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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 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
15 root 1.334
16 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
17 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
18 root 1.329 limitations.
19 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
20 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
21 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
22     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
23     user error.
24     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
25     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
26 root 1.329
27     4.26 (EV only)
28     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
29 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
30 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
31 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
32 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
33     - minor code cleanups.
34 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
35 root 1.324
36 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
37     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
38 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
39 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
40 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
41 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
42 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
43     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
44 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
45 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
46     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
47 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
48 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
49     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
50 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
51 root 1.314
52 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
53     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
54     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
55     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
56    
57 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
58 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
59     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
60     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
61    
62 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
63 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
64     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
65     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
66     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
67     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
68     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
69     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
70 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
71 root 1.308
72 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
73 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
74 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
75 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
76 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
77 root 1.301
78 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
79 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
80 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
81     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
82     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
83 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
84     functionality.
85    
86 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
87 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
88     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
89 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
90 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
91 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
92     when we can't detect the signal set size.
93 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
94     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
95     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
96 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
97     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
98 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
99     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
100 root 1.288
101 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
102 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
103     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
104 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
105     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
106 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
107     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
108     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
109     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
110 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
111     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
112 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
113 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
114     be overfenced than underprotected.
115 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
116     still active).
117 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
118     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
119 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
120     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
121 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
122 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
123     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
124 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
125     in many cases.
126 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
127 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
128     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
129 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
130 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
131     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
132 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
133     Denis Bilenko).
134 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
135 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
136     the watcher base set (loop) method.
137 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
138 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
139 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
140 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
141     inotify-supporting filesystems.
142 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
143     versions ignore it before
144     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
145 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
146 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
147 root 1.253
148 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
149 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
150     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
151 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
152 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
153     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
154 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
155     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
156     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
157 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
158 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
159     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
160 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
161 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
162 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
163 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
164     as no external libraries are required.
165 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
166 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
167 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
168 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
169 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
170     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
171     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
172 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
173     static.
174 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
175     were empty.
176 root 1.225
177 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
178     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
179     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
180     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
181 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
182 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
183 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
184     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
185 root 1.221
186 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
187 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
188 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
189     backend, by generating events on our own.
190 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
191     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
192     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
193     than that).
194 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
195     #ifdef to test for them.
196 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
197     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
198     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
199 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
200 root 1.209
201 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
202 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
203 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
204     event.h on make install. grrr.
205     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
206 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
207 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
208 root 1.203
209 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
210 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
211 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
212     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
213 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
214 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
215 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
216     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
217 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
218 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
219 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
220     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
221 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
222     did not work properly.
223 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
224 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
225 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
226     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
227     even when there is nothing to set.
228 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
229 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
230     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
231 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
232     on freebsd...).
233 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
234 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
235     override it.
236 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
237     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
238 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
239     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
240     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
241 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
242     in an obscure case.
243 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
244     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
245     no sscanf dependency).
246 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
247 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
248 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
249 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
250 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
251 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
252 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
253 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
254 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
255 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
256     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
257 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
258     default arguments when compiled as C++.
259 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
260 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
261 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
262 root 1.157
263 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
264 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
265     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
266     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
267     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
268     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
269 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
270 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
271 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
272 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
273 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
274 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
275 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
276 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
277     (patch by Didier Spezia).
278 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
279     on fd creation, to avoid races.
280 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
281     (analysed by lekma).
282 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
283     signalfd.
284 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
285 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
286     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
287 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
288 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
289 root 1.142
290 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
291 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
292     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
293 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
294 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
295 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
296 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
297     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
298     state when using libev's signal handling.
299 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
300     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
301 root 1.132
302 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
303 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
304     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
305     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
306     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
307 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
308 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
309     about thread locking.
310 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
311     - add ev_loop_depth.
312 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
313     for new events.
314 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
315     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
316     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
317     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
318 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
319 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
320 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
321     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
322 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
323 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
324 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
325 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
326 root 1.115
327 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
328 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
329     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
330 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
331     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
332     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
333     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
334 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
335     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
336     Malek Hadj-Ali).
337 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
338 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
339 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
340 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
341 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
342 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
343 root 1.102
344 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
345     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
346     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
347 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
348     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
349     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
350     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
351     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
352    
353 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
354 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
355     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
356     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
357     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
358     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
359     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
360     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
361 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
362     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
363     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
364 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
365     should return fantasy port numbers.
366 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
367 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
368 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
369     a useless string instead of the expected version string
370     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
371 root 1.95
372 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
373 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
374 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
375 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
376     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
377 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
378     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
379     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
380 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
381     automatically.
382 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
383     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
384     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
385 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
386     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
387 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
388 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
389     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
390     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
391 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
392 root 1.87
393 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
394 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
395     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
396     "known to be good" list.
397 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
398     (analysed by Roger Pack).
399 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
400     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
401     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
402     with their C compiler.
403 root 1.83
404 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
405 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
406     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
407     ADD fails with EEXIST.
408 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
409 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
410 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
411     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
412 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
413     init functions.
414 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
415     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
416 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
417     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
418 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
419     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
420 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
421     do similar changes for event.c.
422 root 1.71
423 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
424 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
425     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
426 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
427 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
428 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
429 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
430     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
431 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
432 root 1.65
433 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
434     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
435     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
436 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
437 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
438 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
439 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
440 root 1.57
441 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
442 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
443 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
444 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
445     Matt Tolton).
446    
447 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
448 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
449     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
450 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
451     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
452 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
453 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
454     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
455     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
456     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
457     reported by Matt Tolton.
458 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
459 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
460 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
461     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
462     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
463 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
464     and some other default values.
465 root 1.45
466 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
467 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
468 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
469 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
470 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
471     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
472     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
473     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
474     2-based heaps.
475 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
476     memory accesses.
477     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
478 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
479 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
480     - improve ev_stat docs.
481     - add portability requirements section.
482 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
483 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
484 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
485     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
486 root 1.31
487 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
488     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
489 root 1.29
490 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
491 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
492     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
493 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
494     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
495     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
496 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
497     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
498     C99 or gcc are available.
499     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
500 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
501     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
502     (no such systems are known at this time).
503 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
504 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
505 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
506 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
507 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
508 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
509 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
510 root 1.20
511 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
512 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
513     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
514 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
515 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
516     flags of any outer loops anymore.
517 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
518 root 1.15
519 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
520 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
521 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
522     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
523 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
524 root 1.10
525 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
526 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
527 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
528     - slightly improved documentation.
529 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
530 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
531     watchers.
532 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
533 root 1.4
534 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
535 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
536 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
537     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
538     - change how include files are found.
539     - doc updates.
540     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
541    
542     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
543     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
544     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
545     - fix embed watchers.
546     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
547     - added exported Symbol tables.
548     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
549     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
550    
551     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
552     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
553    
554     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
555     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
556     (not relevant for perl).
557    
558     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
559    
560 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
561     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
562