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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 1.341 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 1.342 TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
6 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
7     when loop is forked.
8 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
9     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
10 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
11 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
12 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
13 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
14     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
15 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
16 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
17     libecb counterparts.
18 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
19     - prepare io_uring integration.
20 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
21 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
22     reslution now all try to round up times.
23 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
24     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
25 root 1.334
26 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
27 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
28 root 1.329 limitations.
29 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
30 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
31 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
32     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
33     user error.
34     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
35     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
36 root 1.329
37     4.26 (EV only)
38     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
39 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
40 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
41 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
42 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
43     - minor code cleanups.
44 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
45 root 1.324
46 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
47     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
48 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
49 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
50 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
51 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
52 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
53     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
54 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
55 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
56     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
57 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
58 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
59     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
60 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
61 root 1.314
62 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
63     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
64     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
65     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
66    
67 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
68 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
69     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
70     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
71    
72 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
73 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
74     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
75     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
76     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
77     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
78     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
79     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
80 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
81 root 1.308
82 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
83 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
84 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
85 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
86 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
87 root 1.301
88 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
89 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
90 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
91     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
92     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
93 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
94     functionality.
95    
96 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
97 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
98     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
99 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
100 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
101 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
102     when we can't detect the signal set size.
103 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
104     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
105     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
106 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
107     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
108 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
109     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
110 root 1.288
111 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
112 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
113     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
114 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
115     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
116 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
117     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
118     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
119     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
120 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
121     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
122 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
123 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
124     be overfenced than underprotected.
125 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
126     still active).
127 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
128     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
129 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
130     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
131 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
132 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
133     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
134 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
135     in many cases.
136 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
137 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
138     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
139 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
140 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
141     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
142 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
143     Denis Bilenko).
144 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
145 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
146     the watcher base set (loop) method.
147 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
148 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
149 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
150 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
151     inotify-supporting filesystems.
152 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
153     versions ignore it before
154     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
155 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
156 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
157 root 1.253
158 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
159 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
160     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
161 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
162 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
163     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
164 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
165     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
166     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
167 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
168 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
169     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
170 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
171 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
172 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
173 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
174     as no external libraries are required.
175 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
176 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
177 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
178 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
179 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
180     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
181     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
182 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
183     static.
184 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
185     were empty.
186 root 1.225
187 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
188     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
189     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
190     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
191 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
192 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
193 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
194     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
195 root 1.221
196 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
197 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
198 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
199     backend, by generating events on our own.
200 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
201     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
202     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
203     than that).
204 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
205     #ifdef to test for them.
206 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
207     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
208     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
209 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
210 root 1.209
211 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
212 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
213 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
214     event.h on make install. grrr.
215     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
216 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
217 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
218 root 1.203
219 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
220 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
221 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
222     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
223 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
224 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
225 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
226     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
227 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
228 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
229 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
230     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
231 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
232     did not work properly.
233 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
234 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
235 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
236     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
237     even when there is nothing to set.
238 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
239 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
240     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
241 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
242     on freebsd...).
243 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
244 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
245     override it.
246 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
247     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
248 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
249     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
250     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
251 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
252     in an obscure case.
253 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
254     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
255     no sscanf dependency).
256 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
257 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
258 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
259 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
260 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
261 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
262 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
263 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
264 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
265 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
266     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
267 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
268     default arguments when compiled as C++.
269 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
270 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
271 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
272 root 1.157
273 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
274 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
275     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
276     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
277     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
278     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
279 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
280 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
281 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
282 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
283 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
284 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
285 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
286 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
287     (patch by Didier Spezia).
288 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
289     on fd creation, to avoid races.
290 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
291     (analysed by lekma).
292 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
293     signalfd.
294 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
295 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
296     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
297 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
298 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
299 root 1.142
300 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
301 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
302     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
303 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
304 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
305 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
306 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
307     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
308     state when using libev's signal handling.
309 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
310     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
311 root 1.132
312 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
313 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
314     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
315     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
316     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
317 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
318 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
319     about thread locking.
320 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
321     - add ev_loop_depth.
322 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
323     for new events.
324 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
325     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
326     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
327     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
328 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
329 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
330 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
331     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
332 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
333 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
334 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
335 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
336 root 1.115
337 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
338 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
339     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
340 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
341     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
342     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
343     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
344 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
345     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
346     Malek Hadj-Ali).
347 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
348 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
349 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
350 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
351 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
352 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
353 root 1.102
354 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
355     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
356     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
357 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
358     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
359     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
360     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
361     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
362    
363 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
364 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
365     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
366     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
367     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
368     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
369     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
370     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
371 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
372     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
373     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
374 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
375     should return fantasy port numbers.
376 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
377 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
378 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
379     a useless string instead of the expected version string
380     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
381 root 1.95
382 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
383 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
384 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
385 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
386     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
387 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
388     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
389     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
390 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
391     automatically.
392 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
393     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
394     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
395 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
396     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
397 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
398 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
399     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
400     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
401 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
402 root 1.87
403 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
404 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
405     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
406     "known to be good" list.
407 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
408     (analysed by Roger Pack).
409 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
410     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
411     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
412     with their C compiler.
413 root 1.83
414 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
415 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
416     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
417     ADD fails with EEXIST.
418 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
419 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
420 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
421     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
422 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
423     init functions.
424 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
425     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
426 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
427     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
428 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
429     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
430 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
431     do similar changes for event.c.
432 root 1.71
433 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
434 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
435     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
436 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
437 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
438 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
439 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
440     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
441 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
442 root 1.65
443 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
444     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
445     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
446 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
447 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
448 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
449 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
450 root 1.57
451 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
452 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
453 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
454 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
455     Matt Tolton).
456    
457 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
458 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
459     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
460 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
461     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
462 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
463 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
464     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
465     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
466     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
467     reported by Matt Tolton.
468 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
469 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
470 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
471     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
472     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
473 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
474     and some other default values.
475 root 1.45
476 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
477 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
478 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
479 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
480 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
481     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
482     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
483     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
484     2-based heaps.
485 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
486     memory accesses.
487     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
488 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
489 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
490     - improve ev_stat docs.
491     - add portability requirements section.
492 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
493 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
494 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
495     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
496 root 1.31
497 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
498     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
499 root 1.29
500 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
501 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
502     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
503 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
504     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
505     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
506 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
507     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
508     C99 or gcc are available.
509     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
510 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
511     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
512     (no such systems are known at this time).
513 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
514 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
515 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
516 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
517 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
518 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
519 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
520 root 1.20
521 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
522 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
523     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
524 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
525 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
526     flags of any outer loops anymore.
527 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
528 root 1.15
529 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
530 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
531 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
532     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
533 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
534 root 1.10
535 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
536 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
537 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
538     - slightly improved documentation.
539 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
540 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
541     watchers.
542 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
543 root 1.4
544 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
545 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
546 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
547     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
548     - change how include files are found.
549     - doc updates.
550     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
551    
552     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
553     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
554     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
555     - fix embed watchers.
556     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
557     - added exported Symbol tables.
558     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
559     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
560    
561     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
562     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
563    
564     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
565     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
566     (not relevant for perl).
567    
568     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
569    
570 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
571     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
572