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1 root 1.14 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2 root 1.1
3 root 1.334 TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of mdoenr powersaving
4     - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
5     io_asubmit also retursn EINTR.
6    
7 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
8 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
9 root 1.329 limitations.
10 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
11 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
12 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
13     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
14     user error.
15     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
16     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
17 root 1.329
18     4.26 (EV only)
19     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
20 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
21 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
22 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
23 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
24     - minor code cleanups.
25 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
26 root 1.324
27 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
28     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
29 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
30 root 1.320 - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
31 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
32 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
33 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
34     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
35 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
36 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
37     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
38 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
39 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
40     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
41 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
42 root 1.314
43 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
44     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
45     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
46     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
47    
48 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
49 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
50     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
51     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
52    
53 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
54 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
55     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
56     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
57     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
58     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
59     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
60     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
61 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
62 root 1.308
63 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
64 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
65 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
66 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
67 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
68 root 1.301
69 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
70 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
71 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
72     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
73     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
74 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
75     functionality.
76    
77 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
78 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
79     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
80 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
81 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
82 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
83     when we can't detect the signal set size.
84 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
85     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
86     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
87 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
88     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
89 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
90     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
91 root 1.288
92 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
93 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
94     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
95 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
96     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
97 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
98     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
99     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
100     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
101 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
102     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
103 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
104 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
105     be overfenced than underprotected.
106 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
107     still active).
108 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
109     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
110 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
111     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
112 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
113 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
114     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
115 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
116     in many cases.
117 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
118 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
119     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
120 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
121 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
122     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
123 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
124     Denis Bilenko).
125 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
126 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
127     the watcher base set (loop) method.
128 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
129 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
130 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
131 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
132     inotify-supporting filesystems.
133 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
134     versions ignore it before
135     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
136 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
137 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
138 root 1.253
139 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
140 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
141     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
142 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
143 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
144     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
145 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
146     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
147     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
148 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
149 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
150     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
151 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
152 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
153 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
154 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
155     as no external libraries are required.
156 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
157 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
158 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
159 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
160 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
161     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
162     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
163 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
164     static.
165 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
166     were empty.
167 root 1.225
168 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
169     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
170     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
171     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
172 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
173 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
174 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
175     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
176 root 1.221
177 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
178 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
179 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
180     backend, by generating events on our own.
181 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
182     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
183     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
184     than that).
185 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
186     #ifdef to test for them.
187 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
188     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
189     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
190 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
191 root 1.209
192 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
193 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
194 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
195     event.h on make install. grrr.
196     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
197 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
198 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
199 root 1.203
200 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
201 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
202 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
203     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
204 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
205 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
206 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
207     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
208 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
209 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
210 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
211     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
212 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
213     did not work properly.
214 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
215 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
216 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
217     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
218     even when there is nothing to set.
219 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
220 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
221     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
222 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
223     on freebsd...).
224 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
225 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
226     override it.
227 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
228     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
229 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
230     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
231     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
232 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
233     in an obscure case.
234 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
235     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
236     no sscanf dependency).
237 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
238 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
239 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
240 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
241 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
242 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
243 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
244 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
245 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
246 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
247     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
248 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
249     default arguments when compiled as C++.
250 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
251 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
252 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
253 root 1.157
254 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
255 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
256     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
257     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
258     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
259     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
260 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
261 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
262 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
263 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
264 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
265 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
266 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
267 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
268     (patch by Didier Spezia).
269 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
270     on fd creation, to avoid races.
271 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
272     (analysed by lekma).
273 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
274     signalfd.
275 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
276 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
277     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
278 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
279 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
280 root 1.142
281 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
282 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
283     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
284 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
285 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
286 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
287 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
288     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
289     state when using libev's signal handling.
290 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
291     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
292 root 1.132
293 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
294 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
295     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
296     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
297     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
298 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
299 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
300     about thread locking.
301 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
302     - add ev_loop_depth.
303 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
304     for new events.
305 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
306     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
307     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
308     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
309 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
310 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
311 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
312     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
313 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
314 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
315 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
316 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
317 root 1.115
318 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
319 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
320     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
321 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
322     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
323     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
324     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
325 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
326     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
327     Malek Hadj-Ali).
328 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
329 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
330 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
331 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
332 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
333 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
334 root 1.102
335 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
336     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
337     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
338 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
339     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
340     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
341     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
342     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
343    
344 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
345 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
346     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
347     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
348     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
349     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
350     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
351     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
352 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
353     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
354     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
355 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
356     should return fantasy port numbers.
357 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
358 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
359 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
360     a useless string instead of the expected version string
361     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
362 root 1.95
363 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
364 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
365 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
366 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
367     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
368 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
369     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
370     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
371 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
372     automatically.
373 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
374     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
375     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
376 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
377     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
378 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
379 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
380     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
381     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
382 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
383 root 1.87
384 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
385 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
386     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
387     "known to be good" list.
388 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
389     (analysed by Roger Pack).
390 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
391     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
392     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
393     with their C compiler.
394 root 1.83
395 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
396 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
397     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
398     ADD fails with EEXIST.
399 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
400 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
401 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
402     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
403 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
404     init functions.
405 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
406     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
407 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
408     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
409 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
410     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
411 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
412     do similar changes for event.c.
413 root 1.71
414 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
415 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
416     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
417 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
418 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
419 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
420 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
421     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
422 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
423 root 1.65
424 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
425     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
426     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
427 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
428 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
429 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
430 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
431 root 1.57
432 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
433 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
434 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
435 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
436     Matt Tolton).
437    
438 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
439 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
440     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
441 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
442     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
443 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
444 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
445     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
446     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
447     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
448     reported by Matt Tolton.
449 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
450 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
451 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
452     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
453     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
454 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
455     and some other default values.
456 root 1.45
457 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
458 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
459 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
460 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
461 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
462     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
463     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
464     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
465     2-based heaps.
466 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
467     memory accesses.
468     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
469 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
470 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
471     - improve ev_stat docs.
472     - add portability requirements section.
473 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
474 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
475 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
476     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
477 root 1.31
478 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
479     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
480 root 1.29
481 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
482 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
483     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
484 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
485     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
486     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
487 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
488     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
489     C99 or gcc are available.
490     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
491 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
492     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
493     (no such systems are known at this time).
494 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
495 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
496 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
497 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
498 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
499 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
500 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
501 root 1.20
502 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
503 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
504     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
505 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
506 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
507     flags of any outer loops anymore.
508 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
509 root 1.15
510 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
511 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
512 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
513     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
514 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
515 root 1.10
516 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
517 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
518 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
519     - slightly improved documentation.
520 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
521 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
522     watchers.
523 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
524 root 1.4
525 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
526 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
527 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
528     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
529     - change how include files are found.
530     - doc updates.
531     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
532    
533     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
534     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
535     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
536     - fix embed watchers.
537     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
538     - added exported Symbol tables.
539     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
540     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
541    
542     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
543     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
544    
545     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
546     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
547     (not relevant for perl).
548    
549     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
550    
551 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
552     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
553