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Revision: 1.150
Committed: Sat Nov 14 00:15:21 2009 UTC (14 years, 6 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.149: +5 -0 lines
Log Message:
inotify should not keep a reference

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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 1.150 - inotify usage would keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
7     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcase
8     provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
9 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
10 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
11 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
12     (patch by Didier Spezia).
13 root 1.145 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation.
14 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
15     on fd creation, to avoid races.
16 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
17     (analysed by lekma).
18 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
19     signalfd.
20 root 1.142
21 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
22 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
23     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
24 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
25 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
26     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
27 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
28     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
29     state when using libev's signal handling.
30 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
31     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
32 root 1.132
33 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
34 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
35     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
36     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
37     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
38 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
39 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
40     about thread locking.
41 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
42     - add ev_loop_depth.
43 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
44     for new events.
45 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
46     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
47     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
48     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
49 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
50 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
51 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
52     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
53 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
54 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
55 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
56 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
57 root 1.115
58 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
59 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
60     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
61 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
62     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
63     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
64     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
65 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
66     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
67     Malek Hadj-Ali).
68 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
69 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
70 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
71     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
72 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
73 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
74 root 1.102
75 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
76     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
77     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
78 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
79     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
80     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
81     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
82     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
83    
84 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
85 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
86     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
87     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
88     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
89     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
90     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
91     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
92 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
93     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
94     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
95 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
96     should return fantasy port numbers.
97 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
98 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
99 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
100     a useless string instead of the expected version string
101     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
102 root 1.95
103 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
104 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
105 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
106 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
107     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
108 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
109     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
110     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
111 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
112     automatically.
113 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
114     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
115     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
116 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
117     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
118 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
119 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
120     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
121     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
122 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
123 root 1.87
124 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
125 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
126     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
127     "known to be good" list.
128 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
129     (analysed by Roger Pack).
130 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
131     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
132     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
133     with their C compiler.
134 root 1.83
135 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
136 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
137     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
138     ADD fails with EEXIST.
139 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
140 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
141 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
142     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
143 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
144     init functions.
145 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
146     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
147 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
148     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
149 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
150     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
151 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
152     do similar changes for event.c.
153 root 1.71
154 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
155 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
156     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
157     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
158 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
159 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
160 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
161     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
162 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
163 root 1.65
164 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
165     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
166     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
167 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
168 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
169 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
170 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
171 root 1.57
172 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
173 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
174 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
175 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
176     Matt Tolton).
177    
178 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
179 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
180     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
181 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
182     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
183 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
184 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
185     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
186     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
187     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
188     reported by Matt Tolton.
189 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
190 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
191 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
192     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
193     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
194 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
195     and some other default values.
196 root 1.45
197 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
198 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
199 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
200 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
201 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
202     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
203     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
204     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
205     2-based heaps.
206 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
207     memory accesses.
208     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
209 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
210 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
211     - improve ev_stat docs.
212     - add portability requirements section.
213 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
214 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
215 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
216     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
217 root 1.31
218 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
219     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
220 root 1.29
221 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
222 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
223     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
224 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
225     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
226     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
227 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
228     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
229     C99 or gcc are available.
230     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
231 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
232     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
233     (no such systems are known at this time).
234 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
235     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
236     go away (noted by various people).
237 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
238     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
239     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
240 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
241 root 1.20
242 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
243 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
244     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
245 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
246 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
247     flags of any outer loops anymore.
248 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
249 root 1.15
250 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
251 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
252 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
253     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
254 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
255 root 1.10
256 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
257 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
258 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
259     - slightly improved documentation.
260 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
261 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
262     watchers.
263 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
264 root 1.4
265 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
266 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
267 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
268     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
269     - change how include files are found.
270     - doc updates.
271     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
272    
273     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
274     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
275     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
276     - fix embed watchers.
277     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
278     - added exported Symbol tables.
279     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
280     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
281    
282     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
283     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
284    
285     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
286     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
287     (not relevant for perl).
288    
289     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
290    
291 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
292     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
293