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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 1.124 TODO: EV_MINIMAL
6 root 1.126
7     - new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
8     ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
9     ev_invoke_pending, together with a long example about thread
10     locking.
11 root 1.119 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
12     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
13 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
14     for new events.
15 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
16 root 1.118 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
17 root 1.115 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
18     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
19     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
20 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
21 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
22 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
23     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
24 root 1.119 - implement ev_loop_depth.
25 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
26 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
27 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
28 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
29 root 1.115
30 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
31 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
32     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
33 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
34     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
35     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
36     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
37 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
38     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
39     Malek Hadj-Ali).
40 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
41 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
42 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
43     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
44 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
45 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
46 root 1.102
47 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
48     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
49     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
50 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
51     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
52     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
53     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
54     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
55    
56 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
57 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
58     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
59     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
60     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
61     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
62     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
63     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
64 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
65     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
66     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
67 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
68     should return fantasy port numbers.
69 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
70 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
71 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
72     a useless string instead of the expected version string
73     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
74 root 1.95
75 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
76 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
77 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
78 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
79     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
80 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
81     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
82     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
83 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
84     automatically.
85 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
86     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
87     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
88 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
89     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
90 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
91 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
92     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
93     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
94 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
95 root 1.87
96 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
97 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
98     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
99     "known to be good" list.
100 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
101     (analysed by Roger Pack).
102 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
103     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
104     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
105     with their C compiler.
106 root 1.83
107 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
108 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
109     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
110     ADD fails with EEXIST.
111 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
112 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
113 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
114     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
115 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
116     init functions.
117 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
118     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
119 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
120     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
121 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
122     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
123 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
124     do similar changes for event.c.
125 root 1.71
126 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
127 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
128     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
129     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
130 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
131 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
132 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
133     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
134 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
135 root 1.65
136 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
137     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
138     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
139 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
140 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
141 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
142 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
143 root 1.57
144 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
145 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
146 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
147 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
148     Matt Tolton).
149    
150 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
151 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
152     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
153 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
154     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
155 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
156 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
157     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
158     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
159     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
160     reported by Matt Tolton.
161 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
162 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
163 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
164     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
165     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
166 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
167     and some other default values.
168 root 1.45
169 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
170 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
171 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
172 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
173 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
174     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
175     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
176     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
177     2-based heaps.
178 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
179     memory accesses.
180     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
181 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
182 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
183     - improve ev_stat docs.
184     - add portability requirements section.
185 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
186 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
187 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
188     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
189 root 1.31
190 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
191     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
192 root 1.29
193 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
194 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
195     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
196 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
197     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
198     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
199 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
200     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
201     C99 or gcc are available.
202     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
203 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
204     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
205     (no such systems are known at this time).
206 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
207     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
208     go away (noted by various people).
209 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
210     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
211     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
212 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
213 root 1.20
214 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
215 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
216     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
217 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
218 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
219     flags of any outer loops anymore.
220 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
221 root 1.15
222 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
223 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
224 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
225     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
226 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
227 root 1.10
228 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
229 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
230 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
231     - slightly improved documentation.
232 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
233 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
234     watchers.
235 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
236 root 1.4
237 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
238 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
239 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
240     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
241     - change how include files are found.
242     - doc updates.
243     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
244    
245     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
246     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
247     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
248     - fix embed watchers.
249     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
250     - added exported Symbol tables.
251     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
252     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
253    
254     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
255     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
256    
257     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
258     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
259     (not relevant for perl).
260    
261     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
262    
263 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
264     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
265