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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 TODO: posix_fallocate when flags=0
16 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65170/how-to-get-name-associated-with-open-handle/5286888#5286888
17 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2005/04/16/408947.aspx
18 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366789%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
19 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366789%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
20 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
21 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364963%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
22 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364996%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
23 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364994%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
24 TODO: extra socket/tcp constants &c?
25 TODO: getrandom, GRND_NONBLOCK, GRND_NONBLOCK
26 TODO: http://lwn.net/Articles/593918/ SHMEM_SET_SEALS, SHMEM_GET_SEALS, SEAL_SHRINK, SEAL_GROW, SEAL_WRITE, int memfd_create(const char *name, u64 size, u64 flags);, MFD_CLOEXEC, int fd = open("/tmp", O_RDWR | O_TMPFILE | O_EXCL, S_IRWXU);
27 TODO: O_TMPFILE
28 TODO: FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
29 TODO: FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
30 TODO: renameat RENAME_EXCHANGE, RENAME_NOREPLACE, RENAME_EXCHANGE
31 TODO: fcntl F_GETLKP/F_SETLKP/F_SETLKPW, http://lwn.net/Articles/586904/
32 TODO: flink + AT_EMPTY_PATH
33 TODO: name_to_handle_At + open_by_handle_at = clone fds
34
35 TODO: rewrite rmtree et al. to support working directories (also speed them up)
36 TODO: maybe IO::AIO leaks fds when requests are cancelled? maybe initialise result to -1?
37
38 - add IO::AIO::pipe2 function.
39 - use NO_INIT where applicable.
40 - update libecb.
41 - added stability canary support.
42 - added support for FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE and FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
43 constants.
44
45 4.32 Wed Feb 11 20:32:11 CET 2015
46 - replace off_t by STRLEN where appropriate, should not result in
47 user-visible changes.
48 - update ecb.h for C11 compatibility.
49
50 4.31 Tue Jun 3 03:29:27 CEST 2014
51 - work around more 5.20 bugs. backwards compatibility my ass.
52
53 4.3 Fri Apr 11 06:22:38 CEST 2014
54 - perl5porters broke Async::Interrupt, BDB, EV, IO::AIO, OpenCL
55 without warning by switching the meaning of USE_SOCKETS_AS_HANDLES
56 in 5.18. What's so attractive about giving a shit about backwards
57 compatibility - I will never understand.
58
59 4.2 Sat Jan 25 01:13:14 CET 2014
60 - aio_group could corrupt memory because it didn't restore
61 the stack after req_submit.
62 - be more careful on (e.g. permission) errors in bin/treescan.
63 - work around changes in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
64 - (libeio) implement aio_realpath for win32.
65 - (xthread) work around compile time bugs in ptw32.
66 - added IO::AIO::pipesize.
67 - (libecb) insignificant update.
68
69 4.19 Sun Jan 6 12:47:26 CET 2013
70 - avoid endless loop in fiemap with some XFS files.
71 - in aio_rename and aio_rmdir, specialcase the case of [$wd, "."]
72 and call rename/rmdir instead of renameat/unlinkat.
73
74 4.18 Thu Oct 11 07:01:26 CEST 2012
75 - fix unintended xthread_create by intentionalising it :)
76
77 4.17 Thu Oct 11 05:19:47 CEST 2012
78 - rename aio_fallocate to aio_allocate, to match documentation.
79 - add list of linux fsid values to aio_statvfs docs.
80 - work around a bug in btrfs' FIEMAP ioctl implementation.
81 - work around AIX bug: statvfs.f_fsid is a struct, not unsigned long
82 as per unix spec.
83
84 4.16 Tue Aug 14 05:39:03 CEST 2012
85 - aio_statvfs was wromgly marked for wd emulation, causing
86 it to malfunction for paths.
87 - fix a crash in aio_fiemap, when used on ranges without any
88 extents.
89 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel might
90 trash fiemap input arguments.
91 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel does not
92 set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST on last segment.
93 - work around linux kernel bug (at least in 3.2): kernel silently
94 truncates segment count if a file.
95 - make fh argument of IO::AIO::mmap optional, also add mmap/munmap
96 to quick overview.
97 - splice can corrupt data.
98 - (libeio) remove pread/pwrite emulation.
99 - do not grow mmaped scalars in aio_read.
100 - add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and document fallocate.
101 - provide pread/pwrite for win32, making it link again on native win32.
102
103 4.15 Tue Apr 10 06:59:00 CEST 2012
104 - always include linux/types.h for fiemap, for compatibility to
105 ancient systems (Paul Howarth).
106 - experimental support for IO::AIO::splice and ::tee (no aio_...).
107 - provide SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, if available.
108 - work around (again!) an immensely stupid bug in RHEL, defining
109 autoconf macros in linux system headers (analysed by Paul Howarth).
110
111 4.14 Sat Apr 7 02:45:18 CEST 2012
112 - fix stat structure usage on windows, which caused bogus stat results.
113 - (libeio) make readahead emulation behave more like actual readahead by never failing.
114 - new request aio_seek.
115 - new request aio_fiemap.
116 - autogenerate the #ifdef/#define 0 blocks for symbols we export.
117
118 4.12 Fri Dec 30 08:51:25 CET 2011
119 - realpath would return a random value if the name was too long,
120 instead of -1.
121 - port to c89.
122
123 4.11 Mon Oct 10 00:24:11 CEST 2011
124 - libeio didn't compile on !linux (Paul Howarth).
125
126 4.1 Sun Oct 9 10:24:11 CEST 2011
127 - IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
128 - (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
129 - (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
130 - (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
131 - applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
132 - tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
133 - reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time
134 in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
135 - take advantage of working directoriy abstractions
136 in aio_scandir and treescan.
137 - reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
138 - added --progress switch to treescan.
139
140 4.0 Mon Jul 18 05:01:10 CEST 2011
141 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: fork is no longer supported (indeed, it never was),
142 see FORK BEHAVIOUR in manpage for details.
143 - passes testsuite on win32 now and may actually work
144 (activestate 5.10.1 / MSVC6, YMMV).
145 - (libeio) fix a deadlock where a wakeup signal could be missed when
146 a timeout occured at the same time.
147 - (libeio) added realpath.
148 - (libeio) added fallocate.
149 - (libeio) disabling sendfile on darwin unfortunately broke the emulation.
150 - (libeio) do not acquire any locks when forking.
151 - (libeio) use fewer time() syscalls when waiting for new requests.
152
153 3.93 Wed Jun 29 23:44:18 CEST 2011
154 - ECB.H WAS MISSING.
155
156 3.92 Wed Jun 29 14:45:41 CEST 2011
157 - ecb.h was missing.
158
159 3.91 Wed Jun 29 13:24:42 CEST 2011
160 - (libeio) work around a Linux (and likely FreeBSD and other
161 kernels) bug where sendfile would not transfer all the requested
162 bytes on large transfers, using a heuristic.
163 - buggy sendfile caused aio_move/copy to sometimes fail for big
164 files (fortunately it checks that the whole file has been
165 transferred...)
166 - use libecb for higher performance and higher portability.
167 - (libeio) disable sendfile on darwin, it's too broken.
168 - disable fork tests on !linux, as only linux supports mixing
169 pthread and fork in perl.
170 - document the fact that fork doesn't work anymore when using
171 this module, on anything !GNU/Linux.
172 - increase timeout in t/04_fork.t, as too many CPAN-tester setups
173 run on a 0.1MHz cpu. Or so.
174
175 3.9 Fri May 27 02:43:47 CEST 2011
176 - (libeio) fix memory corruption in aio_readdirx for the flags
177 combination READDIR_STAT_ORDER | READDIR_DIRS_FIRST.
178 - add lots of newer POSIX and GNU/Linux-specific open
179 flags.
180
181 3.8 Sun Mar 27 12:25:33 CEST 2011
182 - use nonstandard but maybe-working-on-bsd fork technique.
183 - support a max_idle value of 0.
184 - support setting of idle timeout value (IO::AIO::idle_timeout).
185
186 3.72 Fri Feb 11 04:25:38 CET 2011
187 - use _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE to detect mlock/munlock.
188 - aio_mknod always used a dev_t value of 0.
189 - new treescan option: --grep.
190 - add more S_IF macros, and major/minor/makedev "macros".
191
192 3.71 Thu Dec 30 08:18:46 CET 2010
193 - the numerical result value passed to callbacks did not stringify
194 correctly, due to internal reuse and failure to reset the sv flags.
195 - actually test for posix_[mf]advise, as at least uClibc defines
196 _POSIX_ADVISORY_INFO without actually having any of the required
197 funcitonality. ugh.
198
199 3.7 Mon Nov 1 23:00:34 CET 2010
200 - implement/add madvise, mmap, munmap, aio_mlockall, munlockall,
201 aio_mlock, munlock, msync and mtouch to @EXPORT_OK.
202 - document the sad state of affairs w.r.t. pthread on many bsds.
203 - do not enable mmap on systems without _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
204 (openbsd 4.8).
205 - do not leak memory in IO::AIO::mmap when the scalar already
206 had string-data.
207 - add O_RDWR, O_APPEND and O_EXCL symbols and semi-document
208 them.
209 - cache the result IV, for a minor speedup in the common case.
210 - croak when an mmapped-scalar changes location, to detect
211 user-errors better.
212 - fix aio_readlink prototype.
213
214 3.65 Wed Mar 31 02:45:05 CEST 2010
215 - actually use PATH_MAX instead of NAME_MAX for readlink, as to not
216 cut off long pathnames in aio_readlink (based on patch by
217 Rasmus Andersson).
218 - a double fork partially killed the event pipe (great testcase
219 by dormando). affects IO::AIO, BDB and Async::Interrupt.
220 - suck steve's dick and rename our symbols to avoid colliding
221 with nonstandard identifier spam on the broken os x pseudo-os.
222 affects IO::AIO and BDB.
223
224 3.6 Mon Jan 11 00:43:39 CET 2010
225 - (libeio) more fixes for the freebsd/apple sendfile - broken by
226 manpage standards, but apparently correct accoridng to actual
227 kernel sources.
228 - add IO::AIO::mmap/munmap support.
229 - add IO::AIO::m(un)lockall support.
230 - clean up manpage.
231
232 3.5 Thu Jan 7 21:25:04 CET 2010
233 - (liebio) fix freebsd sendfile (Vanilla Hsu).
234 - (libeio) also fix darwin sendfile that suffered from a similar bug.
235 - add aio_statvfs as interface to statvfs/fstatvfs.
236 - work around buggy symlink() on cygwin in the testsuite.
237 - wtf. freebsd-8.0 actually passes the testsuite! I knew
238 they could implement fork and semaphores one day! cheers!
239
240 3.4 Sat Jan 2 15:13:04 CET 2010
241 - (libeio) max_poll_time was not properly converted to ticks.
242 - clarify cancel_subs description.
243 - IO::AIO::sendfile did not actually return the return value
244 from the sendfile call.
245 - implement aio_msync, aio_mtouch.
246 - (libeio) tentatively support darwin in sendfile.
247
248 3.31 Thu Nov 12 02:14:29 CET 2009
249 - fix result status documentation of aio_copy, aio_move.
250 - speed up object creation considerably by avoiding
251 hash lookups.
252
253 3.3 Wed Aug 5 13:52:58 CEST 2009
254 - use common::sense.
255 - use common schmorp.h header.
256 - allow integers (file descriptors) in addition to file handles.
257 - take advantage of linux' eventfd (but it seems slower on smp?).
258 - use poll not select on posix platforms.
259
260 3.261 Wed Jul 1 10:11:51 CEST 2009
261 - more 0S X workarounds (patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno).
262
263 3.26 Tue Jun 30 09:33:26 CEST 2009
264 - 0S X of course claims to be posix 2008 but lacks posix_fadvise.
265 try to work around this horribly broken OS in a somewhat hackish
266 way. might help other os's too.
267
268 3.25 Sat Jun 27 05:18:26 CEST 2009
269 - added IO::AIO::fadvise and IO::AIO::sendfile.
270 - (libeio) replaced quicksort+insertion sort by a tuned radix
271 sort + insertion sort, resulting in comparable runtime (usually
272 faster) to the old version, but without any ill side effects on
273 degenerated (for quicksort) data.
274 - (libeio) correctly sort dirs by inodes if we have perfect type
275 knowledge and DIRS_FIRST is used.
276 - (libeio) internally the wrong DT_* constants were used, but no
277 known system has differing EIO_DT_*/DT_* values, so not an issue.
278 - removed a (harmless) assert that was left over on the code
279 but should not have been.
280 - use more correct types (change IO length from IV to VAL64,
281 which makes a difference on systems without 64 bit perls).
282
283 3.23 Sat Jun 13 16:57:58 CEST 2009
284 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_readdir that was introduced in the
285 rushed 3.22 release.
286
287 3.22 Sat Jun 13 15:32:40 CEST 2009
288 - speed up readdirx sort algorithm slightly.
289 - bin/treescan was missing from distro tarball.
290
291 3.21 Fri Jun 12 18:45:53 CEST 2009
292 - new options --dirs and --files for treescan.
293 - install bin/treescan by default.
294 - (libeio) aio_readdir can now be cancelled while executing.
295 - fix a printf format string for 64 bit systems (could lead
296 to problems on big endian 64 bit systems).
297 - do not use qsort() but our own algorithm: glibc initialises
298 the whole locale and I/O subsystem inside qsort, causing
299 a stack overflow on 32 bit machines. The new sort uses much less
300 stack and is more than twice as fast in typical situations.
301
302 3.2 Sun Jun 7 20:30:05 CEST 2009
303 - (libeio) pwrite emulation was even more flawed than intended and did
304 not restore the file offset.
305 - add aio_readdirx, which can return inode and filetype and sort
306 the names in various ways.
307 - unfortunately, utime, chmod, chown on an open file that has just
308 been written can easily block, which caused aio_copy to block the
309 process. no more!
310 - no longer rely on dst path in aio_copy when futime is available.
311
312 3.19 Tue Apr 21 22:05:21 CEST 2009
313 - more perl 5.10 workarounds for aio_read and write.
314 - aio_write no longer modifies the sv (if possible).
315 - aio_read now works correctly with magic values.
316
317 3.18 Sun Apr 19 21:17:32 CEST 2009
318 - better diagnostics when some aio_* functions get passed an illegal fh.
319 - try to avoid crashes due to incompatible 5.10 API changes. grmbl.
320
321 3.17 Thu Nov 20 08:45:36 CET 2008
322 - (libeio) added aio_sync_file_range (untested).
323 - add aio_busy to @IO::AIO::AIO_REQ.
324
325 3.16 Wed Oct 22 18:28:01 CEST 2008
326 - use SvREFCNT_inc instead of SvREFCNT_inc_NN in a non-speed critical
327 part to improve portability to perl 5.8 (reported by szymon).
328
329 3.15 Mon Oct 13 00:39:55 CEST 2008
330 - automatic removal of feeders was broken.
331 - (libeio) use a more robust method to detect whether a feeder
332 has added something to the group or not.
333
334 3.1 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
335 - pre-deref the passed callback object, for increased speed
336 and decreased memory usage.
337 - call on_next_submit callback even for aio_group - impact unknown,
338 but seems more correct.
339 - $req->cb now returns the original callback.
340 - (libeio) pass EIO_GROUP/aio_group requests through the queue without
341 requiring a thread switch.
342 - (libeio) status code of aio_futime and aio_utime was always passed 0.
343 - do some other µ-optimisations.
344
345 3.07 Sat Aug 2 16:06:13 CEST 2008
346 - do not include LIBS in autoconf tests.
347
348 3.06 Tue Jul 15 12:41:32 CEST 2008
349 - move preadwritelock definition before it's first reference,
350 to make it compile again on broken platforms (they still exist)
351 or badly cofngiured perls (redhat...), reported by Rob Bloodgood.
352
353 3.05 Thu Jun 19 23:23:52 CEST 2008
354 - work around perl overriding readdir etc. with thread-unsafe
355 (sic!) versions.
356
357 3.04 Wed Jun 18 01:35:38 CEST 2008
358 - (libeio) fix eio_mknod, which confused it's arguments.
359 - (libeio) do not use readdir_r, as Ulrich Drepper pointed out that this
360 is stupid.
361 - (libeio) fix eio__readahead prototype, patch by Jost Krieger.
362 - (libeio) fix a bug that could potentially cause IO::AIO
363 not to get initialised properly.
364
365 3.03 Thu May 29 05:33:30 CEST 2008
366 - (libeio) correctly call pthread_attr_destroy ().
367 - (libeio) work around broken bsd headers once more.
368 - reduce shared library size again by not including wrappers.
369 - max_outstanding could cause poll to enter a busy-waiting loop.
370 - document the new IO::AIO::poll_cb result value.
371
372 3.02 Mon May 12 02:32:02 CEST 2008
373 - fix a memory leak on aio_readlink.
374 - bring back working fchmod.
375 - nop and busy now set result to 0.
376 - set errno to ENOMEM when allocation fails.
377
378 3.01 Sun May 11 03:07:03 CEST 2008
379 - (libeio) make it compile on systems without readahead or readdir_r.
380 - (libeio) improve configure check for readahead availability.
381 - do not try to link against -lrt.
382 - use a separate configure script for IO::AIO (not the libeio one).
383
384 3.0 Sun May 11 00:57:14 CEST 2008
385 - added bin/treescan to the distribution.
386 - switched to using libeio.
387 - LOTS OF INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
388 - remove signal functionality, it is not worth the effort.
389 - max_outstanding no longer returns the previous number of requests.
390 - poll_cb no longer returns number of requests.
391
392 2.62 Sat Apr 26 13:59:33 CEST 2008
393 - port to solaris perls configured for old posix
394 (analysed by Jost Krieger).
395 - keep a reference to the perl filehandle object in aio_close,
396 so it doesn't get closed prematurely, leading to ugly races.
397
398 2.61 Wed Apr 16 18:45:02 CEST 2008
399 - fix treescan output duplication and improve output ordering.
400 also display files given on the commandline.
401 - use a different algorithm for aio_close that is faster
402 and probably has even lower chances of blocking.
403 - do our own stack memory management for threads - linux
404 allocates outrageous amounts of VM (not so bad unless you
405 use mlockall...), which severely limits the number of threads
406 on 32-bit arches: stack size is the larger of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
407 and 4096 * sizeof (long) (usually this is 16..64k).
408
409 2.6 Sun Mar 30 08:28:11 CEST 2008
410 - added aio_sync.
411 - added aio_pathsync.
412 - fix prototypes of (void) functions.
413
414 2.51 Sat Oct 6 16:04:54 CEST 2007
415 - perlio isn't generally threadsafe, so aio_close could not work reliably.
416 aio_close now tries a safe hack that might not be that asynchronous
417 (see the manpage for details).
418 - discard callback return values as to not grow the stack endlessly
419 when poll_cb handles many requests without returning.
420 - minor code cleanups.
421
422 2.5 Thu Oct 4 14:49:08 CEST 2007
423 - replaced _fd2fh with faster xs code.
424 - aio_close will now try to do "the right thing" and thus might
425 work sensibly for the very first time.
426
427 2.41 Mon Sep 24 21:28:21 CEST 2007
428 - after fork, invest some work to make sure that the poll_fileno
429 stays stable (by dup2'ing the new fd over the old one), to make
430 it easier for programs/libs that don't control their forking
431 behaviour and cannot recreate their watchers.
432
433 2.4 Sun Aug 5 18:44:22 CEST 2007
434 - add aio_truncate, aio_chmod, aio_chown, aio_utime (linux
435 successfully demonstrated that you can block on futimes...).
436 - allow undef as fileoffset for aio_read/write and use read/write(2)
437 internally (useful for sockets or O_APPEND handles).
438 - allow undef for length in aio_write.
439 - negative dataoffsets work as expected now in aio_read/aio_write.
440 - use NV instead of UV for 32 bit perls and file offsets, as NVs
441 have a larger range then.
442 - shared code between BDB and IO::AIO.
443 - aio_busy was completely broken. now fixed.
444 - readahead emulation now returns something.
445 - correctly set errno to ENOSYS on unimplemented functions
446 (should never happen, though).
447 - large changes to make it partially compile and run on win32,
448 but win32 lacks too much functionality, and perl overrides way
449 too many functions with crashing versions.
450
451 2.33 Tue Jan 23 23:55:41 CET 2007
452 - fix install path (Andreas J. Koenig).
453
454 2.32 Mon Jan 22 16:56:23 CET 2007
455 - added aio_rmtree.
456 - wow, aio_mkdir was missing.
457 - aio_load did return undef on error, not -1.
458 - use prefixexp not prefix in autoconf.pm
459 (suggested by ... rt.cpan.org unreachable).
460 - avoid installing autoconf.pm.
461
462 2.31 Sat Jan 6 03:46:02 CET 2007
463 - added aio_load.
464
465 2.3 Sat Dec 23 05:48:07 CET 2006
466 - fix off-by-one bug in aio_read, causing memory corruption
467 or crashes.
468
469 2.21 Fri Dec 22 05:03:38 CET 2006
470 - minor doc updates.
471 - minor cleanups.
472 - IO::AIO::poll returns request count.
473 - undocumented and unfinished async-signal-reporting.
474
475 2.2 Tue Oct 31 00:31:00 CET 2006
476 - minor doc updates.
477 - added aio_readlink.
478 - properly zero-terminate aio_read buffer.
479 - fix aio_read/write with nonzero dataoffset.
480 - reduced size of aio request structure.
481 - better diagnostics when pathnames etc. are not byte-encoded;
482 do not leak request in that case, either.
483
484 2.1 Sun Oct 29 02:01:57 CET 2006
485 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: replace IO::AIO::poll_some by
486 IO::AIO::max_poll_reqs and IO::AIO::max_poll_time.
487 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
488 it would have to copy files manually.
489 - doc updates.
490 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
491 - end superfluous threads automatically after 10s idling.
492 - add IO::AIO::max_idle to control this.
493 - some tuning applied to random places.
494 - add aio_mknod.
495
496 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
497 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
498 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
499 - aio requests can be cancelled.
500 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
501 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
502 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
503 into composite requests.
504 - generator interface for groups.
505 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
506 - major documentation improvements.
507 - very minor bugfixes.
508 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
509 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
510 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
511 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
512 putting them onto the stack.
513 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
514 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
515 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
516 - warn about broken perl malloc.
517 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
518 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
519 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
520
521 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
522 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
523
524 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
525 - codename "jost"
526 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
527 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
528 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
529
530 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
531 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
532 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
533
534 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
535 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
536 in a runtime error.
537
538 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
539 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
540 - added AnyEvent example.
541
542 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
543 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
544 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
545 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
546 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
547 wasting memory).
548
549 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
550 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
551 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
552 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
553 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
554 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
555
556 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
557 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
558 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
559 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
560 - abort when the configure script fails.
561
562 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
563 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
564 deadlocks.
565
566 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
567 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
568 eating them.
569 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
570 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
571 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
572 length after reading.
573 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
574 from the parent.
575 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
576 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
577 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
578 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
579 scalar for better error reporting.
580
581 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
582 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
583 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
584 the external filename encoding first.
585 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
586 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
587 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
588 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
589 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
590 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
591 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
592 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
593 error catching.
594
595 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
596 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
597 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
598 feedback yet).
599 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
600 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
601 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
602 from Linux::AIO.
603 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
604 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
605 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
606 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
607 the fd to an fh.
608 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
609 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
610 properly encode your pathnames.
611
612 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
613 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
614 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
615 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
616 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
617
618 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
619 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
620 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
621 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
622 from Linux::AIO.
623 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
624 does not implement pread/pwrite).
625 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
626
627 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
628 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
629 need it anyway.
630 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
631 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
632
633 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
634 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
635 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
636
637 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
638 - restructured manpage.
639 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
640 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
641 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
642
643 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
644 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
645 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
646 communications for most requests and responses.
647
648 0.1
649 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
650