ViewVC Help
View File | Revision Log | Show Annotations | Download File
/cvs/libev/Changes
Revision: 1.133
Committed: Sun Jul 19 01:36:34 2009 UTC (14 years, 9 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.132: +8 -0 lines
Log Message:
*** empty log message ***

File Contents

# 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 root 1.133 TODO: signalfd
6    
7     TODO: document signalfd procmask
8     - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
9     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
10     - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
11     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
12     state when using libev's signal handling.
13 root 1.132
14 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
15 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
16     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
17     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
18     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
19 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
20 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
21     about thread locking.
22 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
23     - add ev_loop_depth.
24 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
25     for new events.
26 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
27     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
28     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
29     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
30 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
31 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
32 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
33     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
34 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
35 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
36 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
37 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
38 root 1.115
39 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
40 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
41     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
42 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
43     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
44     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
45     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
46 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
47     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
48     Malek Hadj-Ali).
49 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
50 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
51 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
52     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
53 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
54 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
55 root 1.102
56 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
57     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
58     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
59 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
60     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
61     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
62     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
63     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
64    
65 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
66 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
67     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
68     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
69     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
70     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
71     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
72     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
73 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
74     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
75     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
76 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
77     should return fantasy port numbers.
78 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
79 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
80 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
81     a useless string instead of the expected version string
82     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
83 root 1.95
84 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
85 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
86 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
87 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
88     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
89 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
90     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
91     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
92 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
93     automatically.
94 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
95     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
96     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
97 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
98     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
99 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
100 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
101     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
102     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
103 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
104 root 1.87
105 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
106 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
107     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
108     "known to be good" list.
109 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
110     (analysed by Roger Pack).
111 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
112     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
113     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
114     with their C compiler.
115 root 1.83
116 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
117 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
118     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
119     ADD fails with EEXIST.
120 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
121 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
122 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
123     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
124 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
125     init functions.
126 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
127     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
128 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
129     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
130 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
131     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
132 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
133     do similar changes for event.c.
134 root 1.71
135 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
136 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
137     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
138     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
139 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
140 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
141 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
142     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
143 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
144 root 1.65
145 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
146     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
147     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
148 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
149 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
150 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
151 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
152 root 1.57
153 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
154 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
155 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
156 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
157     Matt Tolton).
158    
159 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
160 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
161     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
162 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
163     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
164 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
165 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
166     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
167     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
168     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
169     reported by Matt Tolton.
170 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
171 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
172 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
173     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
174     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
175 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
176     and some other default values.
177 root 1.45
178 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
179 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
180 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
181 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
182 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
183     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
184     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
185     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
186     2-based heaps.
187 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
188     memory accesses.
189     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
190 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
191 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
192     - improve ev_stat docs.
193     - add portability requirements section.
194 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
195 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
196 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
197     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
198 root 1.31
199 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
200     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
201 root 1.29
202 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
203 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
204     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
205 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
206     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
207     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
208 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
209     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
210     C99 or gcc are available.
211     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
212 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
213     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
214     (no such systems are known at this time).
215 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
216     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
217     go away (noted by various people).
218 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
219     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
220     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
221 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
222 root 1.20
223 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
224 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
225     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
226 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
227 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
228     flags of any outer loops anymore.
229 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
230 root 1.15
231 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
232 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
233 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
234     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
235 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
236 root 1.10
237 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
238 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
239 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
240     - slightly improved documentation.
241 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
242 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
243     watchers.
244 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
245 root 1.4
246 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
247 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
248 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
249     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
250     - change how include files are found.
251     - doc updates.
252     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
253    
254     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
255     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
256     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
257     - fix embed watchers.
258     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
259     - added exported Symbol tables.
260     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
261     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
262    
263     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
264     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
265    
266     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
267     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
268     (not relevant for perl).
269    
270     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
271    
272 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
273     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
274