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Revision: 1.350
Committed: Sat Dec 21 16:11:51 2019 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_31
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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 1.342 TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
5 root 1.344
6 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
7 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
8     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
9 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
10     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
11     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
12     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
13 root 1.348
14     4.30 (EV only)
15 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
16     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
17 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
18     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
19 root 1.347
20 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
21     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
22     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
23 root 1.345
24 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
25 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
26     when loop is forked.
27 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
28     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
29 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
30 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
31 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
32 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
33     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
34 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
35 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
36     libecb counterparts.
37 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
38     - prepare io_uring integration.
39 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
40 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
41     reslution now all try to round up times.
42 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
43     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
44 root 1.334
45 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
46 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
47 root 1.329 limitations.
48 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
49 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
50 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
51     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
52     user error.
53     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
54     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
55 root 1.329
56     4.26 (EV only)
57     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
58 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
59 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
60 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
61 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
62     - minor code cleanups.
63 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
64 root 1.324
65 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
66     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
67 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
68 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
69 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
70 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
71 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
72     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
73 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
74 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
75     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
76 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
77 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
78     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
79 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
80 root 1.314
81 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
82     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
83     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
84     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
85    
86 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
87 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
88     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
89     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
90    
91 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
92 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
93     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
94     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
95     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
96     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
97     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
98     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
99 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
100 root 1.308
101 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
102 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
103 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
104 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
105 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
106 root 1.301
107 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
108 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
109 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
110     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
111     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
112 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
113     functionality.
114    
115 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
116 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
117     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
118 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
119 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
120 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
121     when we can't detect the signal set size.
122 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
123     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
124     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
125 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
126     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
127 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
128     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
129 root 1.288
130 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
131 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
132     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
133 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
134     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
135 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
136     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
137     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
138     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
139 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
140     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
141 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
142 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
143     be overfenced than underprotected.
144 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
145     still active).
146 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
147     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
148 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
149     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
150 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
151 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
152     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
153 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
154     in many cases.
155 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
156 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
157     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
158 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
159 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
160     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
161 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
162     Denis Bilenko).
163 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
164 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
165     the watcher base set (loop) method.
166 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
167 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
168 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
169 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
170     inotify-supporting filesystems.
171 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
172     versions ignore it before
173     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
174 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
175 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
176 root 1.253
177 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
178 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
179     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
180 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
181 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
182     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
183 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
184     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
185     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
186 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
187 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
188     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
189 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
190 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
191 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
192 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
193     as no external libraries are required.
194 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
195 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
196 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
197 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
198 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
199     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
200     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
201 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
202     static.
203 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
204     were empty.
205 root 1.225
206 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
207     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
208     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
209     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
210 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
211 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
212 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
213     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
214 root 1.221
215 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
216 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
217 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
218     backend, by generating events on our own.
219 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
220     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
221     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
222     than that).
223 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
224     #ifdef to test for them.
225 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
226     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
227     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
228 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
229 root 1.209
230 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
231 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
232 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
233     event.h on make install. grrr.
234     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
235 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
236 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
237 root 1.203
238 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
239 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
240 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
241     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
242 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
243 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
244 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
245     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
246 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
247 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
248 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
249     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
250 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
251     did not work properly.
252 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
253 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
254 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
255     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
256     even when there is nothing to set.
257 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
258 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
259     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
260 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
261     on freebsd...).
262 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
263 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
264     override it.
265 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
266     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
267 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
268     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
269     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
270 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
271     in an obscure case.
272 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
273     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
274     no sscanf dependency).
275 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
276 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
277 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
278 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
279 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
280 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
281 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
282 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
283 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
284 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
285     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
286 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
287     default arguments when compiled as C++.
288 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
289 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
290 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
291 root 1.157
292 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
293 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
294     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
295     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
296     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
297     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
298 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
299 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
300 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
301 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
302 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
303 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
304 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
305 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
306     (patch by Didier Spezia).
307 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
308     on fd creation, to avoid races.
309 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
310     (analysed by lekma).
311 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
312     signalfd.
313 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
314 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
315     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
316 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
317 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
318 root 1.142
319 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
320 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
321     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
322 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
323 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
324 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
325 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
326     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
327     state when using libev's signal handling.
328 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
329     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
330 root 1.132
331 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
332 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
333     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
334     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
335     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
336 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
337 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
338     about thread locking.
339 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
340     - add ev_loop_depth.
341 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
342     for new events.
343 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
344     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
345     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
346     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
347 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
348 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
349 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
350     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
351 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
352 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
353 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
354 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
355 root 1.115
356 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
357 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
358     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
359 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
360     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
361     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
362     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
363 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
364     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
365     Malek Hadj-Ali).
366 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
367 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
368 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
369 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
370 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
371 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
372 root 1.102
373 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
374     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
375     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
376 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
377     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
378     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
379     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
380     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
381    
382 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
383 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
384     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
385     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
386     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
387     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
388     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
389     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
390 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
391     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
392     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
393 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
394     should return fantasy port numbers.
395 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
396 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
397 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
398     a useless string instead of the expected version string
399     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
400 root 1.95
401 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
402 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
403 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
404 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
405     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
406 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
407     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
408     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
409 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
410     automatically.
411 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
412     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
413     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
414 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
415     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
416 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
417 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
418     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
419     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
420 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
421 root 1.87
422 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
423 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
424     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
425     "known to be good" list.
426 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
427     (analysed by Roger Pack).
428 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
429     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
430     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
431     with their C compiler.
432 root 1.83
433 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
434 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
435     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
436     ADD fails with EEXIST.
437 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
438 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
439 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
440     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
441 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
442     init functions.
443 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
444     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
445 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
446     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
447 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
448     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
449 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
450     do similar changes for event.c.
451 root 1.71
452 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
453 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
454     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
455 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
456 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
457 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
458 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
459     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
460 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
461 root 1.65
462 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
463     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
464     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
465 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
466 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
467 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
468 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
469 root 1.57
470 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
471 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
472 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
473 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
474     Matt Tolton).
475    
476 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
477 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
478     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
479 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
480     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
481 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
482 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
483     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
484     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
485     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
486     reported by Matt Tolton.
487 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
488 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
489 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
490     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
491     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
492 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
493     and some other default values.
494 root 1.45
495 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
496 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
497 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
498 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
499 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
500     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
501     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
502     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
503     2-based heaps.
504 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
505     memory accesses.
506     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
507 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
508 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
509     - improve ev_stat docs.
510     - add portability requirements section.
511 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
512 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
513 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
514     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
515 root 1.31
516 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
517     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
518 root 1.29
519 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
520 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
521     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
522 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
523     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
524     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
525 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
526     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
527     C99 or gcc are available.
528     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
529 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
530     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
531     (no such systems are known at this time).
532 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
533 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
534 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
535 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
536 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
537 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
538 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
539 root 1.20
540 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
541 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
542     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
543 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
544 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
545     flags of any outer loops anymore.
546 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
547 root 1.15
548 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
549 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
550 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
551     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
552 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
553 root 1.10
554 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
555 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
556 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
557     - slightly improved documentation.
558 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
559 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
560     watchers.
561 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
562 root 1.4
563 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
564 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
565 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
566     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
567     - change how include files are found.
568     - doc updates.
569     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
570    
571     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
572     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
573     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
574     - fix embed watchers.
575     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
576     - added exported Symbol tables.
577     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
578     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
579    
580     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
581     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
582    
583     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
584     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
585     (not relevant for perl).
586    
587     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
588    
589 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
590     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
591