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Revision: 1.118
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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.14 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2 root 1.1
3 root 1.114 TODO: ev_walk
4 root 1.115 TODO: child wactehr execution order w.r.t. childsigcb reg. priorities
5     TODO: remain
6 root 1.118 TODO: io_collect documentation
7 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
8 root 1.118 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
9 root 1.115 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
10     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
11     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
12 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
13 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
14 root 1.115
15 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
16 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
17     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
18 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
19     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
20     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
21     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
22 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
23     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
24     Malek Hadj-Ali).
25 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
26 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
27 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
28     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
29 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
30 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
31 root 1.102
32 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
33     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
34     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
35 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
36     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
37     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
38     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
39     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
40    
41 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
42 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
43     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
44     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
45     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
46     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
47     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
48     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
49 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
50     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
51     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
52 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
53     should return fantasy port numbers.
54 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
55 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
56 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
57     a useless string instead of the expected version string
58     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
59 root 1.95
60 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
61 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
62 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
63 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
64     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
65 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
66     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
67     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
68 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
69     automatically.
70 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
71     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
72     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
73 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
74     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
75 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
76 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
77     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
78     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
79 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
80 root 1.87
81 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
82 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
83     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
84     "known to be good" list.
85 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
86     (analysed by Roger Pack).
87 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
88     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
89     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
90     with their C compiler.
91 root 1.83
92 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
93 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
94     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
95     ADD fails with EEXIST.
96 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
97 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
98 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
99     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
100 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
101     init functions.
102 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
103     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
104 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
105     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
106 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
107     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
108 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
109     do similar changes for event.c.
110 root 1.71
111 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
112 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
113     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
114     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
115 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
116 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
117 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
118     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
119 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
120 root 1.65
121 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
122     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
123     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
124 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
125 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
126 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
127 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
128 root 1.57
129 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
130 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
131 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
132 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
133     Matt Tolton).
134    
135 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
136 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
137     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
138 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
139     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
140 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
141 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
142     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
143     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
144     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
145     reported by Matt Tolton.
146 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
147 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
148 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
149     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
150     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
151 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
152     and some other default values.
153 root 1.45
154 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
155 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
156 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
157 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
158 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
159     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
160     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
161     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
162     2-based heaps.
163 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
164     memory accesses.
165     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
166 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
167 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
168     - improve ev_stat docs.
169     - add portability requirements section.
170 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
171 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
172 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
173     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
174 root 1.31
175 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
176     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
177 root 1.29
178 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
179 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
180     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
181 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
182     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
183     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
184 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
185     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
186     C99 or gcc are available.
187     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
188 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
189     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
190     (no such systems are known at this time).
191 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
192     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
193     go away (noted by various people).
194 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
195     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
196     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
197 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
198 root 1.20
199 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
200 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
201     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
202 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
203 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
204     flags of any outer loops anymore.
205 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
206 root 1.15
207 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
208 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
209 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
210     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
211 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
212 root 1.10
213 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
214 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
215 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
216     - slightly improved documentation.
217 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
218 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
219     watchers.
220 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
221 root 1.4
222 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
223 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
224 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
225     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
226     - change how include files are found.
227     - doc updates.
228     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
229    
230     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
231     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
232     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
233     - fix embed watchers.
234     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
235     - added exported Symbol tables.
236     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
237     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
238    
239     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
240     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
241    
242     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
243     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
244     (not relevant for perl).
245    
246     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
247    
248 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
249     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
250