653.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
66 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
67 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
68 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
69 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
70 (openbsd 4.8).
71 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
72 had string-data.
73 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
74 them.
75 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
76 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
77 user-errors better.
78 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
79
803.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
81 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
82 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
83 Rasmus Andersson).
84 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
85 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
86 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
87 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
88 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
89
903.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
91 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
92 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
93 kernel sources.
94 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
95 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
96 - clean up manpage.
97
983.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
99 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
100 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
101 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
102 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
103 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
104 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
105
1063.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
107 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
108 - clarify cancel_subs description.
109 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
110 from the sendfile call.
111 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
112 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
113
1143.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
115 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
116 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
117 hash lookups.
118
1193.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
120 - use common::sense.
121 - use common schmorp.h header.
122 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
123 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
124 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
125
1263.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
127 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
128
1293.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
130 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
131 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
132 way. might help other os's too.
133
1343.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
135 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
136 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
137 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
138 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
139 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
140 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
141 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
142 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
143 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
144 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
145 but should not have been.
146 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
147 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
148
1493.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
150 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
151 rushed 3.22 release.
152
1533.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
154 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
155 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
156
1573.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
158 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
159 - install bin/treescan by default.
160 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
161 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
162 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
163 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
164 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
165 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
166 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
167
1683.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
169 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
170 not restore the file offset.
171 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
172 the names in various ways.
173 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
174 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
175 process. no more!
176 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
177
1783.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
179 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
180 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
181 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
182
1833.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
184 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
185 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
186
1873.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
188 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
189 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
190
1913.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
192 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
193 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
194
1953.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
196 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
197 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
198 has added something to the group or not.
199
2003.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
201 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
202 and decreased memory usage.
203 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
204 but seems more correct.
205 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
206 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
207 requiring a thread switch.
208 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
209 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
210
2113.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
212 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
213
2143.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
215 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
216 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
217 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
218
2193.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
220 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
221 (sic!) versions.
222
2233.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
224 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
225 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
226 is stupid.
227 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
228 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
229 not to get initialised properly.
230
2313.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
232 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
233 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
234 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
235 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
236 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
237
2383.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
239 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
240 - bring back working fchmod.
241 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
242 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
243
2443.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
245 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
246 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
247 - do not try to link against -lrt.
248 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
249
2503.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
251 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
252 - switched to using libeio.
253 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
254 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
255 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
256 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
257
2582.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
259 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
260 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
261 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
262 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
263
2642.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
265 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
266 also display files given on the commandline.
267 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
268 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
269 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
270 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
271 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
272 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
273 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
274
2752.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
276 - added aio_sync.
277 - added aio_pathsync.
278 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
279
2802.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
281 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
282 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
283 (see the manpage for details).
284 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
285 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
286 - minor code cleanups.
287
2882.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
289 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
290 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
291 work sensibly for the very first time.
292
2932.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
294 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
295 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
296 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
297 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
298
2992.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
300 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
301 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
302 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
303 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
304 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
305 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
306 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
307 have a larger range then.
308 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
309 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
310 - readahead emulation now returns something.
311 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
312 (should never happen, though).
313 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
314 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
315 too many functions with crashing versions.
316
3172.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
318 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
319
3202.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
321 - added aio_rmtree.
322 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
323 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
324 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
325 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
326 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
327
3282.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
329 - added aio_load.
330
3312.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
332 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
333 or crashes.
334
3352.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
336 - minor doc updates.
337 - minor cleanups.
338 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
339 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
340
3412.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
342 - minor doc updates.
343 - added aio_readlink.
344 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
345 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
346 - reduced size of aio request structure.
347 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
348 do not leak request in that case, either.
349
3502.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
351 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
352 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
353 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
354 it would have to copy files manually.
355 - doc updates.
356 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
357 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
358 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
359 - some tuning applied to random places.
360 - add aio_mknod.
361
3622.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
363 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
364 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
365 - aio requests can be cancelled.
366 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
367 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
368 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
369 into composite requests.
370 - generator interface for groups.
371 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
372 - major documentation improvements.
373 - very minor bugfixes.
374 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
375 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
376 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
377 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
378 putting them onto the stack.
379 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
380 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
381 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
382 - warn about broken perl malloc.
383 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
384 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
385 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
386
3871.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
388 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
389
3901.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
391 - codename "jost"
392 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
393 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
394 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
395
3961.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
397 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
398 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
399
4001.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
401 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
402 in a runtime error.
403
4041.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
405 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
406 - added AnyEvent example.
407
4081.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
409 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
410 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
411 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
412 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
413 wasting memory).
414
4151.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
416 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
417 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
418 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
419 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
420 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
421
4221.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
423 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
424 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
425 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
426 - abort when the configure script fails.
427
4281.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
429 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
430 deadlocks.
431
4321.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
433 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
434 eating them.
435 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
436 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
437 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
438 length after reading.
439 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
440 from the parent.
441 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
442 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
443 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
444 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
445 scalar for better error reporting.
446
4471.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
448 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
449 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
450 the external filename encoding first.
451 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
452 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
453 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
454 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
455 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
456 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
457 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
458 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
459 error catching.
460
4611.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
462 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
463 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
464 feedback yet).
465 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
466 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
467 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
468 from Linux::AIO.
469 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
470 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
471 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
472 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
473 the fd to an fh.
474 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
475 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
476 properly encode your pathnames.
477
4781.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
479 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
480 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
481 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
482 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
483
4840.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
485 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
486 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
487 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
488 from Linux::AIO.
489 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
490 does not implement pread/pwrite).
491 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
492
4930.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
494 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
495 need it anyway.
496 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
497 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
498
4990.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
500 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
501 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
502
5030.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
3 - restructured manpage. 504 - restructured manpage.
505 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
506 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
507 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
4 508
50.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005 5090.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
6 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. 510 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
7 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread 511 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
8 communications for most requests and responses. 512 communications for most requests and responses.

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