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Revision: 1.83
Committed: Tue Oct 24 03:17:39 2006 UTC (17 years, 7 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for IO::AIO
2
3 TODO: better autoconf.pm that can return LIBS etc.
4 TODO: use feeder for aio_scandir.
5
6 2.0
7 - aio requests can be cancelled.
8 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
9 - aio requests can have choose 9 priorities.
10 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
11 into composite requests.
12 - generator interface for groups.
13 - major documentation improvements.
14 - very minor bugfixes.
15 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
16 - add aio_sleep mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
17 - deprecated max_outstanding.
18 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
19 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
20 putting them onto the stack.
21 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
22 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
23
24 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
25 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
26
27 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
28 - codename "jost"
29 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
30 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
31 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
32
33 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
34 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
35 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
36
37 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
38 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
39 in a runtime error.
40
41 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
42 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
43 - added AnyEvent example.
44
45 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
46 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
47 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
48 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
49 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
50 wasting memory).
51
52 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
53 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
54 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
55 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
56 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
57 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
58
59 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
60 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
61 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
62 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
63 - abort when the configure script fails.
64
65 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
66 - forget to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
67 deadlocks.
68
69 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
70 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
71 eating them.
72 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
73 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
74 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
75 length after reading.
76 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
77 from the parent.
78 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
79 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
80 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
81 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
82 scalar for better error reporting.
83
84 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
85 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
86 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
87 the external filename encoding first.
88 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
89 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
90 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
91 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
92 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
93 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
94 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
95 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
96 error catching.
97
98 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
99 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
100 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
101 feedback yet).
102 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
103 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
104 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
105 from Linux::AIO.
106 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
107 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
108 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
109 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
110 the fd to an fh.
111 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
112 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
113 properly encode your pathnames.
114
115 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
116 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
117 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
118 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
119 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
120
121 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
122 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
123 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
124 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
125 from Linux::AIO.
126 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
127 does not implement pread/pwrite).
128 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
129
130 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
131 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
132 need it anyway.
133 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
134 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
135
136 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
137 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
138 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
139
140 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
141 - restructured manpage.
142 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
143 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
144 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
145
146 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
147 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
148 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
149 communications for most requests and responses.
150
151 0.1
152 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
153