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