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Revision: 1.119
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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 1.119 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
7     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
8 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
9 root 1.118 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
10 root 1.115 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
11     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
12     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
13 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
14 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
15 root 1.119 - properly declare ev_loop_verify even when !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
16     - implement ev_loop_depth.
17 root 1.115
18 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
19 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
20     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
21 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
22     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
23     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
24     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
25 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
26     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
27     Malek Hadj-Ali).
28 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
29 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
30 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
31     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
32 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
33 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
34 root 1.102
35 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
36     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
37     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
38 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
39     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
40     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
41     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
42     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
43    
44 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
45 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
46     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
47     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
48     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
49     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
50     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
51     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
52 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
53     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
54     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
55 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
56     should return fantasy port numbers.
57 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
58 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
59 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
60     a useless string instead of the expected version string
61     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
62 root 1.95
63 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
64 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
65 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
66 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
67     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
68 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
69     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
70     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
71 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
72     automatically.
73 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
74     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
75     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
76 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
77     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
78 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
79 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
80     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
81     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
82 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
83 root 1.87
84 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
85 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
86     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
87     "known to be good" list.
88 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
89     (analysed by Roger Pack).
90 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
91     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
92     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
93     with their C compiler.
94 root 1.83
95 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
96 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
97     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
98     ADD fails with EEXIST.
99 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
100 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
101 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
102     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
103 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
104     init functions.
105 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
106     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
107 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
108     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
109 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
110     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
111 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
112     do similar changes for event.c.
113 root 1.71
114 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
115 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
116     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
117     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
118 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
119 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
120 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
121     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
122 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
123 root 1.65
124 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
125     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
126     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
127 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
128 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
129 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
130 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
131 root 1.57
132 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
133 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
134 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
135 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
136     Matt Tolton).
137    
138 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
139 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
140     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
141 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
142     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
143 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
144 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
145     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
146     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
147     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
148     reported by Matt Tolton.
149 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
150 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
151 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
152     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
153     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
154 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
155     and some other default values.
156 root 1.45
157 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
158 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
159 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
160 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
161 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
162     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
163     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
164     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
165     2-based heaps.
166 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
167     memory accesses.
168     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
169 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
170 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
171     - improve ev_stat docs.
172     - add portability requirements section.
173 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
174 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
175 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
176     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
177 root 1.31
178 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
179     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
180 root 1.29
181 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
182 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
183     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
184 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
185     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
186     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
187 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
188     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
189     C99 or gcc are available.
190     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
191 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
192     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
193     (no such systems are known at this time).
194 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
195     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
196     go away (noted by various people).
197 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
198     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
199     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
200 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
201 root 1.20
202 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
203 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
204     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
205 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
206 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
207     flags of any outer loops anymore.
208 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
209 root 1.15
210 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
211 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
212 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
213     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
214 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
215 root 1.10
216 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
217 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
218 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
219     - slightly improved documentation.
220 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
221 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
222     watchers.
223 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
224 root 1.4
225 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
226 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
227 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
228     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
229     - change how include files are found.
230     - doc updates.
231     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
232    
233     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
234     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
235     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
236     - fix embed watchers.
237     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
238     - added exported Symbol tables.
239     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
240     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
241    
242     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
243     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
244    
245     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
246     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
247     (not relevant for perl).
248    
249     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
250    
251 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
252     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
253