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Revision: 1.153
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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 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
7     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
8 root 1.150 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 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
21 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
22     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
23     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
24 root 1.142
25 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
26 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
27     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
28 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
29 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
30     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
31 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
32     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
33     state when using libev's signal handling.
34 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
35     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
36 root 1.132
37 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
38 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
39     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
40     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
41     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
42 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
43 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
44     about thread locking.
45 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
46     - add ev_loop_depth.
47 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
48     for new events.
49 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
50     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
51     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
52     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
53 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
54 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
55 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
56     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
57 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
58 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
59 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
60 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
61 root 1.115
62 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
63 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
64     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
65 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
66     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
67     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
68     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
69 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
70     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
71     Malek Hadj-Ali).
72 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
73 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
74 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
75     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
76 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
77 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
78 root 1.102
79 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
80     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
81     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
82 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
83     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
84     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
85     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
86     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
87    
88 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
89 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
90     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
91     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
92     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
93     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
94     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
95     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
96 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
97     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
98     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
99 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
100     should return fantasy port numbers.
101 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
102 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
103 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
104     a useless string instead of the expected version string
105     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
106 root 1.95
107 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
108 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
109 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
110 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
111     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
112 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
113     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
114     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
115 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
116     automatically.
117 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
118     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
119     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
120 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
121     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
122 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
123 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
124     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
125     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
126 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
127 root 1.87
128 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
129 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
130     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
131     "known to be good" list.
132 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
133     (analysed by Roger Pack).
134 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
135     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
136     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
137     with their C compiler.
138 root 1.83
139 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
140 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
141     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
142     ADD fails with EEXIST.
143 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
144 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
145 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
146     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
147 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
148     init functions.
149 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
150     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
151 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
152     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
153 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
154     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
155 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
156     do similar changes for event.c.
157 root 1.71
158 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
159 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
160     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
161     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
162 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
163 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
164 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
165     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
166 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
167 root 1.65
168 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
169     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
170     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
171 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
172 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
173 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
174 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
175 root 1.57
176 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
177 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
178 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
179 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
180     Matt Tolton).
181    
182 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
183 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
184     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
185 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
186     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
187 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
188 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
189     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
190     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
191     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
192     reported by Matt Tolton.
193 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
194 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
195 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
196     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
197     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
198 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
199     and some other default values.
200 root 1.45
201 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
202 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
203 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
204 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
205 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
206     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
207     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
208     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
209     2-based heaps.
210 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
211     memory accesses.
212     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
213 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
214 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
215     - improve ev_stat docs.
216     - add portability requirements section.
217 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
218 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
219 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
220     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
221 root 1.31
222 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
223     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
224 root 1.29
225 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
226 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
227     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
228 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
229     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
230     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
231 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
232     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
233     C99 or gcc are available.
234     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
235 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
236     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
237     (no such systems are known at this time).
238 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
239     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
240     go away (noted by various people).
241 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
242     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
243     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
244 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
245 root 1.20
246 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
247 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
248     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
249 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
250 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
251     flags of any outer loops anymore.
252 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
253 root 1.15
254 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
255 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
256 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
257     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
258 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
259 root 1.10
260 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
261 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
262 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
263     - slightly improved documentation.
264 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
265 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
266     watchers.
267 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
268 root 1.4
269 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
270 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
271 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
272     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
273     - change how include files are found.
274     - doc updates.
275     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
276    
277     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
278     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
279     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
280     - fix embed watchers.
281     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
282     - added exported Symbol tables.
283     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
284     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
285    
286     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
287     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
288    
289     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
290     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
291     (not relevant for perl).
292    
293     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
294    
295 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
296     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
297