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2 2
3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc. 3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4TODO: use feeder for aio_scandir. 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: aio_mincore?
9TODO: getxattr etc.?
10TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
5 11
62.0 12TODO: rewrite scandir etc. to take avdantage of IO::AIO::WD
13TODO: slowdown!!!! perl -Mblib bin/treescan -sq /root/src
14TODO: treescan using extra fds
15 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
16 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
17 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
18 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
19 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
20
214.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
22 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
23 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
24 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
25 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
26 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
27 a timeout occured at the same time.
28 - (libeio) added realpath.
29 - (libeio) added fallocate.
30 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
31 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
32 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
33
343.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
35 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
36
373.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
38 - ecb.h was missing.
39
403.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
41 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
42 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
43 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
44 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
45 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
46 transferred...)
47 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
48 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
49 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
50 pthread and fork in perl.
51 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
52 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
53 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
54 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
55
563.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
57 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
58 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
59 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
60 flags.
61
623.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
63 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
64 - support a max_idle value of 0.
65 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
66
673.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
68 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
69 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
70 - new treescan option: --grep.
71 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
72
733.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
74 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
75 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
76 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
77 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
78 funcitonality. ugh.
79
803.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
81 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
82 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
83 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
84 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
85 (openbsd 4.8).
86 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
87 had string-data.
88 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
89 them.
90 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
91 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
92 user-errors better.
93 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
94
953.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
96 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
97 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
98 Rasmus Andersson).
99 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
100 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
101 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
102 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
103 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
104
1053.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
106 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
107 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
108 kernel sources.
109 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
110 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
111 - clean up manpage.
112
1133.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
114 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
115 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
116 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
117 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
118 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
119 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
120
1213.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
122 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
123 - clarify cancel_subs description.
124 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
125 from the sendfile call.
126 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
127 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
128
1293.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
130 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
131 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
132 hash lookups.
133
1343.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
135 - use common::sense.
136 - use common schmorp.h header.
137 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
138 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
139 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
140
1413.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
142 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
143
1443.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
145 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
146 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
147 way. might help other os's too.
148
1493.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
150 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
151 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
152 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
153 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
154 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
155 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
156 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
157 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
158 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
159 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
160 but should not have been.
161 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
162 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
163
1643.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
165 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
166 rushed 3.22 release.
167
1683.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
169 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
170 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
171
1723.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
173 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
174 - install bin/treescan by default.
175 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
176 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
177 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
178 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
179 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
180 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
181 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
182
1833.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
184 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
185 not restore the file offset.
186 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
187 the names in various ways.
188 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
189 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
190 process. no more!
191 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
192
1933.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
194 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
195 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
196 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
197
1983.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
199 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
200 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
201
2023.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
203 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
204 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
205
2063.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
207 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
208 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
209
2103.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
211 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
212 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
213 has added something to the group or not.
214
2153.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
216 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
217 and decreased memory usage.
218 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
219 but seems more correct.
220 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
221 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
222 requiring a thread switch.
223 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
224 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
225
2263.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
227 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
228
2293.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
230 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
231 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
232 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
233
2343.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
235 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
236 (sic!) versions.
237
2383.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
239 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
240 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
241 is stupid.
242 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
243 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
244 not to get initialised properly.
245
2463.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
247 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
248 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
249 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
250 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
251 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
252
2533.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
254 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
255 - bring back working fchmod.
256 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
257 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
258
2593.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
260 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
261 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
262 - do not try to link against -lrt.
263 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
264
2653.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
266 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
267 - switched to using libeio.
268 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
269 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
270 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
271 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
272
2732.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
274 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
275 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
276 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
277 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
278
2792.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
280 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
281 also display files given on the commandline.
282 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
283 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
284 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
285 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
286 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
287 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
288 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
289
2902.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
291 - added aio_sync.
292 - added aio_pathsync.
293 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
294
2952.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
296 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
297 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
298 (see the manpage for details).
299 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
300 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
301 - minor code cleanups.
302
3032.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
304 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
305 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
306 work sensibly for the very first time.
307
3082.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
309 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
310 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
311 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
312 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
313
3142.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
315 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
316 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
317 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
318 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
319 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
320 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
321 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
322 have a larger range then.
323 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
324 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
325 - readahead emulation now returns something.
326 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
327 (should never happen, though).
328 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
329 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
330 too many functions with crashing versions.
331
3322.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
333 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
334
3352.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
336 - added aio_rmtree.
337 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
338 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
339 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
340 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
341 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
342
3432.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
344 - added aio_load.
345
3462.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
347 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
348 or crashes.
349
3502.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
351 - minor doc updates.
352 - minor cleanups.
353 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
354 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
355
3562.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
357 - minor doc updates.
358 - added aio_readlink.
359 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
360 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
361 - reduced size of aio request structure.
362 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
363 do not leak request in that case, either.
364
3652.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
366 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
367 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
368 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
369 it would have to copy files manually.
370 - doc updates.
371 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
372 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
373 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
374 - some tuning applied to random places.
375 - add aio_mknod.
376
3772.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
378 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
379 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
7 - aio requests can be cancelled. 380 - aio requests can be cancelled.
381 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
382 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
8 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped. 383 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
384 into composite requests.
9 - implement generator interface for groups. 385 - generator interface for groups.
10 - add aio_sleep mainly for benchmarking and debugging. 386 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
11 - major documentation improvements. 387 - major documentation improvements.
12 - very minor bugfixes. 388 - very minor bugfixes.
389 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
390 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
391 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
392 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
393 putting them onto the stack.
394 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
395 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
396 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
397 - warn about broken perl malloc.
398 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
399 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
400 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
13 401
141.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006 4021.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
15 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move. 403 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
16 404
171.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006 4051.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
51 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should 439 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
52 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones. 440 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
53 - abort when the configure script fails. 441 - abort when the configure script fails.
54 442
551.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005 4431.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
56 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause 444 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
57 deadlocks. 445 deadlocks.
58 446
591.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005 4471.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
60 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently 448 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
61 eating them. 449 eating them.

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