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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: scandir - some dirs mostly contain subdirs - invert logic?
4 TODO: aio_cptree/mvtree
5 TODO: reduce condvar fairness: schedule hot-cache-threads first?
6 TODO: vmsplice? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/)
7 TODO: aio_fcntl, at least for file-locking
8 TODO: aio_mincore?
9 TODO: getxattr etc.?
10 TODO: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
11 TODO: emulation for splice?
12 TODO: eio_mmap|mlock|munmap|splice...
13 TODO: syncfs/sync windows:
14 TODO: F_SETPIPE_SZ, F_GETPIPE_SZ
15 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65170/how-to-get-name-associated-with-open-handle/5286888#5286888
16 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2005/04/16/408947.aspx
17 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366789%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
18 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366789%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
19 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
20 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364963%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
21 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364996%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
22 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364994%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
23 TODO: extra socket/tcp constants &c?
24
25 TODO: rewrite rmtree et al. to support working directories (also speed them up)
26 4.31 Tue Jun 3 03:29:27 CEST 2014
27 - work around more 5.20 bugs. backwards compatibility my ass.
28
29 4.3 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
30 - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
31 without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
32 in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
33 compatibility - I will never understand.
34
35 4.2 Sat Jan 25 01:13:14 CET 2014
36 - aio_group could corrupt memory because it didn't restore
37 the stack after req_submit.
38 - be more careful on (e.g. permission) errors in bin/treescan.
39 - work around changes in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
40 - (libeio) implement aio_realpath for win32.
41 - (xthread) work around compile time bugs in ptw32.
42 - added IO::AIO::pipesize.
43 - (libecb) insignificant update.
44
45 4.19 Sun Jan 6 12:47:26 CET 2013
46 - avoid endless loop in fiemap with some XFS files.
47 - in aio_rename and aio_rmdir, specialcase the case of [$wd, "."]
48 and call rename/rmdir instead of renameat/unlinkat.
49
50 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
51 - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
52
53 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
54 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
55 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
56 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
57 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
58 as per unix spec.
59
60 4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
61 - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
62 it to malfunction for paths.
63 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
64 extents.
65 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
66 trash fiemap input arguments.
67 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
68 set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
69 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
70 truncates segment count if a file.
71 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
72 to quick overview.
73 - splice can corrupt data.
74 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
75 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
76 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
77 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
78
79 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
80 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
81 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
82 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
83 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
84 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
85 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
86
87 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
88 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
89 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
90 - new request aio_seek.
91 - new request aio_fiemap.
92 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
93
94 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
95 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
96 instead of -1.
97 - port to c89.
98
99 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
100 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
101
102 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
103 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
104 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
105 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
106 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
107 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
108 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
109 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
110 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
111 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
112 in aio_scandir and treescan.
113 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
114 - added --progress switch to treescan.
115
116 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
117 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
118 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
119 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
120 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
121 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
122 a timeout occured at the same time.
123 - (libeio) added realpath.
124 - (libeio) added fallocate.
125 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
126 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
127 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
128
129 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
130 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
131
132 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
133 - ecb.h was missing.
134
135 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
136 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
137 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
138 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
139 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
140 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
141 transferred...)
142 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
143 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
144 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
145 pthread and fork in perl.
146 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
147 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
148 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
149 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
150
151 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
152 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
153 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
154 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
155 flags.
156
157 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
158 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
159 - support a max_idle value of 0.
160 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
161
162 3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
163 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
164 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
165 - new treescan option: --grep.
166 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
167
168 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
169 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
170 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
171 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
172 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
173 funcitonality. ugh.
174
175 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
176 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
177 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
178 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
179 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
180 (openbsd 4.8).
181 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
182 had string-data.
183 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
184 them.
185 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
186 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
187 user-errors better.
188 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
189
190 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
191 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
192 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
193 Rasmus Andersson).
194 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
195 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
196 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
197 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
198 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
199
200 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
201 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
202 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
203 kernel sources.
204 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
205 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
206 - clean up manpage.
207
208 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
209 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
210 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
211 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
212 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
213 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
214 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
215
216 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
217 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
218 - clarify cancel_subs description.
219 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
220 from the sendfile call.
221 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
222 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
223
224 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
225 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
226 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
227 hash lookups.
228
229 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
230 - use common::sense.
231 - use common schmorp.h header.
232 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
233 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
234 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
235
236 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
237 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
238
239 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
240 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
241 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
242 way. might help other os's too.
243
244 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
245 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
246 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
247 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
248 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
249 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
250 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
251 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
252 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
253 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
254 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
255 but should not have been.
256 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
257 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
258
259 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
260 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
261 rushed 3.22 release.
262
263 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
264 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
265 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
266
267 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
268 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
269 - install bin/treescan by default.
270 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
271 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
272 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
273 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
274 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
275 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
276 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
277
278 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
279 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
280 not restore the file offset.
281 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
282 the names in various ways.
283 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
284 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
285 process. no more!
286 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
287
288 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
289 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
290 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
291 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
292
293 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
294 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
295 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
296
297 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
298 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
299 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
300
301 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
302 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
303 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
304
305 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
306 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
307 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
308 has added something to the group or not.
309
310 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
311 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
312 and decreased memory usage.
313 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
314 but seems more correct.
315 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
316 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
317 requiring a thread switch.
318 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
319 - do some other µ-optimisations.
320
321 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
322 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
323
324 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
325 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
326 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
327 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
328
329 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
330 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
331 (sic!) versions.
332
333 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
334 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
335 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
336 is stupid.
337 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
338 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
339 not to get initialised properly.
340
341 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
342 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
343 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
344 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
345 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
346 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
347
348 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
349 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
350 - bring back working fchmod.
351 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
352 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
353
354 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
355 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
356 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
357 - do not try to link against -lrt.
358 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
359
360 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
361 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
362 - switched to using libeio.
363 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
364 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
365 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
366 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
367
368 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
369 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
370 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
371 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
372 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
373
374 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
375 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
376 also display files given on the commandline.
377 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
378 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
379 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
380 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
381 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
382 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
383 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
384
385 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
386 - added aio_sync.
387 - added aio_pathsync.
388 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
389
390 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
391 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
392 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
393 (see the manpage for details).
394 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
395 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
396 - minor code cleanups.
397
398 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
399 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
400 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
401 work sensibly for the very first time.
402
403 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
404 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
405 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
406 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
407 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
408
409 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
410 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
411 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
412 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
413 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
414 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
415 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
416 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
417 have a larger range then.
418 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
419 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
420 - readahead emulation now returns something.
421 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
422 (should never happen, though).
423 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
424 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
425 too many functions with crashing versions.
426
427 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
428 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
429
430 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
431 - added aio_rmtree.
432 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
433 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
434 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
435 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
436 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
437
438 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
439 - added aio_load.
440
441 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
442 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
443 or crashes.
444
445 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
446 - minor doc updates.
447 - minor cleanups.
448 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
449 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
450
451 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
452 - minor doc updates.
453 - added aio_readlink.
454 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
455 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
456 - reduced size of aio request structure.
457 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
458 do not leak request in that case, either.
459
460 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
461 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
462 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
463 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
464 it would have to copy files manually.
465 - doc updates.
466 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
467 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
468 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
469 - some tuning applied to random places.
470 - add aio_mknod.
471
472 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
473 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
474 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
475 - aio requests can be cancelled.
476 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
477 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
478 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
479 into composite requests.
480 - generator interface for groups.
481 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
482 - major documentation improvements.
483 - very minor bugfixes.
484 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
485 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
486 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
487 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
488 putting them onto the stack.
489 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
490 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
491 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
492 - warn about broken perl malloc.
493 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
494 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
495 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
496
497 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
498 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
499
500 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
501 - codename "jost"
502 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
503 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
504 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
505
506 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
507 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
508 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
509
510 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
511 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
512 in a runtime error.
513
514 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
515 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
516 - added AnyEvent example.
517
518 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
519 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
520 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
521 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
522 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
523 wasting memory).
524
525 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
526 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
527 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
528 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
529 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
530 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
531
532 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
533 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
534 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
535 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
536 - abort when the configure script fails.
537
538 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
539 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
540 deadlocks.
541
542 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
543 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
544 eating them.
545 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
546 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
547 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
548 length after reading.
549 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
550 from the parent.
551 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
552 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
553 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
554 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
555 scalar for better error reporting.
556
557 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
558 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
559 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
560 the external filename encoding first.
561 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
562 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
563 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
564 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
565 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
566 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
567 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
568 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
569 error catching.
570
571 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
572 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
573 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
574 feedback yet).
575 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
576 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
577 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
578 from Linux::AIO.
579 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
580 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
581 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
582 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
583 the fd to an fh.
584 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
585 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
586 properly encode your pathnames.
587
588 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
589 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
590 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
591 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
592 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
593
594 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
595 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
596 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
597 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
598 from Linux::AIO.
599 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
600 does not implement pread/pwrite).
601 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
602
603 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
604 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
605 need it anyway.
606 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
607 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
608
609 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
610 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
611 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
612
613 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
614 - restructured manpage.
615 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
616 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
617 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
618
619 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
620 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
621 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
622 communications for most requests and responses.
623
624 0.1
625 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
626