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Revision: 1.132
Committed: Fri Jul 17 14:49:33 2009 UTC (14 years, 10 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
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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 1.132 TODO: ev_walk
4     TODO: signal handling per loop
5    
6 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
7 root 1.128 - 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     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
10     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
11 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
12 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
13     about thread locking.
14 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
15     - add ev_loop_depth.
16 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
17     for new events.
18 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
19     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
20     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
21     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
22 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
23 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
24 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
25     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
26 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
27 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
28 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
29 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
30 root 1.115
31 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
32 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
33     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
34 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
35     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
36     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
37     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
38 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
39     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
40     Malek Hadj-Ali).
41 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
42 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
43 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
44     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
45 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
46 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
47 root 1.102
48 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
49     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
50     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
51 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
52     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
53     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
54     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
55     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
56    
57 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
58 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
59     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
60     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
61     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
62     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
63     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
64     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
65 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
66     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
67     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
68 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
69     should return fantasy port numbers.
70 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
71 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
72 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
73     a useless string instead of the expected version string
74     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
75 root 1.95
76 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
77 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
78 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
79 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
80     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
81 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
82     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
83     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
84 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
85     automatically.
86 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
87     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
88     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
89 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
90     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
91 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
92 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
93     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
94     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
95 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
96 root 1.87
97 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
98 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
99     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
100     "known to be good" list.
101 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
102     (analysed by Roger Pack).
103 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
104     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
105     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
106     with their C compiler.
107 root 1.83
108 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
109 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
110     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
111     ADD fails with EEXIST.
112 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
113 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
114 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
115     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
116 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
117     init functions.
118 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
119     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
120 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
121     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
122 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
123     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
124 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
125     do similar changes for event.c.
126 root 1.71
127 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
128 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
129     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
130     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
131 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
132 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
133 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
134     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
135 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
136 root 1.65
137 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
138     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
139     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
140 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
141 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
142 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
143 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
144 root 1.57
145 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
146 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
147 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
148 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
149     Matt Tolton).
150    
151 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
152 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
153     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
154 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
155     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
156 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
157 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
158     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
159     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
160     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
161     reported by Matt Tolton.
162 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
163 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
164 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
165     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
166     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
167 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
168     and some other default values.
169 root 1.45
170 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
171 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
172 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
173 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
174 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
175     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
176     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
177     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
178     2-based heaps.
179 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
180     memory accesses.
181     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
182 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
183 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
184     - improve ev_stat docs.
185     - add portability requirements section.
186 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
187 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
188 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
189     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
190 root 1.31
191 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
192     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
193 root 1.29
194 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
195 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
196     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
197 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
198     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
199     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
200 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
201     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
202     C99 or gcc are available.
203     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
204 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
205     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
206     (no such systems are known at this time).
207 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
208     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
209     go away (noted by various people).
210 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
211     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
212     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
213 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
214 root 1.20
215 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
216 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
217     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
218 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
219 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
220     flags of any outer loops anymore.
221 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
222 root 1.15
223 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
224 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
225 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
226     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
227 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
228 root 1.10
229 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
230 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
231 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
232     - slightly improved documentation.
233 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
234 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
235     watchers.
236 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
237 root 1.4
238 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
239 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
240 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
241     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
242     - change how include files are found.
243     - doc updates.
244     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
245    
246     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
247     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
248     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
249     - fix embed watchers.
250     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
251     - added exported Symbol tables.
252     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
253     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
254    
255     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
256     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
257    
258     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
259     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
260     (not relevant for perl).
261    
262     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
263    
264 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
265     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
266