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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.14 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2 root 1.1
3 root 1.341 TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of modern 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 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
10     avoid handlign spurious events from cancelled requests.
11 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
12 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
13     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
14 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
15     libecb counterparts.
16 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
17     - prepare io_uring integration.
18 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
19 root 1.334
20 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
21 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
22 root 1.329 limitations.
23 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
24 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
25 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
26     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
27     user error.
28     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
29     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
30 root 1.329
31     4.26 (EV only)
32     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
33 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
34 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
35 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
36 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
37     - minor code cleanups.
38 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
39 root 1.324
40 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
41     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
42 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
43 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
44 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
45 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
46 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
47     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
48 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
49 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
50     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
51 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
52 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
53     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
54 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
55 root 1.314
56 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
57     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
58     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
59     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
60    
61 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
62 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
63     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
64     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
65    
66 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
67 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
68     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
69     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
70     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
71     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
72     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
73     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
74 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
75 root 1.308
76 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
77 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
78 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
79 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
80 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
81 root 1.301
82 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
83 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
84 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
85     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
86     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
87 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
88     functionality.
89    
90 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
91 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
92     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
93 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
94 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
95 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
96     when we can't detect the signal set size.
97 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
98     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
99     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
100 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
101     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
102 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
103     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
104 root 1.288
105 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
106 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
107     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
108 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
109     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
110 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
111     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
112     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
113     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
114 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
115     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
116 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
117 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
118     be overfenced than underprotected.
119 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
120     still active).
121 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
122     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
123 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
124     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
125 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
126 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
127     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
128 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
129     in many cases.
130 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
131 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
132     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
133 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
134 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
135     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
136 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
137     Denis Bilenko).
138 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
139 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
140     the watcher base set (loop) method.
141 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
142 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
143 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
144 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
145     inotify-supporting filesystems.
146 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
147     versions ignore it before
148     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
149 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
150 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
151 root 1.253
152 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
153 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
154     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
155 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
156 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
157     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
158 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
159     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
160     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
161 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
162 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
163     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
164 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
165 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
166 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
167 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
168     as no external libraries are required.
169 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
170 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
171 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
172 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
173 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
174     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
175     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
176 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
177     static.
178 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
179     were empty.
180 root 1.225
181 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
182     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
183     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
184     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
185 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
186 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
187 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
188     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
189 root 1.221
190 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
191 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
192 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
193     backend, by generating events on our own.
194 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
195     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
196     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
197     than that).
198 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
199     #ifdef to test for them.
200 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
201     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
202     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
203 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
204 root 1.209
205 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
206 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
207 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
208     event.h on make install. grrr.
209     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
210 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
211 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
212 root 1.203
213 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
214 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
215 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
216     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
217 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
218 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
219 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
220     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
221 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
222 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
223 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
224     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
225 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
226     did not work properly.
227 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
228 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
229 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
230     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
231     even when there is nothing to set.
232 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
233 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
234     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
235 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
236     on freebsd...).
237 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
238 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
239     override it.
240 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
241     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
242 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
243     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
244     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
245 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
246     in an obscure case.
247 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
248     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
249     no sscanf dependency).
250 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
251 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
252 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
253 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
254 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
255 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
256 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
257 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
258 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
259 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
260     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
261 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
262     default arguments when compiled as C++.
263 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
264 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
265 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
266 root 1.157
267 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
268 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
269     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
270     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
271     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
272     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
273 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
274 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
275 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
276 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
277 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
278 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
279 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
280 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
281     (patch by Didier Spezia).
282 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
283     on fd creation, to avoid races.
284 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
285     (analysed by lekma).
286 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
287     signalfd.
288 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
289 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
290     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
291 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
292 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
293 root 1.142
294 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
295 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
296     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
297 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
298 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
299 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
300 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
301     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
302     state when using libev's signal handling.
303 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
304     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
305 root 1.132
306 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
307 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
308     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
309     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
310     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
311 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
312 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
313     about thread locking.
314 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
315     - add ev_loop_depth.
316 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
317     for new events.
318 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
319     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
320     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
321     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
322 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
323 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
324 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
325     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
326 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
327 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
328 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
329 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
330 root 1.115
331 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
332 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
333     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
334 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
335     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
336     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
337     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
338 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
339     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
340     Malek Hadj-Ali).
341 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
342 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
343 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
344 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
345 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
346 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
347 root 1.102
348 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
349     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
350     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
351 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
352     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
353     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
354     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
355     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
356    
357 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
358 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
359     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
360     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
361     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
362     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
363     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
364     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
365 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
366     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
367     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
368 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
369     should return fantasy port numbers.
370 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
371 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
372 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
373     a useless string instead of the expected version string
374     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
375 root 1.95
376 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
377 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
378 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
379 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
380     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
381 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
382     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
383     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
384 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
385     automatically.
386 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
387     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
388     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
389 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
390     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
391 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
392 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
393     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
394     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
395 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
396 root 1.87
397 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
398 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
399     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
400     "known to be good" list.
401 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
402     (analysed by Roger Pack).
403 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
404     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
405     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
406     with their C compiler.
407 root 1.83
408 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
409 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
410     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
411     ADD fails with EEXIST.
412 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
413 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
414 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
415     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
416 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
417     init functions.
418 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
419     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
420 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
421     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
422 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
423     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
424 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
425     do similar changes for event.c.
426 root 1.71
427 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
428 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
429     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
430 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
431 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
432 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
433 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
434     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
435 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
436 root 1.65
437 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
438     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
439     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
440 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
441 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
442 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
443 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
444 root 1.57
445 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
446 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
447 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
448 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
449     Matt Tolton).
450    
451 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
452 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
453     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
454 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
455     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
456 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
457 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
458     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
459     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
460     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
461     reported by Matt Tolton.
462 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
463 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
464 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
465     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
466     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
467 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
468     and some other default values.
469 root 1.45
470 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
471 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
472 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
473 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
474 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
475     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
476     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
477     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
478     2-based heaps.
479 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
480     memory accesses.
481     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
482 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
483 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
484     - improve ev_stat docs.
485     - add portability requirements section.
486 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
487 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
488 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
489     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
490 root 1.31
491 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
492     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
493 root 1.29
494 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
495 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
496     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
497 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
498     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
499     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
500 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
501     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
502     C99 or gcc are available.
503     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
504 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
505     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
506     (no such systems are known at this time).
507 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
508 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
509 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
510 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
511 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
512 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
513 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
514 root 1.20
515 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
516 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
517     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
518 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
519 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
520     flags of any outer loops anymore.
521 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
522 root 1.15
523 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
524 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
525 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
526     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
527 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
528 root 1.10
529 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
530 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
531 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
532     - slightly improved documentation.
533 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
534 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
535     watchers.
536 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
537 root 1.4
538 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
539 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
540 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
541     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
542     - change how include files are found.
543     - doc updates.
544     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
545    
546     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
547     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
548     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
549     - fix embed watchers.
550     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
551     - added exported Symbol tables.
552     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
553     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
554    
555     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
556     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
557    
558     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
559     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
560     (not relevant for perl).
561    
562     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
563    
564 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
565     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
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