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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 1.124 TODO: EV_MINIMAL
7 root 1.119 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
8     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
9 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
10     for new events.
11 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
12 root 1.118 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
13 root 1.115 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
14     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
15     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
16 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
17 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
18 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
19     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
20 root 1.119 - implement ev_loop_depth.
21 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
22 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
23 root 1.115
24 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
25 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
26     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
27 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
28     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
29     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
30     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
31 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
32     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
33     Malek Hadj-Ali).
34 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
35 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
36 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
37     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
38 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
39 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
40 root 1.102
41 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
42     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
43     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
44 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
45     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
46     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
47     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
48     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
49    
50 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
51 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
52     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
53     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
54     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
55     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
56     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
57     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
58 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
59     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
60     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
61 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
62     should return fantasy port numbers.
63 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
64 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
65 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
66     a useless string instead of the expected version string
67     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
68 root 1.95
69 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
70 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
71 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
72 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
73     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
74 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
75     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
76     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
77 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
78     automatically.
79 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
80     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
81     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
82 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
83     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
84 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
85 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
86     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
87     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
88 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
89 root 1.87
90 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
91 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
92     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
93     "known to be good" list.
94 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
95     (analysed by Roger Pack).
96 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
97     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
98     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
99     with their C compiler.
100 root 1.83
101 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
102 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
103     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
104     ADD fails with EEXIST.
105 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
106 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
107 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
108     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
109 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
110     init functions.
111 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
112     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
113 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
114     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
115 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
116     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
117 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
118     do similar changes for event.c.
119 root 1.71
120 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
121 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
122     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
123     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
124 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
125 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
126 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
127     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
128 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
129 root 1.65
130 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
131     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
132     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
133 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
134 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
135 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
136 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
137 root 1.57
138 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
139 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
140 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
141 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
142     Matt Tolton).
143    
144 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
145 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
146     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
147 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
148     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
149 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
150 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
151     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
152     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
153     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
154     reported by Matt Tolton.
155 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
156 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
157 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
158     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
159     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
160 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
161     and some other default values.
162 root 1.45
163 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
164 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
165 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
166 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
167 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
168     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
169     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
170     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
171     2-based heaps.
172 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
173     memory accesses.
174     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
175 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
176 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
177     - improve ev_stat docs.
178     - add portability requirements section.
179 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
180 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
181 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
182     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
183 root 1.31
184 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
185     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
186 root 1.29
187 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
188 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
189     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
190 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
191     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
192     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
193 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
194     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
195     C99 or gcc are available.
196     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
197 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
198     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
199     (no such systems are known at this time).
200 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
201     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
202     go away (noted by various people).
203 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
204     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
205     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
206 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
207 root 1.20
208 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
209 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
210     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
211 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
212 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
213     flags of any outer loops anymore.
214 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
215 root 1.15
216 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
217 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
218 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
219     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
220 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
221 root 1.10
222 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
223 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
224 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
225     - slightly improved documentation.
226 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
227 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
228     watchers.
229 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
230 root 1.4
231 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
232 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
233 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
234     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
235     - change how include files are found.
236     - doc updates.
237     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
238    
239     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
240     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
241     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
242     - fix embed watchers.
243     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
244     - added exported Symbol tables.
245     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
246     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
247    
248     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
249     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
250    
251     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
252     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
253     (not relevant for perl).
254    
255     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
256    
257 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
258     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
259