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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 - (libeio) implement aio_realpath for win32.
14 - (xthread) work around compile time bugs in ptw32.
15
16 4.19 Sun Jan 6 12:47:26 CET 2013
17 - avoid endless loop in fiemap with some XFS files.
18 - in aio_rename and aio_rmdir, specialcase the case of [$wd, "."]
19 and call rename/rmdir instead of renameat/unlinkat.
20
21 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
22 - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
23
24 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
25 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
26 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
27 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
28 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
29 as per unix spec.
30
31 4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
32 - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
33 it to malfunction for paths.
34 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
35 extents.
36 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
37 trash fiemap input arguments.
38 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
39 set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
40 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
41 truncates segment count if a file.
42 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
43 to quick overview.
44 - splice can corrupt data.
45 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
46 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
47 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
48 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
49
50 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
51 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
52 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
53 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
54 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
55 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
56 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
57
58 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
59 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
60 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
61 - new request aio_seek.
62 - new request aio_fiemap.
63 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
64
65 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
66 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
67 instead of -1.
68 - port to c89.
69
70 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
71 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
72
73 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
74 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
75 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
76 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
77 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
78 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
79 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
80 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
81 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
82 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
83 in aio_scandir and treescan.
84 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
85 - added --progress switch to treescan.
86
87 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
88 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
89 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
90 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
91 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
92 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
93 a timeout occured at the same time.
94 - (libeio) added realpath.
95 - (libeio) added fallocate.
96 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
97 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
98 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
99
100 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
101 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
102
103 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
104 - ecb.h was missing.
105
106 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
107 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
108 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
109 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
110 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
111 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
112 transferred...)
113 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
114 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
115 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
116 pthread and fork in perl.
117 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
118 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
119 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
120 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
121
122 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
123 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
124 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
125 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
126 flags.
127
128 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
129 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
130 - support a max_idle value of 0.
131 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
132
133 3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
134 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
135 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
136 - new treescan option: --grep.
137 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
138
139 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
140 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
141 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
142 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
143 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
144 funcitonality. ugh.
145
146 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
147 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
148 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
149 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
150 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
151 (openbsd 4.8).
152 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
153 had string-data.
154 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
155 them.
156 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
157 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
158 user-errors better.
159 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
160
161 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
162 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
163 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
164 Rasmus Andersson).
165 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
166 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
167 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
168 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
169 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
170
171 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
172 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
173 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
174 kernel sources.
175 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
176 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
177 - clean up manpage.
178
179 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
180 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
181 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
182 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
183 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
184 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
185 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
186
187 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
188 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
189 - clarify cancel_subs description.
190 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
191 from the sendfile call.
192 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
193 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
194
195 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
196 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
197 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
198 hash lookups.
199
200 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
201 - use common::sense.
202 - use common schmorp.h header.
203 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
204 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
205 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
206
207 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
208 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
209
210 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
211 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
212 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
213 way. might help other os's too.
214
215 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
216 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
217 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
218 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
219 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
220 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
221 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
222 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
223 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
224 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
225 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
226 but should not have been.
227 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
228 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
229
230 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
231 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
232 rushed 3.22 release.
233
234 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
235 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
236 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
237
238 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
239 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
240 - install bin/treescan by default.
241 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
242 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
243 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
244 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
245 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
246 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
247 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
248
249 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
250 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
251 not restore the file offset.
252 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
253 the names in various ways.
254 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
255 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
256 process. no more!
257 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
258
259 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
260 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
261 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
262 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
263
264 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
265 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
266 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
267
268 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
269 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
270 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
271
272 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
273 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
274 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
275
276 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
277 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
278 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
279 has added something to the group or not.
280
281 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
282 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
283 and decreased memory usage.
284 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
285 but seems more correct.
286 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
287 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
288 requiring a thread switch.
289 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
290 - do some other ยต-optimisations.
291
292 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
293 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
294
295 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
296 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
297 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
298 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
299
300 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
301 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
302 (sic!) versions.
303
304 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
305 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
306 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
307 is stupid.
308 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
309 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
310 not to get initialised properly.
311
312 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
313 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
314 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
315 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
316 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
317 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
318
319 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
320 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
321 - bring back working fchmod.
322 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
323 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
324
325 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
326 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
327 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
328 - do not try to link against -lrt.
329 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
330
331 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
332 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
333 - switched to using libeio.
334 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
335 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
336 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
337 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
338
339 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
340 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
341 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
342 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
343 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
344
345 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
346 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
347 also display files given on the commandline.
348 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
349 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
350 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
351 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
352 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
353 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
354 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
355
356 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
357 - added aio_sync.
358 - added aio_pathsync.
359 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
360
361 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
362 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
363 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
364 (see the manpage for details).
365 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
366 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
367 - minor code cleanups.
368
369 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
370 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
371 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
372 work sensibly for the very first time.
373
374 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
375 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
376 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
377 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
378 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
379
380 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
381 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
382 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
383 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
384 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
385 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
386 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
387 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
388 have a larger range then.
389 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
390 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
391 - readahead emulation now returns something.
392 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
393 (should never happen, though).
394 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
395 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
396 too many functions with crashing versions.
397
398 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
399 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
400
401 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
402 - added aio_rmtree.
403 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
404 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
405 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
406 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
407 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
408
409 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
410 - added aio_load.
411
412 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
413 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
414 or crashes.
415
416 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
417 - minor doc updates.
418 - minor cleanups.
419 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
420 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
421
422 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
423 - minor doc updates.
424 - added aio_readlink.
425 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
426 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
427 - reduced size of aio request structure.
428 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
429 do not leak request in that case, either.
430
431 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
432 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
433 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
434 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
435 it would have to copy files manually.
436 - doc updates.
437 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
438 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
439 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
440 - some tuning applied to random places.
441 - add aio_mknod.
442
443 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
444 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
445 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
446 - aio requests can be cancelled.
447 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
448 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
449 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
450 into composite requests.
451 - generator interface for groups.
452 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
453 - major documentation improvements.
454 - very minor bugfixes.
455 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
456 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
457 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
458 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
459 putting them onto the stack.
460 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
461 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
462 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
463 - warn about broken perl malloc.
464 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
465 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
466 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
467
468 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
469 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
470
471 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
472 - codename "jost"
473 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
474 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
475 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
476
477 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
478 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
479 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
480
481 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
482 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
483 in a runtime error.
484
485 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
486 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
487 - added AnyEvent example.
488
489 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
490 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
491 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
492 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
493 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
494 wasting memory).
495
496 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
497 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
498 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
499 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
500 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
501 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
502
503 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
504 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
505 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
506 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
507 - abort when the configure script fails.
508
509 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
510 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
511 deadlocks.
512
513 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
514 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
515 eating them.
516 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
517 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
518 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
519 length after reading.
520 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
521 from the parent.
522 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
523 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
524 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
525 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
526 scalar for better error reporting.
527
528 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
529 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
530 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
531 the external filename encoding first.
532 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
533 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
534 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
535 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
536 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
537 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
538 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
539 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
540 error catching.
541
542 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
543 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
544 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
545 feedback yet).
546 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
547 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
548 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
549 from Linux::AIO.
550 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
551 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
552 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
553 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
554 the fd to an fh.
555 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
556 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
557 properly encode your pathnames.
558
559 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
560 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
561 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
562 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
563 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
564
565 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
566 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
567 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
568 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
569 from Linux::AIO.
570 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
571 does not implement pread/pwrite).
572 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
573
574 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
575 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
576 need it anyway.
577 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
578 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
579
580 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
581 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
582 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
583
584 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
585 - restructured manpage.
586 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
587 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
588 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
589
590 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
591 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
592 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
593 communications for most requests and responses.
594
595 0.1
596 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
597