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Revision: 1.122
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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: remain
5 root 1.122 TODO: on_call_pending, on_suspend_resume ev_invoke_pending (EV_P)
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 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
16     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
17 root 1.119 - implement ev_loop_depth.
18 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
19 root 1.115
20 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
21 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
22     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
23 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
24     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
25     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
26     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
27 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
28     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
29     Malek Hadj-Ali).
30 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
31 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
32 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
33     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
34 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
35 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
36 root 1.102
37 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
38     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
39     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
40 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
41     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
42     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
43     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
44     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
45    
46 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
47 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
48     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
49     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
50     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
51     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
52     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
53     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
54 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
55     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
56     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
57 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
58     should return fantasy port numbers.
59 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
60 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
61 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
62     a useless string instead of the expected version string
63     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
64 root 1.95
65 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
66 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
67 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
68 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
69     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
70 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
71     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
72     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
73 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
74     automatically.
75 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
76     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
77     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
78 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
79     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
80 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
81 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
82     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
83     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
84 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
85 root 1.87
86 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
87 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
88     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
89     "known to be good" list.
90 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
91     (analysed by Roger Pack).
92 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
93     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
94     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
95     with their C compiler.
96 root 1.83
97 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
98 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
99     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
100     ADD fails with EEXIST.
101 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
102 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
103 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
104     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
105 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
106     init functions.
107 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
108     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
109 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
110     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
111 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
112     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
113 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
114     do similar changes for event.c.
115 root 1.71
116 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
117 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
118     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
119     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
120 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
121 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
122 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
123     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
124 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
125 root 1.65
126 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
127     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
128     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
129 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
130 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
131 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
132 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
133 root 1.57
134 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
135 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
136 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
137 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
138     Matt Tolton).
139    
140 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
141 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
142     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
143 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
144     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
145 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
146 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
147     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
148     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
149     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
150     reported by Matt Tolton.
151 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
152 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
153 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
154     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
155     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
156 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
157     and some other default values.
158 root 1.45
159 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
160 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
161 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
162 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
163 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
164     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
165     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
166     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
167     2-based heaps.
168 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
169     memory accesses.
170     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
171 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
172 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
173     - improve ev_stat docs.
174     - add portability requirements section.
175 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
176 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
177 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
178     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
179 root 1.31
180 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
181     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
182 root 1.29
183 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
184 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
185     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
186 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
187     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
188     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
189 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
190     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
191     C99 or gcc are available.
192     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
193 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
194     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
195     (no such systems are known at this time).
196 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
197     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
198     go away (noted by various people).
199 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
200     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
201     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
202 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
203 root 1.20
204 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
205 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
206     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
207 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
208 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
209     flags of any outer loops anymore.
210 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
211 root 1.15
212 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
213 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
214 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
215     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
216 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
217 root 1.10
218 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
219 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
220 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
221     - slightly improved documentation.
222 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
223 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
224     watchers.
225 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
226 root 1.4
227 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
228 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
229 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
230     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
231     - change how include files are found.
232     - doc updates.
233     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
234    
235     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
236     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
237     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
238     - fix embed watchers.
239     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
240     - added exported Symbol tables.
241     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
242     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
243    
244     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
245     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
246    
247     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
248     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
249     (not relevant for perl).
250    
251     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
252    
253 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
254     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
255