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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 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
5 root 1.157
6 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
7 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
8     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
9     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
10     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
11     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
12 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
13 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
14 root 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
15     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
16 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
17 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
18 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
19 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
20     (patch by Didier Spezia).
21 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
22     on fd creation, to avoid races.
23 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
24     (analysed by lekma).
25 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
26     signalfd.
27 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
28 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
29     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
30     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
31 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
32 root 1.142
33 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
34 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
35     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
36 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
37 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
38     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
39 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
40     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
41     state when using libev's signal handling.
42 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
43     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
44 root 1.132
45 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
46 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
47     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
48     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
49     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
50 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
51 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
52     about thread locking.
53 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
54     - add ev_loop_depth.
55 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
56     for new events.
57 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
58     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
59     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
60     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
61 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
62 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
63 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
64     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
65 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
66 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
67 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
68 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
69 root 1.115
70 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
71 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
72     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
73 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
74     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
75     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
76     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
77 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
78     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
79     Malek Hadj-Ali).
80 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
81 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
82 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
83     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
84 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
85 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
86 root 1.102
87 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
88     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
89     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
90 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
91     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
92     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
93     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
94     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
95    
96 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
97 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
98     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
99     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
100     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
101     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
102     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
103     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
104 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
105     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
106     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
107 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
108     should return fantasy port numbers.
109 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
110 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
111 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
112     a useless string instead of the expected version string
113     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
114 root 1.95
115 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
116 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
117 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
118 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
119     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
120 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
121     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
122     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
123 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
124     automatically.
125 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
126     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
127     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
128 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
129     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
130 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
131 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
132     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
133     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
134 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
135 root 1.87
136 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
137 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
138     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
139     "known to be good" list.
140 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
141     (analysed by Roger Pack).
142 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
143     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
144     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
145     with their C compiler.
146 root 1.83
147 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
148 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
149     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
150     ADD fails with EEXIST.
151 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
152 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
153 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
154     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
155 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
156     init functions.
157 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
158     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
159 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
160     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
161 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
162     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
163 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
164     do similar changes for event.c.
165 root 1.71
166 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
167 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
168     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
169     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
170 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
171 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
172 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
173     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
174 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
175 root 1.65
176 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
177     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
178     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
179 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
180 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
181 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
182 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
183 root 1.57
184 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
185 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
186 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
187 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
188     Matt Tolton).
189    
190 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
191 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
192     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
193 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
194     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
195 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
196 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
197     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
198     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
199     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
200     reported by Matt Tolton.
201 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
202 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
203 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
204     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
205     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
206 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
207     and some other default values.
208 root 1.45
209 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
210 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
211 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
212 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
213 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
214     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
215     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
216     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
217     2-based heaps.
218 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
219     memory accesses.
220     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
221 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
222 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
223     - improve ev_stat docs.
224     - add portability requirements section.
225 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
226 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
227 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
228     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
229 root 1.31
230 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
231     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
232 root 1.29
233 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
234 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
235     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
236 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
237     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
238     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
239 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
240     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
241     C99 or gcc are available.
242     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
243 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
244     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
245     (no such systems are known at this time).
246 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
247     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
248     go away (noted by various people).
249 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
250     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
251     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
252 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
253 root 1.20
254 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
255 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
256     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
257 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
258 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
259     flags of any outer loops anymore.
260 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
261 root 1.15
262 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
263 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
264 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
265     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
266 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
267 root 1.10
268 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
269 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
270 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
271     - slightly improved documentation.
272 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
273 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
274     watchers.
275 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
276 root 1.4
277 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
278 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
279 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
280     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
281     - change how include files are found.
282     - doc updates.
283     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
284    
285     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
286     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
287     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
288     - fix embed watchers.
289     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
290     - added exported Symbol tables.
291     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
292     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
293    
294     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
295     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
296    
297     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
298     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
299     (not relevant for perl).
300    
301     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
302    
303 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
304     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
305