Revision history for IO::AIO 1.3 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently eating them. - forking while in an atfork handler is now supported, although I am pretty sure some pthread implementations will barf - don't fork in an AIO callback if that is a concern for you. 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris. - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to the external filename encoding first. - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again). - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS. - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and posix contradict each other, I followed posix). - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup). - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink. - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better error catching. 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls. (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing feedback yet). - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those. - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick from Linux::AIO. - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well. - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls. - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing the fd to an fh. - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you properly encode your pathnames. 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles. - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it. - disable warnings in AIO.pm. 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too. - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS. - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover from Linux::AIO. (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but does not implement pread/pwrite). - only include on linux. 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005 - removed #include , it's not portable, and we don't need it anyway. - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync, and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt. 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll. - make callback argument optional for all calls. 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005 - restructured manpage. - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk. - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :). 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0. - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread communications for most requests and responses. 0.1 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.