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Revision: 1.332
Committed: Thu Jun 27 07:40:55 2019 UTC (4 years, 10 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: EV-rel-4_27
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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 1.331 TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of mdoenr powersaving
4 root 1.332 4.27 (EV only)
5 root 1.329 - linux aio backend almost complete rewritten to work around its
6     limitations.
7     - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
8 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
9     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
10     user error.
11     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
12     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
13 root 1.329
14     4.26 (EV only)
15     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
16 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
17 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
18 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
19 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
20     - minor code cleanups.
21 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
22 root 1.324
23 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
24     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
25 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
26 root 1.320 - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
27 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
28 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
29 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
30     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
31 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
32 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
33     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
34 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
35 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
36     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
37 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
38 root 1.314
39 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
40     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
41     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
42     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
43    
44 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
45 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
46     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
47     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
48    
49 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
50 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
51     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
52     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
53     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
54     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
55     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
56     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
57 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
58 root 1.308
59 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
60 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
61 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
62 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
63 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
64 root 1.301
65 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
66 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
67 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
68     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
69     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
70 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
71     functionality.
72    
73 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
74 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
75     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
76 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
77 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
78 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
79     when we can't detect the signal set size.
80 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
81     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
82     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
83 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
84     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
85 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
86     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
87 root 1.288
88 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
89 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
90     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
91 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
92     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
93 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
94     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
95     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
96     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
97 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
98     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
99 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
100 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
101     be overfenced than underprotected.
102 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
103     still active).
104 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
105     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
106 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
107     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
108 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
109 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
110     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
111 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
112     in many cases.
113 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
114 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
115     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
116 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
117 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
118     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
119 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
120     Denis Bilenko).
121 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
122 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
123     the watcher base set (loop) method.
124 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
125 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
126 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
127 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
128     inotify-supporting filesystems.
129 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
130     versions ignore it before
131     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
132 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
133 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
134 root 1.253
135 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
136 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
137     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
138 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
139 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
140     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
141 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
142     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
143     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
144 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
145 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
146     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
147 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
148 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
149 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
150 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
151     as no external libraries are required.
152 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
153 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
154 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
155 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
156 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
157     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
158     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
159 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
160     static.
161 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
162     were empty.
163 root 1.225
164 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
165     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
166     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
167     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
168 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
169 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
170 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
171     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
172 root 1.221
173 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
174 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
175 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
176     backend, by generating events on our own.
177 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
178     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
179     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
180     than that).
181 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
182     #ifdef to test for them.
183 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
184     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
185     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
186 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
187 root 1.209
188 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
189 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
190 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
191     event.h on make install. grrr.
192     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
193 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
194 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
195 root 1.203
196 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
197 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
198 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
199     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
200 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
201 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
202 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
203     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
204 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
205 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
206 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
207     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
208 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
209     did not work properly.
210 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
211 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
212 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
213     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
214     even when there is nothing to set.
215 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
216 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
217     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
218 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
219     on freebsd...).
220 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
221 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
222     override it.
223 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
224     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
225 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
226     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
227     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
228 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
229     in an obscure case.
230 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
231     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
232     no sscanf dependency).
233 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
234 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
235 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
236 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
237 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
238 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
239 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
240 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
241 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
242 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
243     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
244 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
245     default arguments when compiled as C++.
246 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
247 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
248 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
249 root 1.157
250 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
251 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
252     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
253     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
254     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
255     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
256 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
257 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
258 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
259 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
260 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
261 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
262 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
263 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
264     (patch by Didier Spezia).
265 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
266     on fd creation, to avoid races.
267 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
268     (analysed by lekma).
269 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
270     signalfd.
271 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
272 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
273     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
274 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
275 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
276 root 1.142
277 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
278 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
279     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
280 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
281 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
282 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
283 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
284     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
285     state when using libev's signal handling.
286 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
287     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
288 root 1.132
289 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
290 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
291     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
292     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
293     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
294 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
295 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
296     about thread locking.
297 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
298     - add ev_loop_depth.
299 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
300     for new events.
301 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
302     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
303     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
304     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
305 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
306 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
307 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
308     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
309 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
310 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
311 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
312 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
313 root 1.115
314 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
315 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
316     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
317 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
318     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
319     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
320     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
321 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
322     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
323     Malek Hadj-Ali).
324 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
325 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
326 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
327 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
328 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
329 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
330 root 1.102
331 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
332     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
333     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
334 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
335     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
336     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
337     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
338     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
339    
340 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
341 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
342     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
343     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
344     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
345     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
346     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
347     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
348 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
349     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
350     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
351 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
352     should return fantasy port numbers.
353 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
354 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
355 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
356     a useless string instead of the expected version string
357     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
358 root 1.95
359 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
360 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
361 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
362 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
363     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
364 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
365     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
366     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
367 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
368     automatically.
369 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
370     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
371     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
372 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
373     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
374 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
375 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
376     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
377     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
378 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
379 root 1.87
380 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
381 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
382     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
383     "known to be good" list.
384 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
385     (analysed by Roger Pack).
386 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
387     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
388     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
389     with their C compiler.
390 root 1.83
391 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
392 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
393     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
394     ADD fails with EEXIST.
395 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
396 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
397 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
398     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
399 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
400     init functions.
401 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
402     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
403 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
404     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
405 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
406     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
407 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
408     do similar changes for event.c.
409 root 1.71
410 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
411 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
412     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
413 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
414 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
415 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
416 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
417     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
418 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
419 root 1.65
420 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
421     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
422     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
423 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
424 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
425 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
426 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
427 root 1.57
428 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
429 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
430 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
431 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
432     Matt Tolton).
433    
434 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
435 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
436     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
437 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
438     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
439 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
440 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
441     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
442     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
443     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
444     reported by Matt Tolton.
445 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
446 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
447 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
448     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
449     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
450 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
451     and some other default values.
452 root 1.45
453 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
454 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
455 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
456 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
457 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
458     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
459     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
460     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
461     2-based heaps.
462 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
463     memory accesses.
464     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
465 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
466 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
467     - improve ev_stat docs.
468     - add portability requirements section.
469 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
470 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
471 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
472     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
473 root 1.31
474 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
475     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
476 root 1.29
477 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
478 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
479     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
480 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
481     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
482     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
483 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
484     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
485     C99 or gcc are available.
486     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
487 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
488     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
489     (no such systems are known at this time).
490 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
491 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
492 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
493 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
494 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
495 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
496 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
497 root 1.20
498 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
499 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
500     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
501 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
502 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
503     flags of any outer loops anymore.
504 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
505 root 1.15
506 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
507 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
508 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
509     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
510 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
511 root 1.10
512 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
513 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
514 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
515     - slightly improved documentation.
516 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
517 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
518     watchers.
519 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
520 root 1.4
521 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
522 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
523 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
524     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
525     - change how include files are found.
526     - doc updates.
527     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
528    
529     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
530     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
531     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
532     - fix embed watchers.
533     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
534     - added exported Symbol tables.
535     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
536     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
537    
538     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
539     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
540    
541     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
542     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
543     (not relevant for perl).
544    
545     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
546    
547 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
548     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
549