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Revision: 1.344
Committed: Tue Nov 19 13:09:00 2019 UTC (4 years, 6 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: EV-rel-4_28
Changes since 1.343: +2 -0 lines
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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 1.342 TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
6 root 1.344
7     4.28 (EV only)
8 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
9     when loop is forked.
10 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
11     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
12 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
13 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
14 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
15 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
16     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
17 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
18 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
19     libecb counterparts.
20 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
21     - prepare io_uring integration.
22 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
23 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
24     reslution now all try to round up times.
25 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
26     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
27 root 1.334
28 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
29 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
30 root 1.329 limitations.
31 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
32 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
33 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
34     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
35     user error.
36     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
37     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
38 root 1.329
39     4.26 (EV only)
40     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
41 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
42 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
43 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
44 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
45     - minor code cleanups.
46 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
47 root 1.324
48 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
49     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
50 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
51 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
52 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
53 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
54 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
55     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
56 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
57 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
58     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
59 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
60 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
61     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
62 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
63 root 1.314
64 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
65     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
66     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
67     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
68    
69 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
70 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
71     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
72     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
73    
74 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
75 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
76     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
77     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
78     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
79     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
80     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
81     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
82 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
83 root 1.308
84 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
85 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
86 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
87 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
88 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
89 root 1.301
90 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
91 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
92 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
93     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
94     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
95 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
96     functionality.
97    
98 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
99 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
100     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
101 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
102 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
103 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
104     when we can't detect the signal set size.
105 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
106     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
107     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
108 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
109     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
110 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
111     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
112 root 1.288
113 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
114 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
115     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
116 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
117     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
118 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
119     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
120     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
121     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
122 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
123     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
124 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
125 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
126     be overfenced than underprotected.
127 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
128     still active).
129 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
130     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
131 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
132     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
133 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
134 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
135     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
136 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
137     in many cases.
138 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
139 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
140     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
141 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
142 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
143     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
144 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
145     Denis Bilenko).
146 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
147 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
148     the watcher base set (loop) method.
149 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
150 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
151 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
152 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
153     inotify-supporting filesystems.
154 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
155     versions ignore it before
156     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
157 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
158 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
159 root 1.253
160 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
161 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
162     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
163 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
164 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
165     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
166 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
167     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
168     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
169 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
170 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
171     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
172 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
173 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
174 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
175 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
176     as no external libraries are required.
177 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
178 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
179 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
180 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
181 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
182     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
183     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
184 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
185     static.
186 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
187     were empty.
188 root 1.225
189 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
190     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
191     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
192     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
193 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
194 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
195 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
196     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
197 root 1.221
198 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
199 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
200 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
201     backend, by generating events on our own.
202 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
203     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
204     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
205     than that).
206 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
207     #ifdef to test for them.
208 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
209     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
210     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
211 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
212 root 1.209
213 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
214 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
215 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
216     event.h on make install. grrr.
217     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
218 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
219 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
220 root 1.203
221 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
222 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
223 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
224     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
225 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
226 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
227 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
228     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
229 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
230 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
231 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
232     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
233 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
234     did not work properly.
235 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
236 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
237 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
238     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
239     even when there is nothing to set.
240 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
241 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
242     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
243 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
244     on freebsd...).
245 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
246 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
247     override it.
248 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
249     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
250 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
251     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
252     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
253 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
254     in an obscure case.
255 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
256     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
257     no sscanf dependency).
258 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
259 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
260 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
261 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
262 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
263 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
264 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
265 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
266 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
267 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
268     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
269 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
270     default arguments when compiled as C++.
271 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
272 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
273 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
274 root 1.157
275 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
276 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
277     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
278     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
279     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
280     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
281 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
282 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
283 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
284 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
285 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
286 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
287 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
288 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
289     (patch by Didier Spezia).
290 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
291     on fd creation, to avoid races.
292 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
293     (analysed by lekma).
294 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
295     signalfd.
296 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
297 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
298     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
299 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
300 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
301 root 1.142
302 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
303 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
304     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
305 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
306 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
307 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
308 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
309     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
310     state when using libev's signal handling.
311 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
312     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
313 root 1.132
314 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
315 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
316     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
317     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
318     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
319 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
320 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
321     about thread locking.
322 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
323     - add ev_loop_depth.
324 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
325     for new events.
326 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
327     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
328     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
329     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
330 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
331 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
332 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
333     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
334 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
335 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
336 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
337 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
338 root 1.115
339 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
340 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
341     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
342 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
343     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
344     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
345     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
346 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
347     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
348     Malek Hadj-Ali).
349 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
350 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
351 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
352 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
353 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
354 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
355 root 1.102
356 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
357     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
358     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
359 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
360     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
361     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
362     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
363     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
364    
365 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
366 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
367     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
368     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
369     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
370     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
371     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
372     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
373 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
374     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
375     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
376 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
377     should return fantasy port numbers.
378 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
379 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
380 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
381     a useless string instead of the expected version string
382     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
383 root 1.95
384 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
385 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
386 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
387 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
388     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
389 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
390     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
391     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
392 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
393     automatically.
394 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
395     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
396     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
397 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
398     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
399 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
400 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
401     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
402     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
403 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
404 root 1.87
405 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
406 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
407     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
408     "known to be good" list.
409 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
410     (analysed by Roger Pack).
411 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
412     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
413     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
414     with their C compiler.
415 root 1.83
416 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
417 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
418     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
419     ADD fails with EEXIST.
420 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
421 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
422 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
423     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
424 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
425     init functions.
426 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
427     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
428 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
429     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
430 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
431     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
432 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
433     do similar changes for event.c.
434 root 1.71
435 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
436 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
437     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
438 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
439 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
440 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
441 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
442     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
443 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
444 root 1.65
445 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
446     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
447     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
448 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
449 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
450 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
451 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
452 root 1.57
453 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
454 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
455 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
456 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
457     Matt Tolton).
458    
459 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
460 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
461     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
462 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
463     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
464 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
465 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
466     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
467     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
468     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
469     reported by Matt Tolton.
470 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
471 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
472 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
473     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
474     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
475 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
476     and some other default values.
477 root 1.45
478 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
479 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
480 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
481 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
482 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
483     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
484     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
485     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
486     2-based heaps.
487 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
488     memory accesses.
489     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
490 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
491 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
492     - improve ev_stat docs.
493     - add portability requirements section.
494 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
495 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
496 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
497     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
498 root 1.31
499 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
500     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
501 root 1.29
502 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
503 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
504     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
505 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
506     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
507     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
508 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
509     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
510     C99 or gcc are available.
511     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
512 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
513     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
514     (no such systems are known at this time).
515 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
516 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
517 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
518 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
519 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
520 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
521 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
522 root 1.20
523 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
524 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
525     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
526 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
527 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
528     flags of any outer loops anymore.
529 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
530 root 1.15
531 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
532 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
533 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
534     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
535 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
536 root 1.10
537 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
538 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
539 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
540     - slightly improved documentation.
541 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
542 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
543     watchers.
544 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
545 root 1.4
546 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
547 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
548 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
549     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
550     - change how include files are found.
551     - doc updates.
552     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
553    
554     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
555     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
556     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
557     - fix embed watchers.
558     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
559     - added exported Symbol tables.
560     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
561     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
562    
563     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
564     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
565    
566     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
567     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
568     (not relevant for perl).
569    
570     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
571    
572 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
573     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
574