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Revision: 1.149
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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 1.149 TODO: somehow unblock procmask?
4 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
5 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
6 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
7 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
8 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
9     (patch by Didier Spezia).
10 root 1.145 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation.
11 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
12     on fd creation, to avoid races.
13 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
14     signalfd.
15 root 1.142
16 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
17 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
18     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
19 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
20 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
21     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
22 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
23     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
24     state when using libev's signal handling.
25 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
26     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
27 root 1.132
28 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
29 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
30     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
31     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
32     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
33 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
34 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
35     about thread locking.
36 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
37     - add ev_loop_depth.
38 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
39     for new events.
40 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
41     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
42     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
43     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
44 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
45 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
46 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
47     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
48 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
49 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
50 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
51 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
52 root 1.115
53 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
54 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
55     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
56 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
57     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
58     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
59     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
60 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
61     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
62     Malek Hadj-Ali).
63 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
64 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
65 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
66     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
67 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
68 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
69 root 1.102
70 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
71     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
72     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
73 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
74     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
75     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
76     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
77     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
78    
79 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
80 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
81     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
82     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
83     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
84     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
85     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
86     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
87 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
88     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
89     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
90 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
91     should return fantasy port numbers.
92 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
93 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
94 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
95     a useless string instead of the expected version string
96     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
97 root 1.95
98 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
99 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
100 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
101 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
102     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
103 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
104     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
105     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
106 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
107     automatically.
108 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
109     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
110     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
111 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
112     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
113 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
114 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
115     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
116     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
117 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
118 root 1.87
119 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
120 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
121     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
122     "known to be good" list.
123 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
124     (analysed by Roger Pack).
125 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
126     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
127     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
128     with their C compiler.
129 root 1.83
130 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
131 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
132     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
133     ADD fails with EEXIST.
134 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
135 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
136 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
137     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
138 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
139     init functions.
140 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
141     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
142 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
143     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
144 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
145     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
146 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
147     do similar changes for event.c.
148 root 1.71
149 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
150 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
151     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
152     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
153 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
154 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
155 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
156     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
157 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
158 root 1.65
159 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
160     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
161     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
162 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
163 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
164 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
165 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
166 root 1.57
167 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
168 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
169 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
170 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
171     Matt Tolton).
172    
173 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
174 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
175     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
176 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
177     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
178 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
179 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
180     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
181     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
182     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
183     reported by Matt Tolton.
184 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
185 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
186 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
187     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
188     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
189 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
190     and some other default values.
191 root 1.45
192 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
193 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
194 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
195 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
196 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
197     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
198     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
199     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
200     2-based heaps.
201 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
202     memory accesses.
203     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
204 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
205 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
206     - improve ev_stat docs.
207     - add portability requirements section.
208 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
209 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
210 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
211     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
212 root 1.31
213 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
214     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
215 root 1.29
216 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
217 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
218     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
219 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
220     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
221     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
222 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
223     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
224     C99 or gcc are available.
225     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
226 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
227     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
228     (no such systems are known at this time).
229 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
230     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
231     go away (noted by various people).
232 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
233     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
234     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
235 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
236 root 1.20
237 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
238 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
239     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
240 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
241 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
242     flags of any outer loops anymore.
243 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
244 root 1.15
245 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
246 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
247 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
248     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
249 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
250 root 1.10
251 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
252 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
253 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
254     - slightly improved documentation.
255 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
256 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
257     watchers.
258 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
259 root 1.4
260 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
261 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
262 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
263     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
264     - change how include files are found.
265     - doc updates.
266     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
267    
268     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
269     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
270     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
271     - fix embed watchers.
272     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
273     - added exported Symbol tables.
274     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
275     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
276    
277     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
278     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
279    
280     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
281     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
282     (not relevant for perl).
283    
284     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
285    
286 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
287     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
288