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Revision: 1.96
Committed: Sat Oct 28 01:24:19 2006 UTC (17 years, 6 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: aio_cp/mvtree/rmtree
5 TODO: aio_utime, aio_chmod, aio_chown?
6
7 TODO: expose max_idle
8 - fix a bug in aio_move where it would fail everytime
9 it would have to copy files manually.
10 - start threads only on (very low) demand.
11 - end threads automatically after 10s idle.
12 - some tuning applied to random places.
13 - add aio_mknod.
14
15 2.0 Thu Oct 26 18:27:58 CEST 2006
16 - minor incompatibility: max_outstanding semantics have changed.
17 - major rewrite, consider all functionality EXPERIMENTAL.
18 - aio requests can be cancelled.
19 - callbacks can be (re-)set later.
20 - aio requests can choose between 9 priorities.
21 - add aio_group: aio requests can be grouped
22 into composite requests.
23 - generator interface for groups.
24 - add IO::AIO::poll_some.
25 - major documentation improvements.
26 - very minor bugfixes.
27 - add aio_nop for dummy requests.
28 - add aio_busy mainly for benchmarking and debugging.
29 - use "fast" mutexes on linux.
30 - use dynamic (and larger) buffers instead of
31 putting them onto the stack.
32 - optimise x86 and amd64 a bit.
33 - better error checking when ENOMEM.
34 - hopefully fix mem and dirp leaks on fork.
35 - warn about broken perl malloc.
36 - compiles on cygwin (but pread is broken on cygwin
37 which is not detected by autoconf, so you have to
38 edit autoconf/config.h yourself to enable emulation).
39
40 1.8 Sat Jun 24 22:20:44 CEST 2006
41 - add and/or document aio_rename, aio_link, aio_symlink and aio_move.
42
43 1.73 Wed Mar 1 22:49:32 CET 2006
44 - codename "jost"
45 - AIX/Solaris(?) aren't being helpful again, hardcode a value
46 for NAME_MAX and drive with your eyes closed (reported by
47 wcooley@nakedape.cc).
48
49 1.72 Thu Feb 2 00:40:44 CET 2006
50 - another minor bug in aio_scandir, again, the callback was called
51 twice when the directory can't be stat'ed.
52
53 1.71 Mon Dec 26 20:20:03 CET 2005
54 - grr, another minor bug in aio_scandir, this time resulting
55 in a runtime error.
56
57 1.7 Mon Dec 26 19:29:48 CET 2005
58 - aio_scandir errornously called callback twice in some cases.
59 - added AnyEvent example.
60
61 1.61 Wed Sep 7 19:40:42 CEST 2005
62 - no longer include $Config{libs}, as distros include too much
63 garbage in there that is not installed on typical systems
64 (for example, debian links perl against -lgdbm and many more
65 libraries despite perl not needing it, slowing down startup and
66 wasting memory).
67
68 1.6 Tue Aug 30 17:44:44 CEST 2005
69 - added aio_readdir, aio_scandir.
70 - added aio_sendfile, including sendfile emulation when sendfile
71 isn't available. Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX might work (sendfilev
72 support is unavailable on my solaris 8 machine, but preliminary
73 code is there. What's lacking is configury stuff and testing...).
74
75 1.5 Sat Aug 20 02:32:19 CEST 2005
76 - create the aio threads on demand only (good after forking).
77 - somebody nagged about C89 compatibility, so this release should
78 be C89 compatible, but no guarantees for future ones.
79 - abort when the configure script fails.
80
81 1.4 Wed Aug 17 08:07:27 CEST 2005
82 - forgot to recreate the pipe after forking, this could cause
83 deadlocks.
84
85 1.3 Wed Aug 17 07:25:54 CEST 2005
86 - properly propagate exceptions from callbacks, instead of silently
87 eating them.
88 - use a different fork algorithm that avoids recursive callback
89 invocations and reduces fork latency in busy processes.
90 - fix a bug where the buffer scalar in aio_read got assigned the wrong
91 length after reading.
92 - fix a bug where the child would process some outstanding requests
93 from the parent.
94 - make a copy of the callback scalar, to avoid some very uncommon
95 (but valid) usages where the callback scalar changes.
96 - the callback was never freed in aio_read/aio_write.
97 - aio_read/aio_write will now set the readonly flag on the data
98 scalar for better error reporting.
99
100 1.2 Wed Aug 17 01:22:58 CEST 2005
101 - verified on cygwin, linux/amd64+ia32+alpha, solaris.
102 - use SvPVbyte for filenames now. You *need* to encode your strings to
103 the external filename encoding first.
104 - fix the bug where filehandles could leak (again).
105 - clarify freebsd situation: make it work and tell me how, or go away
106 with your underdocumented, broken and outdated OS.
107 - fork'ing should now be officially supported (where linux and
108 posix contradict each other, I followed posix).
109 - only call read() once per poll, not twice (speedup).
110 - new functions: aio_rmdir, aio_symlink.
111 - force callback arguments to be undef or a reference, for better
112 error catching.
113
114 1.1 Sun Aug 7 05:27:23 CEST 2005
115 - added configure script to detect availability of some calls.
116 (imperfect, as we cannot detect things like -lrt due to missing
117 feedback yet).
118 - emulate fdatasync via fsync, pread/pwrite via unsafe read/write
119 and readahead via manual reading on platforms lacking those.
120 - ported t/03_errors.t+framework by Brad Fitzpatrick
121 from Linux::AIO.
122 - removed XOPEN_SOURCE because stupid solaris 9 doesn't
123 compile with it enabled. Probably breaks others. Oh well.
124 - try to be more careful with errno on non-threaded perls.
125 - cygwins perl insisted on a matching open mode when morphing
126 the fd to an fh.
127 - convert sv's to "byte" encoding in aio_read/aio_write. Might
128 do that for pathnames, too, in the future, so make sure you
129 properly encode your pathnames.
130
131 1.0 Fri Jul 22 10:43:30 CEST 2005
132 - aio_open did not reliably deliver (open) filehandles.
133 - all aio_*-functions keep a reference to the filehandle so
134 it doesn't go away while the aio requests is working on it.
135 - disable warnings in AIO.pm.
136
137 0.9 Wed Jul 20 23:55:04 CEST 2005
138 - allow recursive calls to poll_cb, use less locking calls, too.
139 - fix the Gtk2-example in the SYNOPSIS.
140 - use pread/pwrite not pread64/pwrite64. this was simply a leftover
141 from Linux::AIO.
142 (found by compiling on cygwin. Unfortunately, cygwin declares but
143 does not implement pread/pwrite).
144 - only include <sys/syscall.h> on linux.
145
146 0.5 Tue Jul 12 13:03:09 CEST 2005
147 - removed #include <endian.h>, it's not portable, and we don't
148 need it anyway.
149 - link against -lrt, as it might contain goodies such as fdatasync,
150 and often aio_read, which we do not use yet, but it shouldn't hurt.
151
152 0.4 Mon Jul 11 05:28:25 CEST 2005
153 - added IO::AIO::flush, IO::AIO::poll.
154 - make callback argument optional for all calls.
155
156 0.3 Mon Jul 11 01:42:37 CEST 2005
157 - restructured manpage.
158 - added SYNOPSIS with examples for Event, Glib, Tk.
159 - remove explicit context support so I don't have to maintain
160 it for threaded perls (i.e. it should work now :).
161
162 0.2 Sun Jul 10 22:57:12 CEST 2005
163 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
164 - get rid of the request pipe and use faster thread-thread
165 communications for most requests and responses.
166
167 0.1
168 - cloned from Linux::AIO, which is very similar.
169