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Revision: 1.70
Committed: Sun Oct 22 00:53:47 2006 UTC (17 years, 7 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4
5 2.0
6 - aio functions now return control block objects that
7 can be used to cancel requests.
8 - aio requests can be cancelled.
9 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped.
10 - add aio_sleep mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
11
12 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
13 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
14
15 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
16 - codename "jost"
17 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
18 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
19 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
20
21 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
22 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
23 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
24
25 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
26 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
27 in a runtime error.
28
29 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
30 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
31 - added AnyEvent example.
32
33 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
34 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
35 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
36 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
37 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
38 wasting memory).
39
40 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
41 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
42 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
43 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
44 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
45 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
46
47 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
48 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
49 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
50 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
51 - abort when the configure script fails.
52
53 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
54 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
55 deadlocks.
56
57 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
58 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
59 eating them.
60 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
61 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
62 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
63 length after reading.
64 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
65 from the parent.
66 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
67 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
68 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
69 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
70 scalar for better error reporting.
71
72 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
73 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
74 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
75 the external filename encoding first.
76 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
77 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
78 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
79 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
80 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
81 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
82 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
83 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
84 error catching.
85
86 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
87 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
88 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
89 feedback yet).
90 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
91 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
92 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
93 from Linux::AIO.
94 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
95 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
96 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
97 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
98 the fd to an fh.
99 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
100 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
101 properly encode your pathnames.
102
103 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
104 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
105 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
106 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
107 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
108
109 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
110 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
111 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
112 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
113 from Linux::AIO.
114 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
115 does not implement pread/pwrite).
116 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
117
118 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
119 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
120 need it anyway.
121 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
122 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
123
124 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
125 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
126 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
127
128 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
129 - restructured manpage.
130 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
131 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
132 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
133
134 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
135 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
136 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
137 communications for most requests and responses.
138
139 0.1
140 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
141