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Revision: 1.155
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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 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
4     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
5     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
6     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
7     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
8 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
9 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
10 root 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
11     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
12 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
13 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
14 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
15 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
16     (patch by Didier Spezia).
17 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
18     on fd creation, to avoid races.
19 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
20     (analysed by lekma).
21 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
22     signalfd.
23 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
24 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
25     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
26     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
27 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
28 root 1.142
29 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
30 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
31     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
32 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
33 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
34     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
35 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
36     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
37     state when using libev's signal handling.
38 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
39     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
40 root 1.132
41 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
42 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
43     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
44     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
45     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
46 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
47 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
48     about thread locking.
49 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
50     - add ev_loop_depth.
51 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
52     for new events.
53 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
54     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
55     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
56     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
57 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
58 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
59 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
60     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
61 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
62 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
63 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
64 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
65 root 1.115
66 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
67 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
68     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
69 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
70     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
71     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
72     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
73 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
74     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
75     Malek Hadj-Ali).
76 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
77 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
78 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
79     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
80 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
81 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
82 root 1.102
83 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
84     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
85     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
86 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
87     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
88     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
89     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
90     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
91    
92 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
93 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
94     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
95     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
96     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
97     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
98     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
99     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
100 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
101     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
102     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
103 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
104     should return fantasy port numbers.
105 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
106 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
107 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
108     a useless string instead of the expected version string
109     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
110 root 1.95
111 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
112 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
113 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
114 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
115     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
116 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
117     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
118     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
119 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
120     automatically.
121 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
122     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
123     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
124 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
125     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
126 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
127 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
128     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
129     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
130 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
131 root 1.87
132 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
133 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
134     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
135     "known to be good" list.
136 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
137     (analysed by Roger Pack).
138 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
139     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
140     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
141     with their C compiler.
142 root 1.83
143 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
144 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
145     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
146     ADD fails with EEXIST.
147 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
148 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
149 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
150     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
151 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
152     init functions.
153 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
154     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
155 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
156     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
157 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
158     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
159 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
160     do similar changes for event.c.
161 root 1.71
162 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
163 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
164     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
165     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
166 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
167 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
168 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
169     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
170 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
171 root 1.65
172 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
173     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
174     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
175 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
176 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
177 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
178 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
179 root 1.57
180 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
181 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
182 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
183 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
184     Matt Tolton).
185    
186 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
187 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
188     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
189 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
190     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
191 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
192 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
193     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
194     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
195     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
196     reported by Matt Tolton.
197 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
198 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
199 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
200     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
201     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
202 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
203     and some other default values.
204 root 1.45
205 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
206 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
207 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
208 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
209 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
210     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
211     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
212     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
213     2-based heaps.
214 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
215     memory accesses.
216     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
217 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
218 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
219     - improve ev_stat docs.
220     - add portability requirements section.
221 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
222 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
223 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
224     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
225 root 1.31
226 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
227     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
228 root 1.29
229 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
230 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
231     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
232 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
233     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
234     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
235 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
236     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
237     C99 or gcc are available.
238     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
239 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
240     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
241     (no such systems are known at this time).
242 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
243     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
244     go away (noted by various people).
245 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
246     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
247     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
248 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
249 root 1.20
250 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
251 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
252     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
253 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
254 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
255     flags of any outer loops anymore.
256 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
257 root 1.15
258 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
259 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
260 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
261     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
262 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
263 root 1.10
264 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
265 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
266 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
267     - slightly improved documentation.
268 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
269 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
270     watchers.
271 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
272 root 1.4
273 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
274 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
275 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
276     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
277     - change how include files are found.
278     - doc updates.
279     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
280    
281     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
282     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
283     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
284     - fix embed watchers.
285     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
286     - added exported Symbol tables.
287     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
288     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
289    
290     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
291     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
292    
293     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
294     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
295     (not relevant for perl).
296    
297     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
298    
299 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
300     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
301