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Revision 1.86 by root, Tue Oct 24 17:22:17 2006 UTC

1Revision history for IO::AIO 1Revision history for IO::AIO
2 2
3TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
3 4
52.0
6 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
7 - aio requests can be cancelled.
8 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
9 - aio requests can have choose 9 priorities.
10 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
11 into composite requests.
12 - generator interface for groups.
13 - major documentation improvements.
14 - very minor bugfixes.
15 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
16 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
17 - deprecated max_outstanding.
18 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
19 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
20 putting them onto the stack.
21 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
22 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
23 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
24
251.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
26 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
27
281.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
29 - codename "jost"
30 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
31 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
32 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
33
341.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
35 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
36 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
37
381.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
39 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
40 in a runtime error.
41
421.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
43 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
44 - added AnyEvent example.
45
461.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
47 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
48 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
49 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
50 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
51 wasting memory).
52
531.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
54 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
55 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
56 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
57 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
58 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
59
601.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
61 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
62 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
63 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
64 - abort when the configure script fails.
65
661.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
67 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
68 deadlocks.
69
701.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
71 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
72 eating them.
73 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
74 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
75 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
76 length after reading.
77 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
78 from the parent.
79 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
80 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
81 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
82 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
83 scalar for better error reporting.
84
851.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
86 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
87 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
88 the external filename encoding first.
89 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
90 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
91 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
92 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
93 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
94 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
95 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
96 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
97 error catching.
98
991.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
100 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
101 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
102 feedback yet).
103 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
104 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
105 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
106 from Linux::AIO.
107 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
108 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
109 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
110 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
111 the fd to an fh.
112 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
113 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
114 properly encode your pathnames.
115
1161.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
117 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
118 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
119 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
120 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
121
1220.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
123 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
124 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
125 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
126 from Linux::AIO.
127 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
128 does not implement pread/pwrite).
129 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
130
1310.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
132 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
133 need it anyway.
134 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
135 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
136
1370.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
138 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
139 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
140
1410.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
142 - restructured manpage.
143 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
144 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
145 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
146
1470.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
4 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. 148 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
5 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread 149 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
6 communications. 150 communications for most requests and responses.
7 151
80.1 1520.1
9 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar. 153 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
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