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Revision: 1.125
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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 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
24 root 1.115
25 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
26 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
27     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
28 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
29     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
30     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
31     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
32 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
33     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
34     Malek Hadj-Ali).
35 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
36 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
37 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
38     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
39 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
40 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
41 root 1.102
42 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
43     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
44     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
45 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
46     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
47     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
48     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
49     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
50    
51 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
52 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
53     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
54     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
55     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
56     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
57     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
58     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
59 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
60     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
61     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
62 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
63     should return fantasy port numbers.
64 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
65 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
66 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
67     a useless string instead of the expected version string
68     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
69 root 1.95
70 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
71 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
72 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
73 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
74     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
75 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
76     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
77     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
78 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
79     automatically.
80 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
81     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
82     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
83 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
84     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
85 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
86 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
87     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
88     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
89 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
90 root 1.87
91 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
92 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
93     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
94     "known to be good" list.
95 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
96     (analysed by Roger Pack).
97 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
98     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
99     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
100     with their C compiler.
101 root 1.83
102 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
103 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
104     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
105     ADD fails with EEXIST.
106 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
107 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
108 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
109     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
110 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
111     init functions.
112 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
113     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
114 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
115     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
116 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
117     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
118 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
119     do similar changes for event.c.
120 root 1.71
121 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
122 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
123     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
124     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
125 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
126 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
127 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
128     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
129 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
130 root 1.65
131 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
132     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
133     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
134 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
135 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
136 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
137 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
138 root 1.57
139 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
140 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
141 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
142 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
143     Matt Tolton).
144    
145 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
146 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
147     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
148 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
149     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
150 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
151 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
152     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
153     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
154     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
155     reported by Matt Tolton.
156 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
157 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
158 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
159     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
160     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
161 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
162     and some other default values.
163 root 1.45
164 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
165 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
166 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
167 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
168 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
169     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
170     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
171     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
172     2-based heaps.
173 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
174     memory accesses.
175     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
176 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
177 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
178     - improve ev_stat docs.
179     - add portability requirements section.
180 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
181 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
182 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
183     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
184 root 1.31
185 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
186     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
187 root 1.29
188 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
189 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
190     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
191 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
192     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
193     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
194 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
195     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
196     C99 or gcc are available.
197     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
198 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
199     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
200     (no such systems are known at this time).
201 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
202     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
203     go away (noted by various people).
204 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
205     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
206     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
207 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
208 root 1.20
209 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
210 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
211     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
212 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
213 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
214     flags of any outer loops anymore.
215 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
216 root 1.15
217 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
218 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
219 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
220     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
221 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
222 root 1.10
223 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
224 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
225 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
226     - slightly improved documentation.
227 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
228 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
229     watchers.
230 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
231 root 1.4
232 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
233 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
234 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
235     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
236     - change how include files are found.
237     - doc updates.
238     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
239    
240     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
241     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
242     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
243     - fix embed watchers.
244     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
245     - added exported Symbol tables.
246     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
247     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
248    
249     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
250     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
251    
252     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
253     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
254     (not relevant for perl).
255    
256     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
257    
258 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
259     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
260