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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 1.351 - the new timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of ther signal
7     fd watcher, which is usuallys harmless unless signal fds are
8 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
9 root 1.351
10 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
11 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
12     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
13 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
14     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
15     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
16     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
17 root 1.348
18     4.30 (EV only)
19 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
20     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
21 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
22     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
23 root 1.347
24 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
25     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
26     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
27 root 1.345
28 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
29 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
30     when loop is forked.
31 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
32     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
33 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
34 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
35 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
36 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
37     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
38 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
39 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
40     libecb counterparts.
41 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
42     - prepare io_uring integration.
43 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
44 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
45     reslution now all try to round up times.
46 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
47     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
48 root 1.334
49 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
50 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
51 root 1.329 limitations.
52 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
53 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
54 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
55     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
56     user error.
57     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
58     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
59 root 1.329
60     4.26 (EV only)
61     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
62 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
63 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
64 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
65 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
66     - minor code cleanups.
67 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
68 root 1.324
69 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
70     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
71 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
72 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
73 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
74 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
75 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
76     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
77 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
78 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
79     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
80 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
81 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
82     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
83 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
84 root 1.314
85 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
86     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
87     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
88     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
89    
90 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
91 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
92     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
93     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
94    
95 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
96 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
97     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
98     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
99     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
100     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
101     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
102     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
103 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
104 root 1.308
105 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
106 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
107 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
108 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
109 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
110 root 1.301
111 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
112 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
113 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
114     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
115     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
116 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
117     functionality.
118    
119 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
120 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
121     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
122 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
123 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
124 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
125     when we can't detect the signal set size.
126 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
127     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
128     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
129 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
130     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
131 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
132     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
133 root 1.288
134 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
135 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
136     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
137 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
138     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
139 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
140     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
141     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
142     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
143 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
144     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
145 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
146 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
147     be overfenced than underprotected.
148 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
149     still active).
150 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
151     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
152 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
153     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
154 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
155 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
156     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
157 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
158     in many cases.
159 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
160 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
161     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
162 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
163 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
164     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
165 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
166     Denis Bilenko).
167 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
168 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
169     the watcher base set (loop) method.
170 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
171 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
172 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
173 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
174     inotify-supporting filesystems.
175 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
176     versions ignore it before
177     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
178 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
179 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
180 root 1.253
181 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
182 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
183     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
184 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
185 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
186     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
187 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
188     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
189     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
190 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
191 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
192     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
193 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
194 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
195 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
196 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
197     as no external libraries are required.
198 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
199 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
200 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
201 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
202 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
203     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
204     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
205 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
206     static.
207 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
208     were empty.
209 root 1.225
210 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
211     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
212     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
213     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
214 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
215 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
216 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
217     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
218 root 1.221
219 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
220 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
221 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
222     backend, by generating events on our own.
223 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
224     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
225     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
226     than that).
227 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
228     #ifdef to test for them.
229 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
230     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
231     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
232 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
233 root 1.209
234 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
235 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
236 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
237     event.h on make install. grrr.
238     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
239 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
240 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
241 root 1.203
242 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
243 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
244 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
245     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
246 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
247 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
248 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
249     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
250 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
251 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
252 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
253     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
254 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
255     did not work properly.
256 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
257 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
258 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
259     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
260     even when there is nothing to set.
261 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
262 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
263     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
264 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
265     on freebsd...).
266 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
267 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
268     override it.
269 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
270     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
271 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
272     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
273     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
274 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
275     in an obscure case.
276 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
277     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
278     no sscanf dependency).
279 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
280 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
281 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
282 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
283 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
284 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
285 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
286 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
287 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
288 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
289     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
290 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
291     default arguments when compiled as C++.
292 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
293 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
294 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
295 root 1.157
296 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
297 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
298     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
299     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
300     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
301     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
302 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
303 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
304 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
305 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
306 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
307 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
308 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
309 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
310     (patch by Didier Spezia).
311 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
312     on fd creation, to avoid races.
313 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
314     (analysed by lekma).
315 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
316     signalfd.
317 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
318 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
319     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
320 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
321 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
322 root 1.142
323 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
324 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
325     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
326 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
327 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
328 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
329 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
330     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
331     state when using libev's signal handling.
332 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
333     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
334 root 1.132
335 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
336 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
337     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
338     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
339     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
340 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
341 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
342     about thread locking.
343 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
344     - add ev_loop_depth.
345 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
346     for new events.
347 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
348     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
349     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
350     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
351 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
352 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
353 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
354     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
355 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
356 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
357 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
358 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
359 root 1.115
360 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
361 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
362     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
363 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
364     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
365     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
366     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
367 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
368     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
369     Malek Hadj-Ali).
370 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
371 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
372 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
373 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
374 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
375 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
376 root 1.102
377 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
378     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
379     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
380 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
381     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
382     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
383     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
384     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
385    
386 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
387 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
388     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
389     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
390     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
391     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
392     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
393     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
394 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
395     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
396     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
397 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
398     should return fantasy port numbers.
399 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
400 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
401 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
402     a useless string instead of the expected version string
403     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
404 root 1.95
405 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
406 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
407 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
408 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
409     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
410 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
411     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
412     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
413 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
414     automatically.
415 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
416     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
417     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
418 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
419     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
420 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
421 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
422     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
423     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
424 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
425 root 1.87
426 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
427 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
428     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
429     "known to be good" list.
430 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
431     (analysed by Roger Pack).
432 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
433     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
434     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
435     with their C compiler.
436 root 1.83
437 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
438 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
439     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
440     ADD fails with EEXIST.
441 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
442 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
443 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
444     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
445 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
446     init functions.
447 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
448     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
449 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
450     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
451 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
452     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
453 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
454     do similar changes for event.c.
455 root 1.71
456 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
457 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
458     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
459 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
460 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
461 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
462 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
463     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
464 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
465 root 1.65
466 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
467     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
468     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
469 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
470 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
471 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
472 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
473 root 1.57
474 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
475 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
476 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
477 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
478     Matt Tolton).
479    
480 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
481 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
482     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
483 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
484     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
485 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
486 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
487     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
488     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
489     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
490     reported by Matt Tolton.
491 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
492 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
493 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
494     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
495     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
496 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
497     and some other default values.
498 root 1.45
499 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
500 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
501 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
502 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
503 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
504     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
505     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
506     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
507     2-based heaps.
508 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
509     memory accesses.
510     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
511 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
512 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
513     - improve ev_stat docs.
514     - add portability requirements section.
515 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
516 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
517 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
518     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
519 root 1.31
520 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
521     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
522 root 1.29
523 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
524 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
525     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
526 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
527     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
528     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
529 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
530     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
531     C99 or gcc are available.
532     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
533 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
534     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
535     (no such systems are known at this time).
536 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
537 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
538 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
539 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
540 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
541 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
542 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
543 root 1.20
544 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
545 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
546     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
547 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
548 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
549     flags of any outer loops anymore.
550 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
551 root 1.15
552 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
553 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
554 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
555     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
556 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
557 root 1.10
558 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
559 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
560 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
561     - slightly improved documentation.
562 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
563 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
564     watchers.
565 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
566 root 1.4
567 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
568 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
569 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
570     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
571     - change how include files are found.
572     - doc updates.
573     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
574    
575     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
576     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
577     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
578     - fix embed watchers.
579     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
580     - added exported Symbol tables.
581     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
582     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
583    
584     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
585     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
586    
587     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
588     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
589     (not relevant for perl).
590    
591     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
592    
593 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
594     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
595