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Revision: 1.131
Committed: Fri Jul 17 14:43:38 2009 UTC (14 years, 10 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_7
Changes since 1.130: +1 -3 lines
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3.7

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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 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
4 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
5     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
6     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
7     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
8 root 1.126 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 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
12     - add ev_loop_depth.
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     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
17     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
18     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
19 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
20 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
21 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
22     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
23 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
24 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
25 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
26 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
27 root 1.115
28 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
29 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
30     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
31 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
32     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
33     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
34     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
35 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
36     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
37     Malek Hadj-Ali).
38 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
39 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
40 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
41     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
42 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
43 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
44 root 1.102
45 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
46     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
47     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
48 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
49     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
50     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
51     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
52     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
53    
54 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
55 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
56     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
57     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
58     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
59     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
60     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
61     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
62 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
63     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
64     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
65 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
66     should return fantasy port numbers.
67 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
68 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
69 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
70     a useless string instead of the expected version string
71     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
72 root 1.95
73 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
74 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
75 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
76 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
77     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
78 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
79     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
80     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
81 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
82     automatically.
83 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
84     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
85     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
86 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
87     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
88 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
89 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
90     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
91     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
92 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
93 root 1.87
94 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
95 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
96     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
97     "known to be good" list.
98 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
99     (analysed by Roger Pack).
100 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
101     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
102     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
103     with their C compiler.
104 root 1.83
105 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
106 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
107     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
108     ADD fails with EEXIST.
109 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
110 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
111 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
112     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
113 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
114     init functions.
115 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
116     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
117 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
118     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
119 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
120     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
121 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
122     do similar changes for event.c.
123 root 1.71
124 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
125 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
126     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
127     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
128 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
129 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
130 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
131     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
132 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
133 root 1.65
134 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
135     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
136     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
137 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
138 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
139 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
140 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
141 root 1.57
142 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
143 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
144 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
145 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
146     Matt Tolton).
147    
148 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
149 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
150     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
151 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
152     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
153 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
154 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
155     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
156     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
157     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
158     reported by Matt Tolton.
159 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
160 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
161 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
162     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
163     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
164 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
165     and some other default values.
166 root 1.45
167 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
168 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
169 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
170 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
171 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
172     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
173     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
174     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
175     2-based heaps.
176 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
177     memory accesses.
178     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
179 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
180 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
181     - improve ev_stat docs.
182     - add portability requirements section.
183 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
184 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
185 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
186     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
187 root 1.31
188 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
189     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
190 root 1.29
191 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
192 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
193     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
194 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
195     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
196     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
197 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
198     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
199     C99 or gcc are available.
200     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
201 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
202     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
203     (no such systems are known at this time).
204 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
205     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
206     go away (noted by various people).
207 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
208     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
209     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
210 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
211 root 1.20
212 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
213 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
214     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
215 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
216 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
217     flags of any outer loops anymore.
218 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
219 root 1.15
220 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
221 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
222 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
223     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
224 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
225 root 1.10
226 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
227 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
228 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
229     - slightly improved documentation.
230 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
231 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
232     watchers.
233 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
234 root 1.4
235 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
236 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
237 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
238     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
239     - change how include files are found.
240     - doc updates.
241     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
242    
243     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
244     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
245     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
246     - fix embed watchers.
247     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
248     - added exported Symbol tables.
249     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
250     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
251    
252     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
253     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
254    
255     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
256     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
257     (not relevant for perl).
258    
259     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
260    
261 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
262     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
263