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Revision: 1.137
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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 root 1.137 TODO: NSIG etc.
6     TODO: NOSIGFD/NOEVTFD/NOINOTIFY?
7 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
8     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
9 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
10 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
11     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
12 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
13     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
14     state when using libev's signal handling.
15 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
16     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
17 root 1.132
18 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
19 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
20     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
21     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
22     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
23 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
24 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
25     about thread locking.
26 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
27     - add ev_loop_depth.
28 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
29     for new events.
30 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
31     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
32     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
33     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
34 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
35 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
36 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
37     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
38 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
39 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
40 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
41 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
42 root 1.115
43 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
44 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
45     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
46 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
47     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
48     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
49     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
50 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
51     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
52     Malek Hadj-Ali).
53 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
54 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
55 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
56     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
57 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
58 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
59 root 1.102
60 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
61     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
62     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
63 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
64     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
65     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
66     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
67     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
68    
69 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
70 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
71     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
72     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
73     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
74     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
75     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
76     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
77 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
78     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
79     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
80 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
81     should return fantasy port numbers.
82 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
83 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
84 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
85     a useless string instead of the expected version string
86     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
87 root 1.95
88 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
89 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
90 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
91 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
92     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
93 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
94     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
95     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
96 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
97     automatically.
98 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
99     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
100     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
101 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
102     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
103 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
104 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
105     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
106     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
107 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
108 root 1.87
109 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
110 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
111     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
112     "known to be good" list.
113 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
114     (analysed by Roger Pack).
115 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
116     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
117     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
118     with their C compiler.
119 root 1.83
120 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
121 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
122     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
123     ADD fails with EEXIST.
124 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
125 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
126 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
127     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
128 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
129     init functions.
130 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
131     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
132 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
133     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
134 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
135     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
136 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
137     do similar changes for event.c.
138 root 1.71
139 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
140 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
141     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
142     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
143 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
144 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
145 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
146     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
147 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
148 root 1.65
149 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
150     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
151     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
152 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
153 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
154 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
155 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
156 root 1.57
157 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
158 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
159 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
160 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
161     Matt Tolton).
162    
163 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
164 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
165     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
166 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
167     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
168 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
169 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
170     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
171     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
172     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
173     reported by Matt Tolton.
174 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
175 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
176 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
177     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
178     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
179 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
180     and some other default values.
181 root 1.45
182 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
183 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
184 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
185 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
186 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
187     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
188     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
189     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
190     2-based heaps.
191 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
192     memory accesses.
193     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
194 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
195 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
196     - improve ev_stat docs.
197     - add portability requirements section.
198 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
199 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
200 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
201     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
202 root 1.31
203 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
204     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
205 root 1.29
206 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
207 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
208     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
209 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
210     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
211     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
212 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
213     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
214     C99 or gcc are available.
215     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
216 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
217     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
218     (no such systems are known at this time).
219 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
220     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
221     go away (noted by various people).
222 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
223     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
224     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
225 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
226 root 1.20
227 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
228 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
229     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
230 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
231 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
232     flags of any outer loops anymore.
233 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
234 root 1.15
235 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
236 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
237 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
238     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
239 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
240 root 1.10
241 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
242 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
243 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
244     - slightly improved documentation.
245 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
246 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
247     watchers.
248 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
249 root 1.4
250 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
251 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
252 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
253     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
254     - change how include files are found.
255     - doc updates.
256     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
257    
258     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
259     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
260     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
261     - fix embed watchers.
262     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
263     - added exported Symbol tables.
264     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
265     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
266    
267     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
268     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
269    
270     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
271     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
272     (not relevant for perl).
273    
274     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
275    
276 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
277     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
278