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Revision: 1.144
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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 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
4 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
5     symbols to make ti easier for apps to do their own fd management.
6 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
7     (patch by Didier Spezia).
8 root 1.142
9 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
10 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
11     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
12 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
13 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
14     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
15 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
16     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
17     state when using libev's signal handling.
18 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
19     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
20 root 1.132
21 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
22 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
23     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
24     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
25     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
26 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
27 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
28     about thread locking.
29 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
30     - add ev_loop_depth.
31 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
32     for new events.
33 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
34     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
35     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
36     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
37 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
38 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
39 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
40     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
41 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
42 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
43 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
44 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
45 root 1.115
46 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
47 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
48     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
49 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
50     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
51     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
52     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
53 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
54     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
55     Malek Hadj-Ali).
56 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
57 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
58 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
59     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
60 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
61 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
62 root 1.102
63 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
64     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
65     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
66 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
67     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
68     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
69     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
70     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
71    
72 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
73 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
74     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
75     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
76     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
77     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
78     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
79     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
80 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
81     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
82     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
83 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
84     should return fantasy port numbers.
85 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
86 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
87 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
88     a useless string instead of the expected version string
89     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
90 root 1.95
91 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
92 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
93 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
94 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
95     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
96 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
97     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
98     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
99 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
100     automatically.
101 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
102     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
103     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
104 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
105     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
106 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
107 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
108     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
109     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
110 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
111 root 1.87
112 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
113 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
114     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
115     "known to be good" list.
116 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
117     (analysed by Roger Pack).
118 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
119     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
120     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
121     with their C compiler.
122 root 1.83
123 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
124 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
125     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
126     ADD fails with EEXIST.
127 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
128 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
129 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
130     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
131 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
132     init functions.
133 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
134     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
135 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
136     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
137 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
138     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
139 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
140     do similar changes for event.c.
141 root 1.71
142 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
143 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
144     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
145     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
146 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
147 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
148 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
149     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
150 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
151 root 1.65
152 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
153     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
154     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
155 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
156 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
157 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
158 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
159 root 1.57
160 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
161 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
162 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
163 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
164     Matt Tolton).
165    
166 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
167 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
168     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
169 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
170     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
171 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
172 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
173     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
174     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
175     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
176     reported by Matt Tolton.
177 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
178 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
179 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
180     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
181     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
182 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
183     and some other default values.
184 root 1.45
185 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
186 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
187 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
188 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
189 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
190     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
191     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
192     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
193     2-based heaps.
194 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
195     memory accesses.
196     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
197 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
198 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
199     - improve ev_stat docs.
200     - add portability requirements section.
201 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
202 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
203 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
204     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
205 root 1.31
206 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
207     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
208 root 1.29
209 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
210 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
211     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
212 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
213     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
214     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
215 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
216     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
217     C99 or gcc are available.
218     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
219 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
220     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
221     (no such systems are known at this time).
222 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
223     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
224     go away (noted by various people).
225 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
226     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
227     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
228 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
229 root 1.20
230 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
231 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
232     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
233 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
234 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
235     flags of any outer loops anymore.
236 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
237 root 1.15
238 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
239 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
240 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
241     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
242 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
243 root 1.10
244 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
245 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
246 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
247     - slightly improved documentation.
248 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
249 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
250     watchers.
251 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
252 root 1.4
253 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
254 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
255 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
256     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
257     - change how include files are found.
258     - doc updates.
259     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
260    
261     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
262     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
263     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
264     - fix embed watchers.
265     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
266     - added exported Symbol tables.
267     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
268     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
269    
270     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
271     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
272    
273     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
274     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
275     (not relevant for perl).
276    
277     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
278    
279 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
280     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
281