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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 1.348 4.31
8     - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
9     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
10     (behaviour reported by Felipe Gsper).
11    
12     4.30 (EV only)
13 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
14     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
15 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
16     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
17 root 1.347
18 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
19     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
20     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
21 root 1.345
22 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
23 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
24     when loop is forked.
25 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
26     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
27 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
28 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
29 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
30 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
31     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
32 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
33 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
34     libecb counterparts.
35 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
36     - prepare io_uring integration.
37 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
38 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
39     reslution now all try to round up times.
40 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
41     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
42 root 1.334
43 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
44 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
45 root 1.329 limitations.
46 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
47 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
48 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
49     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
50     user error.
51     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
52     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
53 root 1.329
54     4.26 (EV only)
55     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
56 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
57 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
58 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
59 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
60     - minor code cleanups.
61 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
62 root 1.324
63 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
64     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
65 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
66 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
67 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
68 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
69 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
70     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
71 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
72 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
73     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
74 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
75 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
76     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
77 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
78 root 1.314
79 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
80     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
81     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
82     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
83    
84 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
85 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
86     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
87     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
88    
89 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
90 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
91     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
92     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
93     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
94     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
95     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
96     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
97 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
98 root 1.308
99 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
100 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
101 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
102 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
103 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
104 root 1.301
105 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
106 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
107 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
108     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
109     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
110 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
111     functionality.
112    
113 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
114 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
115     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
116 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
117 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
118 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
119     when we can't detect the signal set size.
120 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
121     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
122     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
123 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
124     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
125 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
126     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
127 root 1.288
128 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
129 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
130     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
131 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
132     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
133 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
134     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
135     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
136     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
137 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
138     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
139 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
140 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
141     be overfenced than underprotected.
142 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
143     still active).
144 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
145     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
146 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
147     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
148 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
149 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
150     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
151 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
152     in many cases.
153 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
154 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
155     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
156 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
157 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
158     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
159 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
160     Denis Bilenko).
161 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
162 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
163     the watcher base set (loop) method.
164 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
165 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
166 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
167 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
168     inotify-supporting filesystems.
169 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
170     versions ignore it before
171     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
172 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
173 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
174 root 1.253
175 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
176 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
177     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
178 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
179 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
180     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
181 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
182     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
183     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
184 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
185 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
186     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
187 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
188 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
189 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
190 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
191     as no external libraries are required.
192 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
193 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
194 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
195 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
196 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
197     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
198     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
199 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
200     static.
201 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
202     were empty.
203 root 1.225
204 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
205     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
206     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
207     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
208 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
209 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
210 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
211     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
212 root 1.221
213 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
214 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
215 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
216     backend, by generating events on our own.
217 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
218     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
219     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
220     than that).
221 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
222     #ifdef to test for them.
223 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
224     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
225     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
226 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
227 root 1.209
228 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
229 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
230 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
231     event.h on make install. grrr.
232     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
233 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
234 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
235 root 1.203
236 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
237 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
238 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
239     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
240 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
241 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
242 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
243     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
244 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
245 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
246 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
247     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
248 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
249     did not work properly.
250 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
251 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
252 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
253     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
254     even when there is nothing to set.
255 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
256 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
257     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
258 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
259     on freebsd...).
260 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
261 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
262     override it.
263 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
264     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
265 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
266     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
267     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
268 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
269     in an obscure case.
270 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
271     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
272     no sscanf dependency).
273 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
274 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
275 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
276 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
277 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
278 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
279 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
280 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
281 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
282 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
283     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
284 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
285     default arguments when compiled as C++.
286 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
287 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
288 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
289 root 1.157
290 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
291 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
292     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
293     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
294     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
295     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
296 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
297 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
298 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
299 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
300 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
301 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
302 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
303 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
304     (patch by Didier Spezia).
305 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
306     on fd creation, to avoid races.
307 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
308     (analysed by lekma).
309 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
310     signalfd.
311 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
312 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
313     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
314 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
315 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
316 root 1.142
317 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
318 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
319     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
320 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
321 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
322 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
323 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
324     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
325     state when using libev's signal handling.
326 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
327     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
328 root 1.132
329 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
330 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
331     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
332     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
333     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
334 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
335 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
336     about thread locking.
337 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
338     - add ev_loop_depth.
339 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
340     for new events.
341 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
342     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
343     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
344     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
345 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
346 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
347 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
348     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
349 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
350 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
351 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
352 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
353 root 1.115
354 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
355 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
356     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
357 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
358     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
359     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
360     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
361 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
362     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
363     Malek Hadj-Ali).
364 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
365 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
366 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
367 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
368 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
369 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
370 root 1.102
371 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
372     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
373     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
374 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
375     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
376     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
377     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
378     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
379    
380 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
381 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
382     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
383     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
384     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
385     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
386     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
387     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
388 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
389     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
390     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
391 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
392     should return fantasy port numbers.
393 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
394 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
395 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
396     a useless string instead of the expected version string
397     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
398 root 1.95
399 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
400 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
401 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
402 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
403     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
404 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
405     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
406     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
407 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
408     automatically.
409 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
410     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
411     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
412 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
413     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
414 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
415 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
416     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
417     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
418 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
419 root 1.87
420 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
421 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
422     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
423     "known to be good" list.
424 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
425     (analysed by Roger Pack).
426 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
427     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
428     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
429     with their C compiler.
430 root 1.83
431 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
432 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
433     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
434     ADD fails with EEXIST.
435 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
436 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
437 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
438     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
439 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
440     init functions.
441 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
442     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
443 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
444     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
445 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
446     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
447 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
448     do similar changes for event.c.
449 root 1.71
450 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
451 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
452     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
453 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
454 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
455 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
456 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
457     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
458 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
459 root 1.65
460 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
461     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
462     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
463 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
464 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
465 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
466 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
467 root 1.57
468 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
469 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
470 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
471 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
472     Matt Tolton).
473    
474 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
475 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
476     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
477 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
478     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
479 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
480 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
481     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
482     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
483     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
484     reported by Matt Tolton.
485 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
486 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
487 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
488     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
489     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
490 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
491     and some other default values.
492 root 1.45
493 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
494 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
495 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
496 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
497 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
498     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
499     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
500     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
501     2-based heaps.
502 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
503     memory accesses.
504     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
505 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
506 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
507     - improve ev_stat docs.
508     - add portability requirements section.
509 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
510 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
511 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
512     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
513 root 1.31
514 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
515     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
516 root 1.29
517 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
518 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
519     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
520 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
521     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
522     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
523 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
524     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
525     C99 or gcc are available.
526     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
527 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
528     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
529     (no such systems are known at this time).
530 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
531 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
532 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
533 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
534 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
535 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
536 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
537 root 1.20
538 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
539 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
540     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
541 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
542 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
543     flags of any outer loops anymore.
544 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
545 root 1.15
546 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
547 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
548 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
549     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
550 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
551 root 1.10
552 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
553 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
554 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
555     - slightly improved documentation.
556 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
557 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
558     watchers.
559 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
560 root 1.4
561 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
562 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
563 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
564     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
565     - change how include files are found.
566     - doc updates.
567     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
568    
569     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
570     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
571     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
572     - fix embed watchers.
573     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
574     - added exported Symbol tables.
575     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
576     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
577    
578     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
579     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
580    
581     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
582     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
583     (not relevant for perl).
584    
585     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
586    
587 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
588     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
589