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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 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
20 root 1.115
21 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
22 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
23     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
24 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
25     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
26     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
27     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
28 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
29     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
30     Malek Hadj-Ali).
31 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
32 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
33 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
34     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
35 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
36 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
37 root 1.102
38 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
39     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
40     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
41 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
42     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
43     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
44     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
45     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
46    
47 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
48 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
49     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
50     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
51     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
52     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
53     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
54     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
55 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
56     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
57     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
58 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
59     should return fantasy port numbers.
60 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
61 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
62 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
63     a useless string instead of the expected version string
64     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
65 root 1.95
66 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
67 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
68 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
69 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
70     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
71 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
72     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
73     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
74 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
75     automatically.
76 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
77     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
78     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
79 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
80     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
81 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
82 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
83     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
84     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
85 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
86 root 1.87
87 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
88 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
89     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
90     "known to be good" list.
91 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
92     (analysed by Roger Pack).
93 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
94     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
95     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
96     with their C compiler.
97 root 1.83
98 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
99 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
100     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
101     ADD fails with EEXIST.
102 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
103 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
104 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
105     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
106 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
107     init functions.
108 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
109     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
110 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
111     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
112 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
113     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
114 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
115     do similar changes for event.c.
116 root 1.71
117 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
118 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
119     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
120     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
121 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
122 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
123 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
124     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
125 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
126 root 1.65
127 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
128     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
129     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
130 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
131 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
132 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
133 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
134 root 1.57
135 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
136 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
137 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
138 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
139     Matt Tolton).
140    
141 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
142 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
143     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
144 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
145     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
146 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
147 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
148     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
149     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
150     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
151     reported by Matt Tolton.
152 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
153 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
154 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
155     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
156     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
157 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
158     and some other default values.
159 root 1.45
160 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
161 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
162 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
163 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
164 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
165     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
166     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
167     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
168     2-based heaps.
169 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
170     memory accesses.
171     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
172 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
173 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
174     - improve ev_stat docs.
175     - add portability requirements section.
176 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
177 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
178 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
179     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
180 root 1.31
181 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
182     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
183 root 1.29
184 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
185 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
186     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
187 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
188     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
189     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
190 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
191     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
192     C99 or gcc are available.
193     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
194 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
195     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
196     (no such systems are known at this time).
197 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
198     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
199     go away (noted by various people).
200 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
201     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
202     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
203 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
204 root 1.20
205 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
206 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
207     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
208 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
209 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
210     flags of any outer loops anymore.
211 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
212 root 1.15
213 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
214 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
215 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
216     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
217 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
218 root 1.10
219 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
220 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
221 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
222     - slightly improved documentation.
223 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
224 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
225     watchers.
226 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
227 root 1.4
228 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
229 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
230 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
231     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
232     - change how include files are found.
233     - doc updates.
234     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
235    
236     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
237     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
238     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
239     - fix embed watchers.
240     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
241     - added exported Symbol tables.
242     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
243     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
244    
245     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
246     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
247    
248     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
249     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
250     (not relevant for perl).
251    
252     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
253    
254 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
255     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
256