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Revision: 1.40
Committed: Wed Feb 1 23:47:26 2006 UTC (18 years, 3 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_9, HEAD
Changes since 1.39: +1 -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3 This module has been mostly superseded by IO::AIO, which is API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 1.9 Thu Feb 2 00:46:46 CET 2006
11 - added patch by Nicholas Clark to force optimization,
12 which is required for syscalls to be inlined on ia32.
13
14 1.8 Wed Aug 17 18:56:14 CEST 2005
15 - return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
16 - use <linux/unistd.h> and try to make it work.
17 - replaced tests by better ones by Brad Fitzpatrick.
18 - fix a bug where the data scalar would be truncated if
19 the data offset is != 0.
20
21 1.71 Sun Jul 10 19:11:36 CEST 2005
22 - aio_readahead was missing in 1.7.
23 - xs fixes for some perls.
24 - remind people to use absolute paths.
25 - add reference to IO::AIO, its brother.
26
27 1.7 Sun Jul 10 01:40:00 CEST 2005
28 - further cleanups and simplifications.
29 - new functions: aio_fsync, aio_fdatasync, aio_readahead.
30 - vastly improved documentation.
31
32 1.6 Fri Jul 8 01:17:04 CEST 2005
33 - added changes for alpha, ia64, sparc64, hppa, v850 (thanks to Stefan Traby who
34 dedusted his old machines).
35 - added t/02_read.t.
36
37 1.51 Sat Jul 2 15:18:21 CEST 2005
38 - last release was borked.
39 - killing threads increases nreqs count infinitely.
40 - fixed a bug in queueing => many outstanding
41 requests lead to starvation.
42 - new function Linux::AIO::poll_wait.
43 - documented Linux::AIO::max_parallel.
44
45 1.41 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
46 - change of contact address.
47
48 1.4 Sat Jan 15 01:04:27 CET 2005
49 - clarify licensing (same terms as perl itself).
50
51 1.3 Sat Aug 7 17:25:31 CEST 2004
52 - ported to AMD64, possibly other 64 bit architecturs
53 (inspired by Joshua Hoblitt).
54 - removed support for old libcs, kernels (2.2).
55
56 1.2 Sun Jul 18 12:54:43 CEST 2004
57 - do not clone signal handlers.
58 - when the parent thread dies, kill the child threads.
59 - added aio_unlink support (Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>)
60
61 1.1 Fri May 7 02:57:36 CEST 2004
62 - the number of outstanding requests was limited by the
63 pipe buffer size. this limit has been removed.
64 - improve documentation of min_parallel.
65 - one thread will now be started by default.
66
67 1.01 Thu May 6 14:16:08 CEST 2004
68 - better support threaded perls.
69
70 1.0 Wed May 5 15:54:23 CEST 2004
71 - improved the documentation and made a 1.0 release. Whoopa!
72
73 0.2 Wed May 5 12:13:02 CEST 2004
74 - updates for 2.6 headers (syscalls were renamed).
75
76 0.111 Sat May 18 23:47:12 CEST 2002
77 - print a notice that this module won't run on lnux <2.4.
78
79 0.11 Fri May 17 04:33:23 CEST 2002
80 - actually fix the module to work on x86 (doesn't work on
81 most other architectures, though).
82
83 0.1 Tue Apr 2 04:35:28 CEST 2002
84 - use pread/pwrite instead of lseek+read/write.
85 - fixed syscall prototypes.
86 - add stat/lstat calls.
87 - fixed max_parallel deadlock problem.
88 - beginning of a testsuite.
89 - fixed aio_close.
90 - paths are now properly saved.
91
92 0.011 Tue Dec 25 03:02:30 CET 2001
93 - make it compile with 5.6.1 and maybe older versions. Boy is it
94 ugly now.
95
96 0.01 Mon Oct 8 14:57:59 CEST 2001
97 - fixed syntax errors so it compiles with gcc-2.95.4 as well.
98
99 0.002
100 - added Changes, aio_open, aio_close.
101
102 0.001
103 - original version, a dire hack.