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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 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
6     when loop is forked.
7 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
8     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
9 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
10     io_asubmit also retursn EINTR.
11 root 1.338 - fix some othe rminor bugs in linuxaio backend.
12 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
13     libecb counterparts.
14 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
15     - prepare io_uring integration.
16 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
17 root 1.334
18 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
19 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
20 root 1.329 limitations.
21 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
22 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
23 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
24     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
25     user error.
26     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
27     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
28 root 1.329
29     4.26 (EV only)
30     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
31 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
32 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
33 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
34 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
35     - minor code cleanups.
36 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
37 root 1.324
38 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
39     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
40 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
41 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
42 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
43 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
44 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
45     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
46 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
47 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
48     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
49 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
50 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
51     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
52 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
53 root 1.314
54 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
55     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
56     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
57     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
58    
59 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
60 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
61     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
62     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
63    
64 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
65 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
66     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
67     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
68     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
69     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
70     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
71     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
72 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
73 root 1.308
74 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
75 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
76 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
77 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
78 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
79 root 1.301
80 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
81 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
82 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
83     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
84     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
85 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
86     functionality.
87    
88 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
89 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
90     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
91 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
92 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
93 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
94     when we can't detect the signal set size.
95 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
96     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
97     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
98 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
99     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
100 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
101     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
102 root 1.288
103 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
104 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
105     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
106 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
107     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
108 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
109     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
110     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
111     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
112 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
113     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
114 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
115 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
116     be overfenced than underprotected.
117 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
118     still active).
119 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
120     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
121 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
122     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
123 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
124 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
125     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
126 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
127     in many cases.
128 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
129 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
130     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
131 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
132 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
133     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
134 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
135     Denis Bilenko).
136 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
137 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
138     the watcher base set (loop) method.
139 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
140 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
141 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
142 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
143     inotify-supporting filesystems.
144 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
145     versions ignore it before
146     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
147 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
148 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
149 root 1.253
150 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
151 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
152     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
153 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
154 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
155     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
156 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
157     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
158     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
159 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
160 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
161     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
162 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
163 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
164 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
165 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
166     as no external libraries are required.
167 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
168 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
169 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
170 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
171 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
172     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
173     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
174 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
175     static.
176 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
177     were empty.
178 root 1.225
179 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
180     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
181     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
182     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
183 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
184 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
185 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
186     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
187 root 1.221
188 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
189 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
190 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
191     backend, by generating events on our own.
192 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
193     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
194     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
195     than that).
196 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
197     #ifdef to test for them.
198 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
199     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
200     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
201 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
202 root 1.209
203 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
204 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
205 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
206     event.h on make install. grrr.
207     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
208 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
209 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
210 root 1.203
211 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
212 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
213 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
214     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
215 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
216 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
217 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
218     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
219 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
220 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
221 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
222     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
223 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
224     did not work properly.
225 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
226 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
227 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
228     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
229     even when there is nothing to set.
230 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
231 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
232     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
233 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
234     on freebsd...).
235 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
236 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
237     override it.
238 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
239     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
240 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
241     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
242     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
243 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
244     in an obscure case.
245 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
246     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
247     no sscanf dependency).
248 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
249 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
250 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
251 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
252 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
253 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
254 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
255 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
256 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
257 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
258     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
259 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
260     default arguments when compiled as C++.
261 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
262 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
263 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
264 root 1.157
265 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
266 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
267     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
268     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
269     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
270     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
271 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
272 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
273 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
274 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
275 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
276 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
277 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
278 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
279     (patch by Didier Spezia).
280 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
281     on fd creation, to avoid races.
282 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
283     (analysed by lekma).
284 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
285     signalfd.
286 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
287 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
288     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
289 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
290 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
291 root 1.142
292 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
293 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
294     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
295 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
296 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
297 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
298 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
299     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
300     state when using libev's signal handling.
301 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
302     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
303 root 1.132
304 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
305 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
306     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
307     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
308     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
309 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
310 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
311     about thread locking.
312 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
313     - add ev_loop_depth.
314 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
315     for new events.
316 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
317     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
318     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
319     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
320 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
321 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
322 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
323     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
324 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
325 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
326 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
327 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
328 root 1.115
329 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
330 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
331     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
332 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
333     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
334     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
335     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
336 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
337     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
338     Malek Hadj-Ali).
339 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
340 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
341 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
342 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
343 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
344 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
345 root 1.102
346 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
347     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
348     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
349 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
350     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
351     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
352     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
353     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
354    
355 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
356 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
357     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
358     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
359     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
360     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
361     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
362     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
363 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
364     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
365     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
366 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
367     should return fantasy port numbers.
368 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
369 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
370 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
371     a useless string instead of the expected version string
372     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
373 root 1.95
374 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
375 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
376 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
377 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
378     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
379 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
380     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
381     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
382 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
383     automatically.
384 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
385     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
386     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
387 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
388     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
389 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
390 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
391     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
392     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
393 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
394 root 1.87
395 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
396 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
397     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
398     "known to be good" list.
399 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
400     (analysed by Roger Pack).
401 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
402     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
403     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
404     with their C compiler.
405 root 1.83
406 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
407 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
408     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
409     ADD fails with EEXIST.
410 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
411 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
412 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
413     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
414 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
415     init functions.
416 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
417     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
418 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
419     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
420 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
421     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
422 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
423     do similar changes for event.c.
424 root 1.71
425 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
426 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
427     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
428 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
429 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
430 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
431 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
432     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
433 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
434 root 1.65
435 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
436     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
437     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
438 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
439 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
440 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
441 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
442 root 1.57
443 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
444 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
445 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
446 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
447     Matt Tolton).
448    
449 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
450 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
451     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
452 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
453     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
454 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
455 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
456     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
457     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
458     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
459     reported by Matt Tolton.
460 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
461 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
462 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
463     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
464     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
465 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
466     and some other default values.
467 root 1.45
468 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
469 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
470 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
471 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
472 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
473     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
474     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
475     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
476     2-based heaps.
477 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
478     memory accesses.
479     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
480 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
481 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
482     - improve ev_stat docs.
483     - add portability requirements section.
484 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
485 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
486 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
487     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
488 root 1.31
489 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
490     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
491 root 1.29
492 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
493 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
494     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
495 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
496     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
497     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
498 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
499     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
500     C99 or gcc are available.
501     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
502 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
503     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
504     (no such systems are known at this time).
505 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
506 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
507 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
508 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
509 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
510 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
511 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
512 root 1.20
513 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
514 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
515     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
516 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
517 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
518     flags of any outer loops anymore.
519 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
520 root 1.15
521 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
522 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
523 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
524     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
525 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
526 root 1.10
527 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
528 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
529 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
530     - slightly improved documentation.
531 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
532 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
533     watchers.
534 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
535 root 1.4
536 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
537 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
538 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
539     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
540     - change how include files are found.
541     - doc updates.
542     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
543    
544     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
545     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
546     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
547     - fix embed watchers.
548     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
549     - added exported Symbol tables.
550     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
551     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
552    
553     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
554     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
555    
556     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
557     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
558     (not relevant for perl).
559    
560     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
561    
562 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
563     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
564