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Revision: 1.138
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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 1.138 TODO: gotsig per-loop
8 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
9     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
10 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
11 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
12     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
13 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
14     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
15     state when using libev's signal handling.
16 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
17     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
18 root 1.132
19 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
20 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
21     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
22     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
23     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
24 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
25 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
26     about thread locking.
27 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
28     - add ev_loop_depth.
29 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
30     for new events.
31 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
32     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
33     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
34     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
35 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
36 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
37 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
38     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
39 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
40 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
41 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
42 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
43 root 1.115
44 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
45 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
46     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
47 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
48     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
49     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
50     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
51 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
52     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
53     Malek Hadj-Ali).
54 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
55 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
56 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
57     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
58 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
59 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
60 root 1.102
61 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
62     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
63     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
64 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
65     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
66     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
67     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
68     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
69    
70 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
71 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
72     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
73     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
74     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
75     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
76     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
77     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
78 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
79     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
80     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
81 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
82     should return fantasy port numbers.
83 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
84 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
85 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
86     a useless string instead of the expected version string
87     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
88 root 1.95
89 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
90 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
91 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
92 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
93     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
94 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
95     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
96     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
97 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
98     automatically.
99 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
100     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
101     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
102 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
103     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
104 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
105 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
106     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
107     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
108 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
109 root 1.87
110 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
111 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
112     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
113     "known to be good" list.
114 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
115     (analysed by Roger Pack).
116 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
117     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
118     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
119     with their C compiler.
120 root 1.83
121 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
122 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
123     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
124     ADD fails with EEXIST.
125 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
126 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
127 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
128     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
129 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
130     init functions.
131 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
132     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
133 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
134     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
135 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
136     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
137 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
138     do similar changes for event.c.
139 root 1.71
140 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
141 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
142     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
143     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
144 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
145 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
146 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
147     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
148 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
149 root 1.65
150 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
151     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
152     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
153 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
154 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
155 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
156 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
157 root 1.57
158 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
159 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
160 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
161 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
162     Matt Tolton).
163    
164 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
165 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
166     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
167 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
168     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
169 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
170 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
171     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
172     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
173     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
174     reported by Matt Tolton.
175 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
176 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
177 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
178     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
179     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
180 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
181     and some other default values.
182 root 1.45
183 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
184 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
185 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
186 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
187 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
188     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
189     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
190     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
191     2-based heaps.
192 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
193     memory accesses.
194     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
195 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
196 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
197     - improve ev_stat docs.
198     - add portability requirements section.
199 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
200 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
201 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
202     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
203 root 1.31
204 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
205     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
206 root 1.29
207 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
208 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
209     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
210 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
211     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
212     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
213 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
214     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
215     C99 or gcc are available.
216     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
217 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
218     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
219     (no such systems are known at this time).
220 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
221     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
222     go away (noted by various people).
223 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
224     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
225     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
226 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
227 root 1.20
228 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
229 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
230     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
231 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
232 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
233     flags of any outer loops anymore.
234 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
235 root 1.15
236 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
237 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
238 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
239     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
240 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
241 root 1.10
242 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
243 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
244 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
245     - slightly improved documentation.
246 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
247 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
248     watchers.
249 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
250 root 1.4
251 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
252 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
253 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
254     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
255     - change how include files are found.
256     - doc updates.
257     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
258    
259     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
260     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
261     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
262     - fix embed watchers.
263     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
264     - added exported Symbol tables.
265     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
266     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
267    
268     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
269     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
270    
271     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
272     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
273     (not relevant for perl).
274    
275     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
276    
277 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
278     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
279