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Revision: 1.156
Committed: Thu Dec 31 07:04:33 2009 UTC (14 years, 4 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_9
Changes since 1.155: +1 -0 lines
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3.9

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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 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
4 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
5     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
6     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
7     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
8     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
9 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
10 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
11 root 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
12     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
13 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
14 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
15 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
16 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
17     (patch by Didier Spezia).
18 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
19     on fd creation, to avoid races.
20 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
21     (analysed by lekma).
22 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
23     signalfd.
24 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
25 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
26     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
27     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
28 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
29 root 1.142
30 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
31 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
32     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
33 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
34 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
35     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
36 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
37     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
38     state when using libev's signal handling.
39 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
40     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
41 root 1.132
42 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
43 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
44     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
45     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
46     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
47 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
48 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
49     about thread locking.
50 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
51     - add ev_loop_depth.
52 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
53     for new events.
54 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
55     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
56     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
57     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
58 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
59 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
60 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
61     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
62 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
63 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
64 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
65 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
66 root 1.115
67 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
68 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
69     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
70 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
71     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
72     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
73     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
74 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
75     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
76     Malek Hadj-Ali).
77 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
78 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
79 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
80     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
81 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
82 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
83 root 1.102
84 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
85     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
86     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
87 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
88     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
89     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
90     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
91     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
92    
93 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
94 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
95     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
96     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
97     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
98     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
99     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
100     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
101 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
102     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
103     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
104 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
105     should return fantasy port numbers.
106 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
107 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
108 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
109     a useless string instead of the expected version string
110     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
111 root 1.95
112 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
113 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
114 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
115 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
116     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
117 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
118     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
119     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
120 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
121     automatically.
122 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
123     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
124     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
125 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
126     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
127 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
128 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
129     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
130     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
131 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
132 root 1.87
133 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
134 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
135     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
136     "known to be good" list.
137 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
138     (analysed by Roger Pack).
139 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
140     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
141     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
142     with their C compiler.
143 root 1.83
144 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
145 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
146     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
147     ADD fails with EEXIST.
148 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
149 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
150 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
151     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
152 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
153     init functions.
154 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
155     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
156 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
157     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
158 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
159     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
160 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
161     do similar changes for event.c.
162 root 1.71
163 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
164 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
165     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
166     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
167 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
168 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
169 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
170     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
171 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
172 root 1.65
173 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
174     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
175     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
176 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
177 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
178 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
179 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
180 root 1.57
181 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
182 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
183 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
184 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
185     Matt Tolton).
186    
187 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
188 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
189     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
190 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
191     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
192 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
193 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
194     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
195     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
196     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
197     reported by Matt Tolton.
198 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
199 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
200 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
201     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
202     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
203 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
204     and some other default values.
205 root 1.45
206 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
207 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
208 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
209 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
210 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
211     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
212     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
213     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
214     2-based heaps.
215 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
216     memory accesses.
217     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
218 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
219 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
220     - improve ev_stat docs.
221     - add portability requirements section.
222 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
223 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
224 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
225     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
226 root 1.31
227 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
228     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
229 root 1.29
230 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
231 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
232     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
233 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
234     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
235     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
236 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
237     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
238     C99 or gcc are available.
239     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
240 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
241     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
242     (no such systems are known at this time).
243 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
244     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
245     go away (noted by various people).
246 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
247     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
248     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
249 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
250 root 1.20
251 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
252 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
253     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
254 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
255 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
256     flags of any outer loops anymore.
257 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
258 root 1.15
259 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
260 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
261 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
262     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
263 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
264 root 1.10
265 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
266 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
267 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
268     - slightly improved documentation.
269 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
270 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
271     watchers.
272 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
273 root 1.4
274 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
275 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
276 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
277     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
278     - change how include files are found.
279     - doc updates.
280     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
281    
282     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
283     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
284     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
285     - fix embed watchers.
286     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
287     - added exported Symbol tables.
288     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
289     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
290    
291     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
292     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
293    
294     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
295     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
296     (not relevant for perl).
297    
298     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
299    
300 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
301     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
302