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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
8
93.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
10 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
11 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
12
133.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
14 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
15 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
16
173.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
18 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
19 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
20 has added something to the group or not.
21
223.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
23 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
24 and decreased memory usage.
25 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
26 but seems more correct.
27 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
28 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
29 requiring a thread switch.
30 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
31 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
32
333.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
34 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
35
363.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
37 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
38 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
39 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
40
413.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
42 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
43 (sic!) versions.
44
453.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
46 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
47 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
48 is stupid.
49 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
50 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
51 not to get initialised properly.
52
533.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
54 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
55 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
56 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
57 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
58 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
59
603.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
61 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
62 - bring back working fchmod.
63 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
64 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
65
663.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
67 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
68 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
69 - do not try to link against -lrt.
70 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
71
723.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
73 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
74 - switched to using libeio.
75 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
76 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
77 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
78 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
79
802.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
81 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
82 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
83 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
84 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
85
862.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
87 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
88 also display files given on the commandline.
89 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
90 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
91 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
92 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
93 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
94 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
95 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
96
972.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
98 - added aio_sync.
99 - added aio_pathsync.
100 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
101
1022.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
103 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
104 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
105 (see the manpage for details).
106 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
107 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
108 - minor code cleanups.
109
1102.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
111 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
112 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
113 work sensibly for the very first time.
114
1152.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
116 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
117 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
118 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
119 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
120
1212.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
122 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
123 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
124 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
125 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
126 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
127 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
128 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
129 have a larger range then.
130 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
131 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
132 - readahead emulation now returns something.
133 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
134 (should never happen, though).
135 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
136 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
137 too many functions with crashing versions.
138
1392.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
140 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
141
1422.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
143 - added aio_rmtree.
144 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
145 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
146 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
147 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
148 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
149
1502.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
151 - added aio_load.
152
1532.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
154 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
155 or crashes.
156
1572.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
158 - minor doc updates.
159 - minor cleanups.
160 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
161 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
162
1632.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
164 - minor doc updates.
165 - added aio_readlink.
166 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
167 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
168 - reduced size of aio request structure.
169 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
170 do not leak request in that case, either.
171
1722.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
173 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
174 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
175 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
176 it would have to copy files manually.
177 - doc updates.
178 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
179 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
180 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
181 - some tuning applied to random places.
182 - add aio_mknod.
183
1842.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
185 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
186 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
187 - aio requests can be cancelled.
188 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
189 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
190 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
191 into composite requests.
192 - generator interface for groups.
193 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
194 - major documentation improvements.
195 - very minor bugfixes.
196 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
197 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
198 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
199 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
200 putting them onto the stack.
201 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
202 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
203 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
204 - warn about broken perl malloc.
205 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
206 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
207 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
208
2091.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
210 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
211
2121.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
213 - codename "jost"
214 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
215 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
216 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
217
2181.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
219 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
220 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
221
2221.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
223 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
224 in a runtime error.
225
2261.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
227 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
228 - added AnyEvent example.
229
2301.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
231 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
232 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
233 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
234 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
235 wasting memory).
2 236
31.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005 2371.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
4 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir. 238 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
5 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile 239 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
6 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev 240 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
12 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should 246 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
13 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones. 247 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
14 - abort when the configure script fails. 248 - abort when the configure script fails.
15 249
161.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 2501.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
17 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause 251 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
18 deadlocks. 252 deadlocks.
19 253
201.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 2541.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
21 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 255 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
22 eating them. 256 eating them.

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