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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 root 1.338 TODO: maybe use timerfd to detect time jumps on linux
5 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
6     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
7 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
8     io_asubmit also retursn EINTR.
9 root 1.338 - fix some othe rminor bugs in linuxaio backend.
10 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
11     libecb counterparts.
12 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
13     - prepare io_uring integration.
14 root 1.334
15 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
16 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
17 root 1.329 limitations.
18 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
19 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
20 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
21     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
22     user error.
23     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
24     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
25 root 1.329
26     4.26 (EV only)
27     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
28 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
29 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
30 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
31 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
32     - minor code cleanups.
33 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
34 root 1.324
35 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
36     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
37 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
38 root 1.320 - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
39 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
40 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
41 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
42     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
43 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
44 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
45     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
46 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
47 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
48     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
49 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
50 root 1.314
51 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
52     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
53     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
54     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
55    
56 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
57 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
58     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
59     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
60    
61 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
62 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
63     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
64     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
65     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
66     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
67     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
68     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
69 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
70 root 1.308
71 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
72 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
73 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
74 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
75 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
76 root 1.301
77 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
78 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
79 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
80     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
81     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
82 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
83     functionality.
84    
85 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
86 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
87     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
88 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
89 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
90 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
91     when we can't detect the signal set size.
92 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
93     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
94     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
95 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
96     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
97 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
98     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
99 root 1.288
100 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
101 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
102     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
103 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
104     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
105 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
106     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
107     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
108     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
109 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
110     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
111 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
112 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
113     be overfenced than underprotected.
114 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
115     still active).
116 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
117     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
118 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
119     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
120 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
121 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
122     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
123 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
124     in many cases.
125 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
126 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
127     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
128 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
129 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
130     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
131 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
132     Denis Bilenko).
133 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
134 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
135     the watcher base set (loop) method.
136 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
137 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
138 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
139 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
140     inotify-supporting filesystems.
141 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
142     versions ignore it before
143     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
144 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
145 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
146 root 1.253
147 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
148 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
149     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
150 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
151 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
152     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
153 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
154     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
155     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
156 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
157 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
158     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
159 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
160 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
161 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
162 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
163     as no external libraries are required.
164 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
165 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
166 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
167 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
168 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
169     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
170     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
171 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
172     static.
173 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
174     were empty.
175 root 1.225
176 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
177     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
178     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
179     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
180 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
181 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
182 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
183     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
184 root 1.221
185 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
186 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
187 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
188     backend, by generating events on our own.
189 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
190     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
191     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
192     than that).
193 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
194     #ifdef to test for them.
195 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
196     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
197     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
198 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
199 root 1.209
200 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
201 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
202 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
203     event.h on make install. grrr.
204     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
205 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
206 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
207 root 1.203
208 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
209 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
210 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
211     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
212 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
213 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
214 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
215     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
216 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
217 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
218 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
219     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
220 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
221     did not work properly.
222 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
223 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
224 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
225     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
226     even when there is nothing to set.
227 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
228 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
229     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
230 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
231     on freebsd...).
232 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
233 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
234     override it.
235 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
236     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
237 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
238     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
239     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
240 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
241     in an obscure case.
242 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
243     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
244     no sscanf dependency).
245 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
246 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
247 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
248 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
249 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
250 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
251 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
252 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
253 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
254 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
255     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
256 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
257     default arguments when compiled as C++.
258 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
259 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
260 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
261 root 1.157
262 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
263 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
264     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
265     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
266     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
267     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
268 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
269 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
270 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
271 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
272 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
273 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
274 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
275 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
276     (patch by Didier Spezia).
277 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
278     on fd creation, to avoid races.
279 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
280     (analysed by lekma).
281 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
282     signalfd.
283 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
284 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
285     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
286 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
287 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
288 root 1.142
289 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
290 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
291     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
292 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
293 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
294 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
295 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
296     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
297     state when using libev's signal handling.
298 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
299     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
300 root 1.132
301 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
302 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
303     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
304     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
305     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
306 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
307 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
308     about thread locking.
309 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
310     - add ev_loop_depth.
311 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
312     for new events.
313 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
314     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
315     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
316     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
317 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
318 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
319 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
320     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
321 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
322 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
323 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
324 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
325 root 1.115
326 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
327 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
328     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
329 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
330     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
331     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
332     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
333 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
334     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
335     Malek Hadj-Ali).
336 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
337 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
338 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
339 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
340 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
341 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
342 root 1.102
343 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
344     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
345     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
346 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
347     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
348     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
349     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
350     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
351    
352 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
353 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
354     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
355     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
356     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
357     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
358     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
359     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
360 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
361     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
362     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
363 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
364     should return fantasy port numbers.
365 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
366 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
367 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
368     a useless string instead of the expected version string
369     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
370 root 1.95
371 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
372 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
373 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
374 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
375     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
376 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
377     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
378     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
379 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
380     automatically.
381 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
382     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
383     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
384 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
385     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
386 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
387 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
388     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
389     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
390 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
391 root 1.87
392 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
393 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
394     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
395     "known to be good" list.
396 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
397     (analysed by Roger Pack).
398 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
399     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
400     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
401     with their C compiler.
402 root 1.83
403 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
404 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
405     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
406     ADD fails with EEXIST.
407 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
408 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
409 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
410     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
411 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
412     init functions.
413 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
414     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
415 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
416     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
417 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
418     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
419 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
420     do similar changes for event.c.
421 root 1.71
422 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
423 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
424     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
425 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
426 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
427 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
428 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
429     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
430 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
431 root 1.65
432 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
433     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
434     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
435 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
436 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
437 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
438 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
439 root 1.57
440 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
441 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
442 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
443 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
444     Matt Tolton).
445    
446 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
447 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
448     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
449 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
450     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
451 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
452 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
453     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
454     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
455     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
456     reported by Matt Tolton.
457 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
458 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
459 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
460     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
461     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
462 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
463     and some other default values.
464 root 1.45
465 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
466 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
467 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
468 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
469 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
470     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
471     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
472     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
473     2-based heaps.
474 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
475     memory accesses.
476     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
477 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
478 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
479     - improve ev_stat docs.
480     - add portability requirements section.
481 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
482 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
483 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
484     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
485 root 1.31
486 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
487     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
488 root 1.29
489 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
490 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
491     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
492 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
493     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
494     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
495 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
496     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
497     C99 or gcc are available.
498     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
499 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
500     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
501     (no such systems are known at this time).
502 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
503 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
504 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
505 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
506 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
507 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
508 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
509 root 1.20
510 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
511 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
512     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
513 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
514 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
515     flags of any outer loops anymore.
516 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
517 root 1.15
518 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
519 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
520 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
521     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
522 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
523 root 1.10
524 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
525 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
526 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
527     - slightly improved documentation.
528 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
529 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
530     watchers.
531 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
532 root 1.4
533 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
534 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
535 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
536     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
537     - change how include files are found.
538     - doc updates.
539     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
540    
541     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
542     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
543     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
544     - fix embed watchers.
545     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
546     - added exported Symbol tables.
547     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
548     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
549    
550     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
551     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
552    
553     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
554     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
555     (not relevant for perl).
556    
557     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
558    
559 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
560     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
561