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Revision: 1.336
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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 1.334 TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of mdoenr powersaving
4 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
5     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
6 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
7     io_asubmit also retursn EINTR.
8 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
9     libecb counterparts.
10 root 1.334
11 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
12 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
13 root 1.329 limitations.
14 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
15 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
16 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
17     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
18     user error.
19     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
20     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
21 root 1.329
22     4.26 (EV only)
23     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
24 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
25 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
26 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
27 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
28     - minor code cleanups.
29 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
30 root 1.324
31 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
32     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
33 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
34 root 1.320 - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
35 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
36 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
37 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
38     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
39 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
40 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
41     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
42 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
43 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
44     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
45 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
46 root 1.314
47 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
48     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
49     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
50     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
51    
52 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
53 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
54     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
55     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
56    
57 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
58 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
59     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
60     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
61     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
62     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
63     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
64     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
65 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
66 root 1.308
67 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
68 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
69 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
70 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
71 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
72 root 1.301
73 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
74 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
75 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
76     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
77     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
78 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
79     functionality.
80    
81 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
82 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
83     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
84 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
85 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
86 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
87     when we can't detect the signal set size.
88 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
89     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
90     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
91 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
92     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
93 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
94     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
95 root 1.288
96 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
97 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
98     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
99 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
100     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
101 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
102     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
103     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
104     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
105 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
106     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
107 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
108 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
109     be overfenced than underprotected.
110 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
111     still active).
112 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
113     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
114 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
115     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
116 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
117 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
118     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
119 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
120     in many cases.
121 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
122 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
123     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
124 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
125 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
126     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
127 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
128     Denis Bilenko).
129 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
130 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
131     the watcher base set (loop) method.
132 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
133 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
134 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
135 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
136     inotify-supporting filesystems.
137 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
138     versions ignore it before
139     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
140 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
141 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
142 root 1.253
143 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
144 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
145     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
146 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
147 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
148     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
149 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
150     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
151     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
152 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
153 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
154     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
155 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
156 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
157 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
158 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
159     as no external libraries are required.
160 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
161 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
162 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
163 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
164 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
165     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
166     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
167 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
168     static.
169 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
170     were empty.
171 root 1.225
172 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
173     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
174     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
175     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
176 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
177 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
178 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
179     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
180 root 1.221
181 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
182 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
183 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
184     backend, by generating events on our own.
185 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
186     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
187     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
188     than that).
189 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
190     #ifdef to test for them.
191 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
192     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
193     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
194 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
195 root 1.209
196 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
197 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
198 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
199     event.h on make install. grrr.
200     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
201 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
202 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
203 root 1.203
204 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
205 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
206 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
207     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
208 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
209 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
210 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
211     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
212 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
213 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
214 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
215     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
216 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
217     did not work properly.
218 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
219 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
220 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
221     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
222     even when there is nothing to set.
223 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
224 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
225     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
226 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
227     on freebsd...).
228 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
229 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
230     override it.
231 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
232     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
233 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
234     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
235     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
236 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
237     in an obscure case.
238 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
239     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
240     no sscanf dependency).
241 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
242 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
243 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
244 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
245 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
246 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
247 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
248 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
249 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
250 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
251     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
252 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
253     default arguments when compiled as C++.
254 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
255 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
256 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
257 root 1.157
258 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
259 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
260     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
261     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
262     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
263     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
264 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
265 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
266 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
267 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
268 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
269 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
270 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
271 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
272     (patch by Didier Spezia).
273 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
274     on fd creation, to avoid races.
275 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
276     (analysed by lekma).
277 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
278     signalfd.
279 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
280 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
281     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
282 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
283 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
284 root 1.142
285 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
286 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
287     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
288 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
289 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
290 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
291 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
292     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
293     state when using libev's signal handling.
294 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
295     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
296 root 1.132
297 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
298 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
299     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
300     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
301     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
302 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
303 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
304     about thread locking.
305 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
306     - add ev_loop_depth.
307 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
308     for new events.
309 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
310     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
311     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
312     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
313 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
314 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
315 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
316     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
317 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
318 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
319 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
320 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
321 root 1.115
322 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
323 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
324     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
325 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
326     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
327     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
328     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
329 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
330     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
331     Malek Hadj-Ali).
332 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
333 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
334 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
335 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
336 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
337 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
338 root 1.102
339 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
340     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
341     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
342 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
343     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
344     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
345     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
346     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
347    
348 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
349 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
350     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
351     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
352     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
353     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
354     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
355     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
356 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
357     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
358     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
359 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
360     should return fantasy port numbers.
361 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
362 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
363 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
364     a useless string instead of the expected version string
365     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
366 root 1.95
367 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
368 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
369 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
370 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
371     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
372 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
373     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
374     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
375 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
376     automatically.
377 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
378     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
379     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
380 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
381     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
382 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
383 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
384     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
385     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
386 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
387 root 1.87
388 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
389 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
390     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
391     "known to be good" list.
392 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
393     (analysed by Roger Pack).
394 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
395     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
396     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
397     with their C compiler.
398 root 1.83
399 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
400 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
401     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
402     ADD fails with EEXIST.
403 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
404 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
405 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
406     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
407 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
408     init functions.
409 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
410     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
411 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
412     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
413 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
414     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
415 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
416     do similar changes for event.c.
417 root 1.71
418 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
419 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
420     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
421 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
422 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
423 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
424 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
425     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
426 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
427 root 1.65
428 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
429     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
430     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
431 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
432 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
433 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
434 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
435 root 1.57
436 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
437 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
438 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
439 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
440     Matt Tolton).
441    
442 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
443 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
444     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
445 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
446     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
447 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
448 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
449     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
450     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
451     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
452     reported by Matt Tolton.
453 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
454 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
455 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
456     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
457     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
458 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
459     and some other default values.
460 root 1.45
461 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
462 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
463 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
464 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
465 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
466     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
467     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
468     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
469     2-based heaps.
470 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
471     memory accesses.
472     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
473 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
474 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
475     - improve ev_stat docs.
476     - add portability requirements section.
477 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
478 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
479 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
480     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
481 root 1.31
482 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
483     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
484 root 1.29
485 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
486 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
487     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
488 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
489     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
490     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
491 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
492     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
493     C99 or gcc are available.
494     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
495 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
496     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
497     (no such systems are known at this time).
498 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
499 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
500 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
501 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
502 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
503 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
504 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
505 root 1.20
506 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
507 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
508     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
509 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
510 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
511     flags of any outer loops anymore.
512 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
513 root 1.15
514 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
515 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
516 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
517     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
518 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
519 root 1.10
520 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
521 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
522 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
523     - slightly improved documentation.
524 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
525 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
526     watchers.
527 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
528 root 1.4
529 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
530 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
531 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
532     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
533     - change how include files are found.
534     - doc updates.
535     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
536    
537     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
538     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
539     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
540     - fix embed watchers.
541     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
542     - added exported Symbol tables.
543     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
544     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
545    
546     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
547     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
548    
549     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
550     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
551     (not relevant for perl).
552    
553     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
554    
555 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
556     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
557