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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 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
6     override it.
7 root 1.157
8 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
9 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
10     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
11     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
12     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
13     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
14 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
15 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
16 root 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
17     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
18 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
19 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
20 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
21 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
22     (patch by Didier Spezia).
23 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
24     on fd creation, to avoid races.
25 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
26     (analysed by lekma).
27 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
28     signalfd.
29 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
30 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
31     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
32     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
33 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
34 root 1.142
35 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
36 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
37     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
38 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
39 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
40     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
41 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
42     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
43     state when using libev's signal handling.
44 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
45     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
46 root 1.132
47 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
48 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
49     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
50     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
51     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
52 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
53 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
54     about thread locking.
55 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
56     - add ev_loop_depth.
57 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
58     for new events.
59 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
60     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
61     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
62     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
63 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
64 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
65 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
66     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
67 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
68 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
69 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
70 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
71 root 1.115
72 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
73 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
74     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
75 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
76     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
77     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
78     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
79 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
80     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
81     Malek Hadj-Ali).
82 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
83 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
84 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
85     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
86 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
87 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
88 root 1.102
89 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
90     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
91     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
92 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
93     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
94     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
95     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
96     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
97    
98 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
99 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
100     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
101     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
102     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
103     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
104     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
105     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
106 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
107     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
108     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
109 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
110     should return fantasy port numbers.
111 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
112 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
113 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
114     a useless string instead of the expected version string
115     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
116 root 1.95
117 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
118 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
119 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
120 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
121     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
122 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
123     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
124     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
125 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
126     automatically.
127 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
128     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
129     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
130 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
131     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
132 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
133 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
134     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
135     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
136 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
137 root 1.87
138 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
139 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
140     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
141     "known to be good" list.
142 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
143     (analysed by Roger Pack).
144 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
145     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
146     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
147     with their C compiler.
148 root 1.83
149 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
150 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
151     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
152     ADD fails with EEXIST.
153 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
154 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
155 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
156     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
157 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
158     init functions.
159 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
160     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
161 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
162     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
163 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
164     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
165 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
166     do similar changes for event.c.
167 root 1.71
168 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
169 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
170     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
171     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
172 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
173 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
174 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
175     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
176 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
177 root 1.65
178 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
179     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
180     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
181 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
182 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
183 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
184 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
185 root 1.57
186 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
187 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
188 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
189 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
190     Matt Tolton).
191    
192 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
193 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
194     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
195 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
196     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
197 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
198 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
199     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
200     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
201     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
202     reported by Matt Tolton.
203 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
204 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
205 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
206     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
207     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
208 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
209     and some other default values.
210 root 1.45
211 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
212 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
213 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
214 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
215 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
216     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
217     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
218     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
219     2-based heaps.
220 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
221     memory accesses.
222     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
223 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
224 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
225     - improve ev_stat docs.
226     - add portability requirements section.
227 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
228 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
229 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
230     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
231 root 1.31
232 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
233     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
234 root 1.29
235 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
236 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
237     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
238 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
239     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
240     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
241 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
242     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
243     C99 or gcc are available.
244     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
245 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
246     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
247     (no such systems are known at this time).
248 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
249     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
250     go away (noted by various people).
251 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
252     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
253     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
254 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
255 root 1.20
256 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
257 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
258     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
259 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
260 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
261     flags of any outer loops anymore.
262 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
263 root 1.15
264 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
265 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
266 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
267     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
268 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
269 root 1.10
270 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
271 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
272 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
273     - slightly improved documentation.
274 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
275 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
276     watchers.
277 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
278 root 1.4
279 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
280 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
281 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
282     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
283     - change how include files are found.
284     - doc updates.
285     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
286    
287     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
288     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
289     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
290     - fix embed watchers.
291     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
292     - added exported Symbol tables.
293     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
294     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
295    
296     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
297     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
298    
299     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
300     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
301     (not relevant for perl).
302    
303     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
304    
305 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
306     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
307