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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 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
10     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
11 root 1.351
12 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
13 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
14     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
15 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
16     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
17     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
18     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
19 root 1.348
20     4.30 (EV only)
21 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
22     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
23 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
24     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
25 root 1.347
26 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
27     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
28     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
29 root 1.345
30 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
31 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
32     when loop is forked.
33 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
34     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
35 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
36 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
37 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
38 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
39     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
40 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
41 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
42     libecb counterparts.
43 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
44     - prepare io_uring integration.
45 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
46 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
47     reslution now all try to round up times.
48 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
49     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
50 root 1.334
51 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
52 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
53 root 1.329 limitations.
54 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
55 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
56 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
57     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
58     user error.
59     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
60     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
61 root 1.329
62     4.26 (EV only)
63     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
64 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
65 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
66 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
67 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
68     - minor code cleanups.
69 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
70 root 1.324
71 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
72     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
73 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
74 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
75 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
76 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
77 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
78     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
79 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
80 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
81     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
82 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
83 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
84     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
85 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
86 root 1.314
87 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
88     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
89     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
90     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
91    
92 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
93 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
94     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
95     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
96    
97 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
98 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
99     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
100     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
101     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
102     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
103     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
104     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
105 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
106 root 1.308
107 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
108 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
109 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
110 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
111 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
112 root 1.301
113 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
114 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
115 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
116     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
117     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
118 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
119     functionality.
120    
121 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
122 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
123     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
124 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
125 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
126 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
127     when we can't detect the signal set size.
128 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
129     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
130     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
131 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
132     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
133 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
134     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
135 root 1.288
136 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
137 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
138     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
139 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
140     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
141 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
142     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
143     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
144     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
145 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
146     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
147 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
148 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
149     be overfenced than underprotected.
150 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
151     still active).
152 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
153     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
154 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
155     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
156 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
157 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
158     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
159 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
160     in many cases.
161 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
162 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
163     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
164 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
165 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
166     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
167 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
168     Denis Bilenko).
169 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
170 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
171     the watcher base set (loop) method.
172 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
173 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
174 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
175 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
176     inotify-supporting filesystems.
177 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
178     versions ignore it before
179     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
180 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
181 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
182 root 1.253
183 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
184 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
185     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
186 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
187 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
188     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
189 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
190     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
191     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
192 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
193 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
194     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
195 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
196 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
197 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
198 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
199     as no external libraries are required.
200 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
201 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
202 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
203 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
204 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
205     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
206     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
207 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
208     static.
209 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
210     were empty.
211 root 1.225
212 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
213     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
214     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
215     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
216 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
217 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
218 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
219     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
220 root 1.221
221 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
222 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
223 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
224     backend, by generating events on our own.
225 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
226     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
227     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
228     than that).
229 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
230     #ifdef to test for them.
231 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
232     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
233     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
234 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
235 root 1.209
236 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
237 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
238 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
239     event.h on make install. grrr.
240     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
241 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
242 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
243 root 1.203
244 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
245 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
246 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
247     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
248 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
249 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
250 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
251     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
252 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
253 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
254 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
255     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
256 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
257     did not work properly.
258 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
259 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
260 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
261     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
262     even when there is nothing to set.
263 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
264 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
265     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
266 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
267     on freebsd...).
268 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
269 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
270     override it.
271 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
272     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
273 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
274     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
275     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
276 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
277     in an obscure case.
278 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
279     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
280     no sscanf dependency).
281 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
282 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
283 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
284 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
285 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
286 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
287 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
288 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
289 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
290 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
291     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
292 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
293     default arguments when compiled as C++.
294 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
295 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
296 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
297 root 1.157
298 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
299 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
300     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
301     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
302     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
303     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
304 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
305 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
306 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
307 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
308 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
309 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
310 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
311 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
312     (patch by Didier Spezia).
313 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
314     on fd creation, to avoid races.
315 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
316     (analysed by lekma).
317 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
318     signalfd.
319 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
320 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
321     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
322 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
323 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
324 root 1.142
325 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
326 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
327     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
328 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
329 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
330 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
331 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
332     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
333     state when using libev's signal handling.
334 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
335     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
336 root 1.132
337 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
338 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
339     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
340     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
341     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
342 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
343 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
344     about thread locking.
345 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
346     - add ev_loop_depth.
347 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
348     for new events.
349 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
350     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
351     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
352     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
353 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
354 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
355 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
356     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
357 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
358 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
359 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
360 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
361 root 1.115
362 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
363 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
364     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
365 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
366     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
367     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
368     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
369 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
370     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
371     Malek Hadj-Ali).
372 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
373 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
374 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
375 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
376 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
377 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
378 root 1.102
379 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
380     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
381     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
382 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
383     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
384     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
385     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
386     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
387    
388 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
389 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
390     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
391     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
392     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
393     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
394     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
395     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
396 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
397     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
398     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
399 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
400     should return fantasy port numbers.
401 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
402 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
403 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
404     a useless string instead of the expected version string
405     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
406 root 1.95
407 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
408 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
409 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
410 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
411     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
412 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
413     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
414     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
415 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
416     automatically.
417 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
418     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
419     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
420 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
421     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
422 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
423 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
424     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
425     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
426 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
427 root 1.87
428 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
429 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
430     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
431     "known to be good" list.
432 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
433     (analysed by Roger Pack).
434 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
435     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
436     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
437     with their C compiler.
438 root 1.83
439 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
440 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
441     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
442     ADD fails with EEXIST.
443 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
444 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
445 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
446     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
447 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
448     init functions.
449 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
450     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
451 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
452     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
453 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
454     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
455 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
456     do similar changes for event.c.
457 root 1.71
458 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
459 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
460     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
461 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
462 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
463 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
464 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
465     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
466 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
467 root 1.65
468 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
469     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
470     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
471 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
472 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
473 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
474 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
475 root 1.57
476 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
477 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
478 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
479 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
480     Matt Tolton).
481    
482 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
483 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
484     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
485 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
486     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
487 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
488 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
489     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
490     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
491     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
492     reported by Matt Tolton.
493 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
494 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
495 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
496     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
497     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
498 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
499     and some other default values.
500 root 1.45
501 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
502 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
503 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
504 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
505 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
506     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
507     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
508     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
509     2-based heaps.
510 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
511     memory accesses.
512     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
513 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
514 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
515     - improve ev_stat docs.
516     - add portability requirements section.
517 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
518 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
519 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
520     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
521 root 1.31
522 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
523     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
524 root 1.29
525 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
526 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
527     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
528 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
529     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
530     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
531 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
532     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
533     C99 or gcc are available.
534     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
535 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
536     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
537     (no such systems are known at this time).
538 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
539 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
540 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
541 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
542 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
543 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
544 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
545 root 1.20
546 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
547 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
548     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
549 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
550 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
551     flags of any outer loops anymore.
552 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
553 root 1.15
554 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
555 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
556 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
557     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
558 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
559 root 1.10
560 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
561 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
562 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
563     - slightly improved documentation.
564 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
565 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
566     watchers.
567 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
568 root 1.4
569 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
570 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
571 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
572     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
573     - change how include files are found.
574     - doc updates.
575     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
576    
577     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
578     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
579     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
580     - fix embed watchers.
581     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
582     - added exported Symbol tables.
583     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
584     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
585    
586     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
587     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
588    
589     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
590     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
591     (not relevant for perl).
592    
593     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
594    
595 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
596     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
597