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Revision: 1.162
Committed: Tue Feb 16 09:32:38 2010 UTC (14 years, 2 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.161: +2 -0 lines
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maemo hits, but it's a dead platform anyways

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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 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
4     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
5 root 1.157 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan.
6 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
7 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
8     override it.
9 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
10     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
11     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
12 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
13     in an obscure case.
14 root 1.157
15 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
16 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
17     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
18     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
19     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
20     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
21 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
22 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
23 root 1.151 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
24     preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
25 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
26 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
27 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
28 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
29     (patch by Didier Spezia).
30 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
31     on fd creation, to avoid races.
32 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
33     (analysed by lekma).
34 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
35     signalfd.
36 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
37 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
38     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
39     have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
40 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
41 root 1.142
42 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
43 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
44     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
45 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
46 root 1.134 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
47     ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
48 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
49     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
50     state when using libev's signal handling.
51 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
52     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
53 root 1.132
54 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
55 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
56     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
57     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
58     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
59 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
60 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
61     about thread locking.
62 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
63     - add ev_loop_depth.
64 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
65     for new events.
66 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
67     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
68     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
69     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
70 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
71 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
72 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
73     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
74 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
75 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
76 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
77 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
78 root 1.115
79 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
80 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
81     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
82 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
83     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
84     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
85     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
86 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
87     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
88     Malek Hadj-Ali).
89 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
90 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
91 root 1.109 - add documentation section about priorites.
92     - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
93 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
94 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
95 root 1.102
96 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
97     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
98     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
99 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
100     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
101     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
102     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
103     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
104    
105 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
106 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
107     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
108     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
109     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
110     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
111     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
112     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
113 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
114     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
115     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
116 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
117     should return fantasy port numbers.
118 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
119 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
120 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
121     a useless string instead of the expected version string
122     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
123 root 1.95
124 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
125 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
126 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
127 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
128     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
129 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
130     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
131     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
132 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
133     automatically.
134 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
135     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
136     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
137 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
138     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
139 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
140 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
141     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
142     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
143 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
144 root 1.87
145 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
146 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
147     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
148     "known to be good" list.
149 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
150     (analysed by Roger Pack).
151 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
152     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
153     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
154     with their C compiler.
155 root 1.83
156 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
157 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
158     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
159     ADD fails with EEXIST.
160 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
161 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
162 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
163     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
164 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
165     init functions.
166 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
167     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
168 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
169     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
170 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
171     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
172 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
173     do similar changes for event.c.
174 root 1.71
175 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
176 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
177     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
178     - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
179 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
180 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
181 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
182     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
183 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
184 root 1.65
185 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
186     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
187     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
188 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
189 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
190 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
191 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
192 root 1.57
193 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
194 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
195 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
196 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
197     Matt Tolton).
198    
199 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
200 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
201     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
202 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
203     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
204 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
205 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
206     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
207     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
208     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
209     reported by Matt Tolton.
210 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
211 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
212 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
213     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
214     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
215 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
216     and some other default values.
217 root 1.45
218 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
219 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
220 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
221 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
222 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
223     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
224     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
225     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
226     2-based heaps.
227 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
228     memory accesses.
229     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
230 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
231 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
232     - improve ev_stat docs.
233     - add portability requirements section.
234 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
235 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
236 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
237     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
238 root 1.31
239 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
240     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
241 root 1.29
242 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
243 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
244     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
245 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
246     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
247     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
248 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
249     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
250     C99 or gcc are available.
251     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
252 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
253     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
254     (no such systems are known at this time).
255 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
256     also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
257     go away (noted by various people).
258 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
259     (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
260     - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
261 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
262 root 1.20
263 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
264 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
265     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
266 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
267 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
268     flags of any outer loops anymore.
269 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
270 root 1.15
271 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
272 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
273 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
274     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
275 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
276 root 1.10
277 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
278 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
279 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
280     - slightly improved documentation.
281 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
282 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
283     watchers.
284 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
285 root 1.4
286 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
287 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
288 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
289     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
290     - change how include files are found.
291     - doc updates.
292     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
293    
294     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
295     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
296     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
297     - fix embed watchers.
298     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
299     - added exported Symbol tables.
300     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
301     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
302    
303     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
304     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
305    
306     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
307     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
308     (not relevant for perl).
309    
310     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
311    
312 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
313     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
314