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Revision: 1.37
Committed: Wed Aug 17 16:57:53 2005 UTC (18 years, 9 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_8
Changes since 1.36: +6 -1 lines
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# Content
1 Revision history for Linux::AIO
2
3 This module has been mostly superseded by IO::AIO, which is API
4 compatible.
5
6 * works on: ia32, amd64, alpha, sparc64.
7 * likely works on: s390, m68k, arm.
8 * unlikely to work on: ia64, hppa, v850, sparc32, mips64, ppc64.
9
10 1.8 Wed Aug 17 18:56:14 CEST 2005
11 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
12 - use <linux/unistd.h> and try to make it work.
13 - replaced tests by better ones by Brad Fitzpatrick.
14 - fix a bug where the data scalar would be truncated if
15 the data offset is != 0.
16
17 1.71 Sun Jul 10 19:11:36 CEST 2005
18 - aio_readahead was missing in 1.7.
19 - xs fixes for some perls.
20 - remind people to use absolute paths.
21 - add reference to IO::AIO, it's brother.
22
23 1.7 Sun Jul 10 01:40:00 CEST 2005
24 - further cleanups and simplifications.
25 - new functions: aio_fsync, aio_fdatasync, aio_readahead.
26 - vastly improved documentation.
27
28 1.6 Fri Jul 8 01:17:04 CEST 2005
29 - added changes for alpha, ia64, sparc64, hppa, v850 (thanks to Stefan Traby who
30 dedusted his old machines).
31 - added t/02_read.t.
32
33 1.51 Sat Jul 2 15:18:21 CEST 2005
34 - last release was borked.
35 - killing threads increases nreqs count infinitely.
36 - fixed a bug in queueing => many outstanding
37 requests lead to starvation.
38 - new function Linux::AIO::poll_wait.
39 - documented Linux::AIO::max_parallel.
40
41 1.41 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
42 - change of contact address.
43
44 1.4 Sat Jan 15 01:04:27 CET 2005
45 - clarify licensing (same terms as perl itself).
46
47 1.3 Sat Aug 7 17:25:31 CEST 2004
48 - ported to AMD64, possibly other 64 bit architecturs
49 (inspired by Joshua Hoblitt).
50 - removed support for old libcs, kernels (2.2).
51
52 1.2 Sun Jul 18 12:54:43 CEST 2004
53 - do not clone signal handlers.
54 - when the parent thread dies, kill the child threads.
55 - added aio_unlink support (Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>)
56
57 1.1 Fri May 7 02:57:36 CEST 2004
58 - the number of outstanding requests was limited by the
59 pipe buffer size. this limit has been removed.
60 - improve documentation of min_parallel.
61 - one thread will now be started by default.
62
63 1.01 Thu May 6 14:16:08 CEST 2004
64 - better support threaded perls.
65
66 1.0 Wed May 5 15:54:23 CEST 2004
67 - improved the documentation and made a 1.0 release. Whoopa!
68
69 0.2 Wed May 5 12:13:02 CEST 2004
70 - updates for 2.6 headers (syscalls were renamed).
71
72 0.111 Sat May 18 23:47:12 CEST 2002
73 - print a notice that this module won't run on lnux <2.4.
74
75 0.11 Fri May 17 04:33:23 CEST 2002
76 - actually fix the module to work on x86 (doesn't work on
77 most other architectures, though).
78
79 0.1 Tue Apr 2 04:35:28 CEST 2002
80 - use pread/pwrite instead of lseek+read/write.
81 - fixed syscall prototypes.
82 - add stat/lstat calls.
83 - fixed max_parallel deadlock problem.
84 - beginning of a testsuite.
85 - fixed aio_close.
86 - paths are now properly saved.
87
88 0.011 Tue Dec 25 03:02:30 CET 2001
89 - make it compile with 5.6.1 and maybe older versions. Boy is it
90 ugly now.
91
92 0.01 Mon Oct 8 14:57:59 CEST 2001
93 - fixed syntax errors so it compiles with gcc-2.95.4 as well.
94
95 0.002
96 - added Changes, aio_open, aio_close.
97
98 0.001
99 - original version, a dire hack.