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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
93.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
10 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
11 not restore the file offset.
12 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
13 the names in various ways.
14 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
15 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
16 process. no more!
17 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
18
193.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
20 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
21 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
22 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
23
243.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
25 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
26 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
27
283.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
29 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
30 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
31
323.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
33 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
34 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
35
363.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
37 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
38 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
39 has added something to the group or not.
40
413.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
42 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
43 and decreased memory usage.
44 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
45 but seems more correct.
46 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
47 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
48 requiring a thread switch.
49 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
50 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
51
523.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
53 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
54
553.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
56 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
57 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
58 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
59
603.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
61 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
62 (sic!) versions.
63
643.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
65 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
66 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
67 is stupid.
68 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
69 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
70 not to get initialised properly.
71
723.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
73 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
74 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
75 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
76 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
77 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
78
793.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
80 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
81 - bring back working fchmod.
82 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
83 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
84
853.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
86 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
87 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
88 - do not try to link against -lrt.
89 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
90
913.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
92 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
93 - switched to using libeio.
94 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
95 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
96 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
97 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
98
992.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
100 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
101 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
102 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
103 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
104
1052.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
106 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
107 also display files given on the commandline.
108 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
109 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
110 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
111 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
112 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
113 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
114 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
115
1162.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
117 - added aio_sync.
118 - added aio_pathsync.
119 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
120
1212.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
122 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
123 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
124 (see the manpage for details).
125 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
126 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
127 - minor code cleanups.
128
1292.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
130 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
131 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
132 work sensibly for the very first time.
133
1342.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
135 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
136 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
137 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
138 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
139
1402.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
141 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
142 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
143 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
144 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
145 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
146 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
147 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
148 have a larger range then.
149 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
150 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
151 - readahead emulation now returns something.
152 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
153 (should never happen, though).
154 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
155 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
156 too many functions with crashing versions.
157
1582.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
159 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
160
1612.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
162 - added aio_rmtree.
163 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
164 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
165 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
166 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
167 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
168
1692.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
170 - added aio_load.
171
1722.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
173 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
174 or crashes.
175
1762.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
177 - minor doc updates.
178 - minor cleanups.
179 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
180 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
181
1822.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
183 - minor doc updates.
184 - added aio_readlink.
185 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
186 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
187 - reduced size of aio request structure.
188 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
189 do not leak request in that case, either.
190
1912.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
192 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
193 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
194 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
195 it would have to copy files manually.
196 - doc updates.
197 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
198 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
199 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
200 - some tuning applied to random places.
201 - add aio_mknod.
202
2032.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
204 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
205 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
206 - aio requests can be cancelled.
207 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
208 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
209 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
210 into composite requests.
211 - generator interface for groups.
212 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
213 - major documentation improvements.
214 - very minor bugfixes.
215 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
216 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
217 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
218 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
219 putting them onto the stack.
220 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
221 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
222 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
223 - warn about broken perl malloc.
224 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
225 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
226 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
227
2281.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
229 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
230
2311.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
232 - codename "jost"
233 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
234 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
235 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
236
2371.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
238 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
239 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
240
2411.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
242 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
243 in a runtime error.
244
2451.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
246 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
247 - added AnyEvent example.
248
2491.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
250 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
251 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
252 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
253 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
254 wasting memory).
255
2561.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
257 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
258 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
259 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
260 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
261 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
262
2631.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
264 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
265 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
266 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
267 - abort when the configure script fails.
268
2691.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
270 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
271 deadlocks.
272
2731.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
274 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
275 eating them.
276 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
277 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
278 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
279 length after reading.
280 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
281 from the parent.
282 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
283 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
284 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
285 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
286 scalar for better error reporting.
287
2881.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
289 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
290 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
291 the external filename encoding first.
292 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
293 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
294 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
295 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
296 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
297 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
298 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
299 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
300 error catching.
301
3021.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
303 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
304 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
305 feedback yet).
306 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
307 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
308 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
309 from Linux::AIO.
310 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
311 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
312 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
313 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
314 the fd to an fh.
315 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
316 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
317 properly encode your pathnames.
318
3191.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
320 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
321 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
322 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
323 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
324
3250.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
326 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
327 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
328 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
329 from Linux::AIO.
330 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
331 does not implement pread/pwrite).
332 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
333
3340.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
335 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
336 need it anyway.
337 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
338 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
339
3400.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
3 - added IO::AIO::flush. 341 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
342 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
4 343
50.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005 3440.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
6 - restructured manpage. 345 - restructured manpage.
7 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk. 346 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
8 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain 347 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain

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