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Revision: 1.117
Committed: Mon Jan 22 15:56:03 2007 UTC (17 years, 4 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
5 TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown? should simply stat/open first?
6 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
7 TODO: fix setsig
8
9 - added aio_rmtree.
10 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
11 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
12 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
13 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
14
15 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
16 - added aio_load.
17
18 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
19 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
20 or crashes.
21
22 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
23 - minor doc updates.
24 - minor cleanups.
25 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
26 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
27
28 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
29 - minor doc updates.
30 - added aio_readlink.
31 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
32 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
33 - reduced size of aio request structure.
34 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
35 do not leak request in that case, either.
36
37 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
38 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
39 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
40 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
41 it would have to copy files manually.
42 - doc updates.
43 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
44 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
45 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
46 - some tuning applied to random places.
47 - add aio_mknod.
48
49 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
50 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
51 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
52 - aio requests can be cancelled.
53 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
54 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
55 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
56 into composite requests.
57 - generator interface for groups.
58 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
59 - major documentation improvements.
60 - very minor bugfixes.
61 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
62 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
63 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
64 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
65 putting them onto the stack.
66 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
67 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
68 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
69 - warn about broken perl malloc.
70 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
71 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
72 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
73
74 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
75 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
76
77 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
78 - codename "jost"
79 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
80 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
81 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
82
83 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
84 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
85 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
86
87 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
88 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
89 in a runtime error.
90
91 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
92 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
93 - added AnyEvent example.
94
95 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
96 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
97 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
98 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
99 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
100 wasting memory).
101
102 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
103 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
104 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
105 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
106 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
107 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
108
109 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
110 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
111 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
112 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
113 - abort when the configure script fails.
114
115 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
116 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
117 deadlocks.
118
119 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
120 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
121 eating them.
122 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
123 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
124 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
125 length after reading.
126 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
127 from the parent.
128 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
129 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
130 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
131 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
132 scalar for better error reporting.
133
134 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
135 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
136 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
137 the external filename encoding first.
138 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
139 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
140 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
141 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
142 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
143 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
144 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
145 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
146 error catching.
147
148 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
149 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
150 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
151 feedback yet).
152 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
153 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
154 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
155 from Linux::AIO.
156 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
157 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
158 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
159 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
160 the fd to an fh.
161 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
162 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
163 properly encode your pathnames.
164
165 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
166 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
167 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
168 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
169 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
170
171 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
172 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
173 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
174 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
175 from Linux::AIO.
176 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
177 does not implement pread/pwrite).
178 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
179
180 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
181 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
182 need it anyway.
183 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
184 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
185
186 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
187 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
188 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
189
190 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
191 - restructured manpage.
192 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
193 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
194 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
195
196 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
197 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
198 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
199 communications for most requests and responses.
200
201 0.1
202 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
203