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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
4 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
5 TODO: vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
6 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
7 TODO: aio_mincore?
8 TODO: getxattr etc.?
9 TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
10 TODO: emulation for splice?
11 TODO: eio_mmap|mlock|munmap|splice...
12
13 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
14
15 4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
16 - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
17 it to malfunctiobn for paths.
18 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
19 extents.
20 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
21 trash fiemap input arguments.
22 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
23 set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
24 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
25 truncates segment count if a file.
26 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
27 to quick overview.
28 - splice can corrupt data.
29 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
30 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
31 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
32 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
33
34 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
35 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
36 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
37 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
38 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
39 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
40 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
41
42 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
43 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
44 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
45 - new request aio_seek.
46 - new request aio_fiemap.
47 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
48
49 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
50 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
51 instead of -1.
52 - port to c89.
53
54 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
55 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
56
57 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
58 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
59 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
60 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
61 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
62 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
63 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
64 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
65 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
66 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
67 in aio_scandir and treescan.
68 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
69 - added --progress switch to treescan.
70
71 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
72 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
73 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
74 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
75 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
76 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
77 a timeout occured at the same time.
78 - (libeio) added realpath.
79 - (libeio) added fallocate.
80 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
81 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
82 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
83
84 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
85 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
86
87 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
88 - ecb.h was missing.
89
90 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
91 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
92 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
93 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
94 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
95 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
96 transferred...)
97 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
98 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
99 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
100 pthread and fork in perl.
101 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
102 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
103 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
104 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
105
106 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
107 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
108 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
109 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
110 flags.
111
112 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
113 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
114 - support a max_idle value of 0.
115 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
116
117 3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
118 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
119 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
120 - new treescan option: --grep.
121 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
122
123 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
124 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
125 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
126 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
127 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
128 funcitonality. ugh.
129
130 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
131 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
132 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
133 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
134 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
135 (openbsd 4.8).
136 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
137 had string-data.
138 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
139 them.
140 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
141 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
142 user-errors better.
143 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
144
145 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
146 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
147 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
148 Rasmus Andersson).
149 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
150 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
151 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
152 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
153 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
154
155 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
156 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
157 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
158 kernel sources.
159 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
160 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
161 - clean up manpage.
162
163 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
164 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
165 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
166 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
167 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
168 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
169 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
170
171 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
172 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
173 - clarify cancel_subs description.
174 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
175 from the sendfile call.
176 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
177 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
178
179 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
180 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
181 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
182 hash lookups.
183
184 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
185 - use common::sense.
186 - use common schmorp.h header.
187 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
188 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
189 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
190
191 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
192 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
193
194 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
195 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
196 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
197 way. might help other os's too.
198
199 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
200 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
201 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
202 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
203 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
204 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
205 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
206 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
207 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
208 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
209 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
210 but should not have been.
211 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
212 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
213
214 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
215 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
216 rushed 3.22 release.
217
218 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
219 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
220 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
221
222 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
223 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
224 - install bin/treescan by default.
225 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
226 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
227 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
228 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
229 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
230 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
231 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
232
233 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
234 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
235 not restore the file offset.
236 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
237 the names in various ways.
238 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
239 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
240 process. no more!
241 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
242
243 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
244 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
245 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
246 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
247
248 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
249 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
250 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
251
252 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
253 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
254 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
255
256 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
257 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
258 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
259
260 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
261 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
262 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
263 has added something to the group or not.
264
265 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
266 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
267 and decreased memory usage.
268 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
269 but seems more correct.
270 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
271 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
272 requiring a thread switch.
273 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
274 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
275
276 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
277 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
278
279 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
280 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
281 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
282 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
283
284 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
285 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
286 (sic!) versions.
287
288 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
289 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
290 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
291 is stupid.
292 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
293 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
294 not to get initialised properly.
295
296 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
297 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
298 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
299 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
300 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
301 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
302
303 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
304 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
305 - bring back working fchmod.
306 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
307 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
308
309 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
310 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
311 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
312 - do not try to link against -lrt.
313 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
314
315 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
316 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
317 - switched to using libeio.
318 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
319 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
320 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
321 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
322
323 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
324 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
325 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
326 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
327 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
328
329 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
330 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
331 also display files given on the commandline.
332 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
333 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
334 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
335 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
336 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
337 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
338 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
339
340 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
341 - added aio_sync.
342 - added aio_pathsync.
343 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
344
345 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
346 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
347 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
348 (see the manpage for details).
349 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
350 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
351 - minor code cleanups.
352
353 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
354 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
355 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
356 work sensibly for the very first time.
357
358 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
359 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
360 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
361 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
362 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
363
364 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
365 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
366 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
367 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
368 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
369 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
370 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
371 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
372 have a larger range then.
373 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
374 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
375 - readahead emulation now returns something.
376 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
377 (should never happen, though).
378 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
379 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
380 too many functions with crashing versions.
381
382 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
383 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
384
385 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
386 - added aio_rmtree.
387 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
388 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
389 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
390 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
391 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
392
393 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
394 - added aio_load.
395
396 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
397 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
398 or crashes.
399
400 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
401 - minor doc updates.
402 - minor cleanups.
403 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
404 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
405
406 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
407 - minor doc updates.
408 - added aio_readlink.
409 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
410 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
411 - reduced size of aio request structure.
412 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
413 do not leak request in that case, either.
414
415 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
416 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
417 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
418 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
419 it would have to copy files manually.
420 - doc updates.
421 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
422 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
423 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
424 - some tuning applied to random places.
425 - add aio_mknod.
426
427 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
428 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
429 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
430 - aio requests can be cancelled.
431 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
432 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
433 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
434 into composite requests.
435 - generator interface for groups.
436 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
437 - major documentation improvements.
438 - very minor bugfixes.
439 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
440 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
441 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
442 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
443 putting them onto the stack.
444 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
445 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
446 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
447 - warn about broken perl malloc.
448 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
449 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
450 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
451
452 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
453 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
454
455 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
456 - codename "jost"
457 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
458 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
459 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
460
461 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
462 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
463 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
464
465 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
466 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
467 in a runtime error.
468
469 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
470 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
471 - added AnyEvent example.
472
473 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
474 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
475 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
476 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
477 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
478 wasting memory).
479
480 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
481 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
482 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
483 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
484 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
485 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
486
487 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
488 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
489 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
490 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
491 - abort when the configure script fails.
492
493 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
494 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
495 deadlocks.
496
497 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
498 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
499 eating them.
500 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
501 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
502 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
503 length after reading.
504 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
505 from the parent.
506 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
507 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
508 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
509 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
510 scalar for better error reporting.
511
512 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
513 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
514 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
515 the external filename encoding first.
516 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
517 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
518 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
519 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
520 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
521 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
522 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
523 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
524 error catching.
525
526 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
527 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
528 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
529 feedback yet).
530 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
531 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
532 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
533 from Linux::AIO.
534 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
535 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
536 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
537 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
538 the fd to an fh.
539 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
540 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
541 properly encode your pathnames.
542
543 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
544 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
545 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
546 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
547 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
548
549 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
550 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
551 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
552 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
553 from Linux::AIO.
554 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
555 does not implement pread/pwrite).
556 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
557
558 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
559 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
560 need it anyway.
561 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
562 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
563
564 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
565 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
566 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
567
568 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
569 - restructured manpage.
570 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
571 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
572 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
573
574 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
575 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
576 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
577 communications for most requests and responses.
578
579 0.1
580 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
581