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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 1.344
7 root 1.345 4.29
8     - (libev) add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection,
9     the latter of which should disable io_uring compilation
10     on old systems.
11    
12 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
13 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
14     when loop is forked.
15 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
16     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
17 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
18 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
19 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
20 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
21     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
22 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
23 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
24     libecb counterparts.
25 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
26     - prepare io_uring integration.
27 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
28 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
29     reslution now all try to round up times.
30 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
31     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
32 root 1.334
33 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
34 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
35 root 1.329 limitations.
36 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
37 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
38 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
39     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
40     user error.
41     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
42     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
43 root 1.329
44     4.26 (EV only)
45     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
46 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
47 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
48 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
49 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
50     - minor code cleanups.
51 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
52 root 1.324
53 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
54     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
55 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
56 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
57 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
58 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
59 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
60     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
61 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
62 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
63     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
64 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
65 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
66     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
67 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
68 root 1.314
69 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
70     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
71     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
72     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
73    
74 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
75 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
76     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
77     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
78    
79 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
80 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
81     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
82     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
83     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
84     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
85     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
86     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
87 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
88 root 1.308
89 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
90 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
91 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
92 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
93 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
94 root 1.301
95 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
96 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
97 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
98     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
99     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
100 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
101     functionality.
102    
103 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
104 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
105     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
106 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
107 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
108 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
109     when we can't detect the signal set size.
110 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
111     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
112     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
113 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
114     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
115 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
116     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
117 root 1.288
118 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
119 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
120     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
121 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
122     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
123 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
124     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
125     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
126     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
127 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
128     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
129 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
130 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
131     be overfenced than underprotected.
132 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
133     still active).
134 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
135     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
136 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
137     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
138 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
139 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
140     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
141 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
142     in many cases.
143 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
144 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
145     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
146 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
147 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
148     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
149 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
150     Denis Bilenko).
151 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
152 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
153     the watcher base set (loop) method.
154 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
155 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
156 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
157 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
158     inotify-supporting filesystems.
159 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
160     versions ignore it before
161     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
162 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
163 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
164 root 1.253
165 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
166 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
167     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
168 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
169 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
170     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
171 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
172     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
173     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
174 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
175 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
176     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
177 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
178 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
179 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
180 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
181     as no external libraries are required.
182 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
183 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
184 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
185 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
186 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
187     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
188     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
189 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
190     static.
191 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
192     were empty.
193 root 1.225
194 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
195     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
196     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
197     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
198 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
199 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
200 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
201     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
202 root 1.221
203 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
204 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
205 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
206     backend, by generating events on our own.
207 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
208     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
209     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
210     than that).
211 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
212     #ifdef to test for them.
213 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
214     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
215     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
216 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
217 root 1.209
218 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
219 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
220 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
221     event.h on make install. grrr.
222     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
223 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
224 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
225 root 1.203
226 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
227 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
228 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
229     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
230 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
231 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
232 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
233     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
234 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
235 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
236 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
237     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
238 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
239     did not work properly.
240 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
241 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
242 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
243     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
244     even when there is nothing to set.
245 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
246 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
247     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
248 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
249     on freebsd...).
250 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
251 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
252     override it.
253 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
254     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
255 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
256     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
257     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
258 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
259     in an obscure case.
260 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
261     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
262     no sscanf dependency).
263 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
264 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
265 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
266 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
267 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
268 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
269 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
270 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
271 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
272 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
273     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
274 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
275     default arguments when compiled as C++.
276 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
277 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
278 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
279 root 1.157
280 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
281 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
282     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
283     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
284     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
285     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
286 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
287 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
288 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
289 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
290 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
291 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
292 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
293 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
294     (patch by Didier Spezia).
295 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
296     on fd creation, to avoid races.
297 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
298     (analysed by lekma).
299 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
300     signalfd.
301 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
302 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
303     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
304 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
305 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
306 root 1.142
307 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
308 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
309     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
310 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
311 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
312 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
313 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
314     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
315     state when using libev's signal handling.
316 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
317     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
318 root 1.132
319 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
320 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
321     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
322     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
323     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
324 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
325 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
326     about thread locking.
327 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
328     - add ev_loop_depth.
329 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
330     for new events.
331 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
332     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
333     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
334     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
335 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
336 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
337 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
338     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
339 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
340 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
341 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
342 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
343 root 1.115
344 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
345 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
346     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
347 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
348     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
349     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
350     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
351 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
352     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
353     Malek Hadj-Ali).
354 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
355 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
356 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
357 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
358 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
359 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
360 root 1.102
361 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
362     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
363     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
364 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
365     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
366     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
367     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
368     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
369    
370 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
371 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
372     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
373     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
374     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
375     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
376     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
377     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
378 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
379     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
380     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
381 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
382     should return fantasy port numbers.
383 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
384 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
385 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
386     a useless string instead of the expected version string
387     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
388 root 1.95
389 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
390 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
391 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
392 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
393     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
394 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
395     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
396     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
397 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
398     automatically.
399 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
400     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
401     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
402 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
403     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
404 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
405 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
406     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
407     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
408 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
409 root 1.87
410 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
411 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
412     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
413     "known to be good" list.
414 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
415     (analysed by Roger Pack).
416 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
417     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
418     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
419     with their C compiler.
420 root 1.83
421 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
422 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
423     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
424     ADD fails with EEXIST.
425 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
426 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
427 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
428     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
429 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
430     init functions.
431 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
432     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
433 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
434     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
435 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
436     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
437 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
438     do similar changes for event.c.
439 root 1.71
440 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
441 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
442     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
443 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
444 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
445 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
446 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
447     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
448 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
449 root 1.65
450 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
451     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
452     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
453 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
454 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
455 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
456 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
457 root 1.57
458 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
459 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
460 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
461 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
462     Matt Tolton).
463    
464 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
465 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
466     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
467 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
468     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
469 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
470 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
471     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
472     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
473     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
474     reported by Matt Tolton.
475 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
476 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
477 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
478     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
479     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
480 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
481     and some other default values.
482 root 1.45
483 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
484 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
485 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
486 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
487 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
488     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
489     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
490     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
491     2-based heaps.
492 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
493     memory accesses.
494     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
495 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
496 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
497     - improve ev_stat docs.
498     - add portability requirements section.
499 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
500 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
501 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
502     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
503 root 1.31
504 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
505     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
506 root 1.29
507 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
508 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
509     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
510 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
511     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
512     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
513 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
514     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
515     C99 or gcc are available.
516     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
517 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
518     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
519     (no such systems are known at this time).
520 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
521 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
522 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
523 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
524 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
525 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
526 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
527 root 1.20
528 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
529 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
530     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
531 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
532 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
533     flags of any outer loops anymore.
534 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
535 root 1.15
536 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
537 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
538 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
539     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
540 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
541 root 1.10
542 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
543 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
544 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
545     - slightly improved documentation.
546 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
547 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
548     watchers.
549 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
550 root 1.4
551 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
552 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
553 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
554     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
555     - change how include files are found.
556     - doc updates.
557     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
558    
559     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
560     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
561     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
562     - fix embed watchers.
563     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
564     - added exported Symbol tables.
565     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
566     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
567    
568     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
569     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
570    
571     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
572     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
573     (not relevant for perl).
574    
575     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
576    
577 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
578     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
579