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Revision: 1.349
Committed: Fri Dec 20 20:51:46 2019 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: EV-rel-4_31
Changes since 1.348: +5 -1 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 root 1.348 4.31
8 root 1.349 TODO: use TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET to call periodics_reschedule, maybe? (must)
9 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
10     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
11 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
12     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
13     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
14     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
15 root 1.348
16     4.30 (EV only)
17 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
18     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
19 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
20     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
21 root 1.347
22 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
23     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
24     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
25 root 1.345
26 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
27 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
28     when loop is forked.
29 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
30     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
31 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
32 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
33 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
34 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
35     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
36 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
37 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
38     libecb counterparts.
39 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
40     - prepare io_uring integration.
41 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
42 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
43     reslution now all try to round up times.
44 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
45     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
46 root 1.334
47 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
48 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
49 root 1.329 limitations.
50 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
51 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
52 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
53     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
54     user error.
55     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
56     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
57 root 1.329
58     4.26 (EV only)
59     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
60 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
61 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
62 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
63 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
64     - minor code cleanups.
65 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
66 root 1.324
67 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
68     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
69 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
70 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
71 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
72 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
73 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
74     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
75 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
76 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
77     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
78 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
79 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
80     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
81 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
82 root 1.314
83 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
84     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
85     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
86     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
87    
88 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
89 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
90     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
91     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
92    
93 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
94 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
95     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
96     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
97     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
98     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
99     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
100     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
101 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
102 root 1.308
103 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
104 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
105 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
106 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
107 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
108 root 1.301
109 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
110 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
111 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
112     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
113     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
114 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
115     functionality.
116    
117 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
118 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
119     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
120 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
121 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
122 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
123     when we can't detect the signal set size.
124 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
125     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
126     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
127 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
128     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
129 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
130     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
131 root 1.288
132 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
133 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
134     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
135 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
136     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
137 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
138     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
139     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
140     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
141 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
142     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
143 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
144 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
145     be overfenced than underprotected.
146 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
147     still active).
148 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
149     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
150 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
151     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
152 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
153 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
154     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
155 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
156     in many cases.
157 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
158 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
159     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
160 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
161 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
162     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
163 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
164     Denis Bilenko).
165 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
166 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
167     the watcher base set (loop) method.
168 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
169 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
170 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
171 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
172     inotify-supporting filesystems.
173 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
174     versions ignore it before
175     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
176 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
177 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
178 root 1.253
179 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
180 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
181     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
182 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
183 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
184     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
185 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
186     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
187     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
188 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
189 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
190     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
191 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
192 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
193 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
194 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
195     as no external libraries are required.
196 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
197 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
198 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
199 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
200 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
201     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
202     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
203 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
204     static.
205 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
206     were empty.
207 root 1.225
208 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
209     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
210     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
211     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
212 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
213 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
214 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
215     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
216 root 1.221
217 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
218 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
219 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
220     backend, by generating events on our own.
221 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
222     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
223     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
224     than that).
225 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
226     #ifdef to test for them.
227 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
228     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
229     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
230 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
231 root 1.209
232 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
233 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
234 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
235     event.h on make install. grrr.
236     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
237 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
238 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
239 root 1.203
240 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
241 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
242 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
243     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
244 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
245 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
246 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
247     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
248 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
249 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
250 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
251     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
252 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
253     did not work properly.
254 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
255 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
256 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
257     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
258     even when there is nothing to set.
259 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
260 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
261     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
262 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
263     on freebsd...).
264 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
265 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
266     override it.
267 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
268     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
269 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
270     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
271     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
272 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
273     in an obscure case.
274 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
275     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
276     no sscanf dependency).
277 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
278 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
279 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
280 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
281 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
282 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
283 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
284 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
285 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
286 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
287     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
288 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
289     default arguments when compiled as C++.
290 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
291 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
292 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
293 root 1.157
294 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
295 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
296     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
297     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
298     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
299     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
300 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
301 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
302 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
303 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
304 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
305 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
306 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
307 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
308     (patch by Didier Spezia).
309 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
310     on fd creation, to avoid races.
311 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
312     (analysed by lekma).
313 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
314     signalfd.
315 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
316 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
317     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
318 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
319 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
320 root 1.142
321 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
322 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
323     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
324 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
325 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
326 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
327 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
328     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
329     state when using libev's signal handling.
330 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
331     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
332 root 1.132
333 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
334 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
335     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
336     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
337     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
338 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
339 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
340     about thread locking.
341 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
342     - add ev_loop_depth.
343 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
344     for new events.
345 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
346     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
347     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
348     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
349 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
350 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
351 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
352     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
353 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
354 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
355 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
356 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
357 root 1.115
358 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
359 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
360     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
361 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
362     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
363     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
364     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
365 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
366     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
367     Malek Hadj-Ali).
368 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
369 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
370 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
371 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
372 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
373 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
374 root 1.102
375 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
376     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
377     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
378 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
379     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
380     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
381     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
382     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
383    
384 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
385 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
386     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
387     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
388     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
389     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
390     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
391     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
392 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
393     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
394     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
395 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
396     should return fantasy port numbers.
397 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
398 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
399 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
400     a useless string instead of the expected version string
401     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
402 root 1.95
403 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
404 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
405 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
406 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
407     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
408 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
409     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
410     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
411 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
412     automatically.
413 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
414     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
415     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
416 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
417     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
418 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
419 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
420     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
421     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
422 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
423 root 1.87
424 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
425 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
426     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
427     "known to be good" list.
428 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
429     (analysed by Roger Pack).
430 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
431     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
432     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
433     with their C compiler.
434 root 1.83
435 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
436 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
437     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
438     ADD fails with EEXIST.
439 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
440 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
441 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
442     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
443 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
444     init functions.
445 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
446     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
447 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
448     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
449 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
450     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
451 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
452     do similar changes for event.c.
453 root 1.71
454 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
455 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
456     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
457 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
458 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
459 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
460 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
461     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
462 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
463 root 1.65
464 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
465     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
466     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
467 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
468 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
469 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
470 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
471 root 1.57
472 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
473 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
474 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
475 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
476     Matt Tolton).
477    
478 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
479 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
480     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
481 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
482     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
483 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
484 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
485     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
486     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
487     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
488     reported by Matt Tolton.
489 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
490 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
491 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
492     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
493     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
494 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
495     and some other default values.
496 root 1.45
497 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
498 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
499 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
500 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
501 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
502     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
503     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
504     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
505     2-based heaps.
506 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
507     memory accesses.
508     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
509 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
510 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
511     - improve ev_stat docs.
512     - add portability requirements section.
513 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
514 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
515 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
516     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
517 root 1.31
518 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
519     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
520 root 1.29
521 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
522 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
523     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
524 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
525     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
526     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
527 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
528     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
529     C99 or gcc are available.
530     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
531 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
532     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
533     (no such systems are known at this time).
534 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
535 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
536 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
537 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
538 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
539 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
540 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
541 root 1.20
542 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
543 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
544     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
545 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
546 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
547     flags of any outer loops anymore.
548 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
549 root 1.15
550 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
551 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
552 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
553     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
554 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
555 root 1.10
556 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
557 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
558 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
559     - slightly improved documentation.
560 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
561 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
562     watchers.
563 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
564 root 1.4
565 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
566 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
567 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
568     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
569     - change how include files are found.
570     - doc updates.
571     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
572    
573     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
574     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
575     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
576     - fix embed watchers.
577     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
578     - added exported Symbol tables.
579     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
580     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
581    
582     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
583     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
584    
585     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
586     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
587     (not relevant for perl).
588    
589     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
590    
591 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
592     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
593