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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 1.157 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan.
4    
5 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
6 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
7     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
8     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
9     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
10     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
11 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
12 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
13 root 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
14     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
15 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
16 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
17 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
18 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
19     (patch by Didier Spezia).
20 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
21     on fd creation, to avoid races.
22 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
23     (analysed by lekma).
24 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
25     signalfd.
26 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
27 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
28     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
29     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
30 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
31 root 1.142
32 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
33 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
34     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
35 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
36 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
37     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
38 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
39     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
40     state when using libev's signal handling.
41 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
42     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
43 root 1.132
44 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
45 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
46     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
47     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
48     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
49 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
50 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
51     about thread locking.
52 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
53     - add ev_loop_depth.
54 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
55     for new events.
56 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
57     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
58     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
59     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
60 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
61 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
62 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
63     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
64 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
65 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
66 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
67 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
68 root 1.115
69 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
70 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
71     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
72 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
73     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
74     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
75     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
76 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
77     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
78     Malek Hadj-Ali).
79 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
80 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
81 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
82     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
83 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
84 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
85 root 1.102
86 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
87     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
88     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
89 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
90     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
91     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
92     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
93     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
94    
95 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
96 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
97     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
98     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
99     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
100     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
101     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
102     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
103 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
104     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
105     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
106 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
107     should return fantasy port numbers.
108 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
109 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
110 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
111     a useless string instead of the expected version string
112     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
113 root 1.95
114 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
115 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
116 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
117 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
118     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
119 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
120     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
121     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
122 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
123     automatically.
124 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
125     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
126     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
127 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
128     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
129 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
130 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
131     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
132     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
133 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
134 root 1.87
135 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
136 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
137     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
138     "known to be good" list.
139 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
140     (analysed by Roger Pack).
141 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
142     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
143     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
144     with their C compiler.
145 root 1.83
146 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
147 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
148     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
149     ADD fails with EEXIST.
150 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
151 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
152 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
153     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
154 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
155     init functions.
156 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
157     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
158 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
159     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
160 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
161     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
162 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
163     do similar changes for event.c.
164 root 1.71
165 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
166 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
167     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
168     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
169 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
170 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
171 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
172     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
173 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
174 root 1.65
175 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
176     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
177     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
178 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
179 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
180 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
181 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
182 root 1.57
183 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
184 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
185 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
186 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
187     Matt Tolton).
188    
189 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
190 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
191     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
192 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
193     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
194 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
195 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
196     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
197     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
198     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
199     reported by Matt Tolton.
200 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
201 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
202 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
203     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
204     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
205 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
206     and some other default values.
207 root 1.45
208 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
209 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
210 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
211 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
212 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
213     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
214     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
215     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
216     2-based heaps.
217 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
218     memory accesses.
219     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
220 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
221 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
222     - improve ev_stat docs.
223     - add portability requirements section.
224 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
225 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
226 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
227     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
228 root 1.31
229 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
230     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
231 root 1.29
232 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
233 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
234     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
235 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
236     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
237     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
238 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
239     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
240     C99 or gcc are available.
241     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
242 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
243     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
244     (no such systems are known at this time).
245 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
246     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
247     go away (noted by various people).
248 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
249     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
250     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
251 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
252 root 1.20
253 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
254 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
255     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
256 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
257 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
258     flags of any outer loops anymore.
259 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
260 root 1.15
261 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
262 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
263 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
264     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
265 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
266 root 1.10
267 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
268 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
269 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
270     - slightly improved documentation.
271 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
272 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
273     watchers.
274 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
275 root 1.4
276 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
277 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
278 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
279     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
280     - change how include files are found.
281     - doc updates.
282     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
283    
284     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
285     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
286     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
287     - fix embed watchers.
288     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
289     - added exported Symbol tables.
290     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
291     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
292    
293     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
294     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
295    
296     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
297     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
298     (not relevant for perl).
299    
300     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
301    
302 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
303     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
304