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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 1.359 TODO: for next ABI/API change, consider moving EV__IOFDSSET into io->fd instead and provide a getter.
4 root 1.342 TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
5 root 1.344
6 root 1.357 TODO: maybe allow events = 0 for io watchers
7 root 1.354 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changes the priority of the signal
8     fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
9 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
10 root 1.358 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
11     members in io watchers when the wqatcher was stopped
12     (found by b_jonas).
13     - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
14 root 1.361 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
15     to ev++.h.
16 root 1.360 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
17     work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
18     allowed before.
19 root 1.356 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
20 root 1.362 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
21     a monotonic clock.
22 root 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
23     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
24 root 1.361 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
25     ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
26 root 1.355 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
27 root 1.356 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
28 root 1.351
29 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
30 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
31     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
32 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
33     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
34     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
35     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
36 root 1.348
37     4.30 (EV only)
38 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
39     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
40 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
41     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
42 root 1.347
43 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
44     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
45     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
46 root 1.345
47 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
48 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
49     when loop is forked.
50 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
51     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
52 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
53 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
54 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
55 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
56     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
57 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
58 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
59     libecb counterparts.
60 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
61     - prepare io_uring integration.
62 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
63 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
64     reslution now all try to round up times.
65 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
66     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
67 root 1.334
68 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
69 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
70 root 1.329 limitations.
71 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
72 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
73 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
74     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
75     user error.
76     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
77     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
78 root 1.329
79     4.26 (EV only)
80     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
81 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
82 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
83 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
84 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
85     - minor code cleanups.
86 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
87 root 1.324
88 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
89     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
90 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
91 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
92 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
93 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
94 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
95     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
96 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
97 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
98     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
99 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
100 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
101     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
102 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
103 root 1.314
104 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
105     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
106     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
107     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
108    
109 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
110 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
111     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
112     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
113    
114 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
115 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
116     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
117     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
118     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
119     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
120     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
121     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
122 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
123 root 1.308
124 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
125 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
126 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
127 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
128 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
129 root 1.301
130 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
131 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
132 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
133     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
134     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
135 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
136     functionality.
137    
138 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
139 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
140     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
141 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
142 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
143 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
144     when we can't detect the signal set size.
145 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
146     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
147     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
148 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
149     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
150 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
151     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
152 root 1.288
153 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
154 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
155     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
156 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
157     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
158 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
159     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
160     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
161     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
162 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
163     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
164 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
165 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
166     be overfenced than underprotected.
167 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
168     still active).
169 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
170     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
171 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
172     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
173 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
174 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
175     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
176 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
177     in many cases.
178 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
179 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
180     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
181 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
182 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
183     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
184 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
185     Denis Bilenko).
186 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
187 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
188     the watcher base set (loop) method.
189 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
190 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
191 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
192 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
193     inotify-supporting filesystems.
194 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
195     versions ignore it before
196     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
197 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
198 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
199 root 1.253
200 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
201 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
202     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
203 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
204 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
205     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
206 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
207     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
208     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
209 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
210 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
211     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
212 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
213 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
214 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
215 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
216     as no external libraries are required.
217 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
218 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
219 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
220 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
221 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
222     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
223     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
224 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
225     static.
226 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
227     were empty.
228 root 1.225
229 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
230     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
231     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
232     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
233 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
234 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
235 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
236     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
237 root 1.221
238 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
239 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
240 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
241     backend, by generating events on our own.
242 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
243     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
244     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
245     than that).
246 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
247     #ifdef to test for them.
248 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
249     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
250     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
251 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
252 root 1.209
253 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
254 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
255 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
256     event.h on make install. grrr.
257     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
258 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
259 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
260 root 1.203
261 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
262 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
263 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
264     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
265 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
266 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
267 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
268     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
269 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
270 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
271 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
272     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
273 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
274     did not work properly.
275 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
276 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
277 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
278     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
279     even when there is nothing to set.
280 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
281 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
282     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
283 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
284     on freebsd...).
285 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
286 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
287     override it.
288 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
289     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
290 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
291     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
292     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
293 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
294     in an obscure case.
295 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
296     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
297     no sscanf dependency).
298 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
299 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
300 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
301 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
302 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
303 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
304 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
305 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
306 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
307 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
308     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
309 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
310     default arguments when compiled as C++.
311 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
312 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
313 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
314 root 1.157
315 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
316 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
317     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
318     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
319     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
320     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
321 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
322 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
323 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
324 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
325 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
326 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
327 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
328 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
329     (patch by Didier Spezia).
330 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
331     on fd creation, to avoid races.
332 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
333     (analysed by lekma).
334 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
335     signalfd.
336 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
337 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
338     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
339 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
340 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
341 root 1.142
342 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
343 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
344     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
345 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
346 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
347 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
348 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
349     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
350     state when using libev's signal handling.
351 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
352     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
353 root 1.132
354 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
355 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
356     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
357     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
358     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
359 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
360 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
361     about thread locking.
362 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
363     - add ev_loop_depth.
364 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
365     for new events.
366 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
367     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
368     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
369     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
370 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
371 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
372 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
373     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
374 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
375 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
376 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
377 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
378 root 1.115
379 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
380 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
381     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
382 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
383     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
384     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
385     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
386 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
387     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
388     Malek Hadj-Ali).
389 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
390 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
391 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
392 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
393 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
394 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
395 root 1.102
396 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
397     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
398     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
399 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
400     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
401     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
402     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
403     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
404    
405 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
406 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
407     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
408     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
409     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
410     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
411     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
412     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
413 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
414     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
415     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
416 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
417     should return fantasy port numbers.
418 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
419 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
420 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
421     a useless string instead of the expected version string
422     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
423 root 1.95
424 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
425 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
426 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
427 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
428     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
429 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
430     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
431     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
432 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
433     automatically.
434 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
435     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
436     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
437 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
438     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
439 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
440 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
441     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
442     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
443 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
444 root 1.87
445 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
446 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
447     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
448     "known to be good" list.
449 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
450     (analysed by Roger Pack).
451 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
452     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
453     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
454     with their C compiler.
455 root 1.83
456 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
457 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
458     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
459     ADD fails with EEXIST.
460 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
461 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
462 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
463     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
464 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
465     init functions.
466 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
467     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
468 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
469     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
470 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
471     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
472 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
473     do similar changes for event.c.
474 root 1.71
475 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
476 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
477     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
478 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
479 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
480 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
481 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
482     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
483 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
484 root 1.65
485 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
486     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
487     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
488 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
489 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
490 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
491 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
492 root 1.57
493 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
494 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
495 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
496 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
497     Matt Tolton).
498    
499 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
500 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
501     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
502 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
503     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
504 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
505 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
506     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
507     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
508     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
509     reported by Matt Tolton.
510 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
511 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
512 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
513     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
514     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
515 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
516     and some other default values.
517 root 1.45
518 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
519 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
520 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
521 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
522 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
523     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
524     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
525     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
526     2-based heaps.
527 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
528     memory accesses.
529     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
530 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
531 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
532     - improve ev_stat docs.
533     - add portability requirements section.
534 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
535 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
536 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
537     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
538 root 1.31
539 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
540     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
541 root 1.29
542 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
543 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
544     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
545 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
546     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
547     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
548 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
549     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
550     C99 or gcc are available.
551     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
552 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
553     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
554     (no such systems are known at this time).
555 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
556 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
557 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
558 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
559 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
560 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
561 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
562 root 1.20
563 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
564 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
565     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
566 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
567 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
568     flags of any outer loops anymore.
569 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
570 root 1.15
571 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
572 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
573 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
574     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
575 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
576 root 1.10
577 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
578 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
579 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
580     - slightly improved documentation.
581 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
582 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
583     watchers.
584 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
585 root 1.4
586 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
587 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
588 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
589     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
590     - change how include files are found.
591     - doc updates.
592     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
593    
594     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
595     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
596     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
597     - fix embed watchers.
598     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
599     - added exported Symbol tables.
600     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
601     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
602    
603     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
604     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
605    
606     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
607     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
608     (not relevant for perl).
609    
610     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
611    
612 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
613     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
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