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Revision: 1.103
Committed: Mon Oct 30 23:42:27 2006 UTC (17 years, 6 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree/rmtree
5 TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first?
6
7 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
8 - minor doc updates.
9 - added aio_readlink.
10 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
11 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
12
13 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
14 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
15 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
16 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
17 it would have to copy files manually.
18 - doc updates.
19 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
20 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
21 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
22 - some tuning applied to random places.
23 - add aio_mknod.
24
25 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
26 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
27 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
28 - aio requests can be cancelled.
29 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
30 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
31 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
32 into composite requests.
33 - generator interface for groups.
34 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
35 - major documentation improvements.
36 - very minor bugfixes.
37 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
38 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
39 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
40 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
41 putting them onto the stack.
42 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
43 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
44 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
45 - warn about broken perl malloc.
46 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
47 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
48 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
49
50 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
51 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
52
53 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
54 - codename "jost"
55 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
56 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
57 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
58
59 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
60 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
61 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
62
63 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
64 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
65 in a runtime error.
66
67 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
68 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
69 - added AnyEvent example.
70
71 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
72 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
73 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
74 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
75 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
76 wasting memory).
77
78 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
79 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
80 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
81 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
82 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
83 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
84
85 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
86 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
87 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
88 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
89 - abort when the configure script fails.
90
91 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
92 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
93 deadlocks.
94
95 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
96 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
97 eating them.
98 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
99 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
100 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
101 length after reading.
102 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
103 from the parent.
104 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
105 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
106 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
107 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
108 scalar for better error reporting.
109
110 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
111 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
112 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
113 the external filename encoding first.
114 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
115 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
116 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
117 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
118 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
119 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
120 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
121 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
122 error catching.
123
124 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
125 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
126 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
127 feedback yet).
128 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
129 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
130 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
131 from Linux::AIO.
132 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
133 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
134 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
135 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
136 the fd to an fh.
137 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
138 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
139 properly encode your pathnames.
140
141 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
142 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
143 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
144 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
145 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
146
147 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
148 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
149 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
150 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
151 from Linux::AIO.
152 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
153 does not implement pread/pwrite).
154 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
155
156 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
157 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
158 need it anyway.
159 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
160 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
161
162 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
163 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
164 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
165
166 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
167 - restructured manpage.
168 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
169 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
170 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
171
172 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
173 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
174 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
175 communications for most requests and responses.
176
177 0.1
178 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
179