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Revision: 1.55
Committed: Wed Sep 7 17:41:17 2005 UTC (18 years, 8 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_61
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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
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3 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
4 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
5 garbage in their that is not installed on typical systems
6 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
7 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
8 wasting memory).
9
10 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
11 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
12 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
13 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
14 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
15 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
16
17 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
18 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
19 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
20 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
21 - abort when the configure script fails.
22
23 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
24 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
25 deadlocks.
26
27 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
28 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
29 eating them.
30 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
31 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
32 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
33 length after reading.
34 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
35 from the parent.
36 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
37 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
38 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
39 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
40 scalar for better error reporting.
41
42 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
43 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
44 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
45 the external filename encoding first.
46 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
47 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
48 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
49 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
50 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
51 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
52 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
53 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
54 error catching.
55
56 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
57 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
58 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
59 feedback yet).
60 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
61 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
62 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
63 from Linux::AIO.
64 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
65 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
66 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
67 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
68 the fd to an fh.
69 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
70 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
71 properly encode your pathnames.
72
73 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
74 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
75 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
76 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
77 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
78
79 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
80 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
81 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
82 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
83 from Linux::AIO.
84 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
85 does not implement pread/pwrite).
86 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
87
88 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
89 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
90 need it anyway.
91 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
92 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
93
94 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
95 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
96 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
97
98 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
99 - restructured manpage.
100 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
101 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
102 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
103
104 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
105 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
106 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
107 communications for most requests and responses.
108
109 0.1
110 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
111