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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 1.368 - due to a logic bug, timerfd availability did not always translate
7     into fewer wakeups - libev is now more aggressive in using
8     longer sleeps, even when timerfd is not in use.
9    
10 root 1.367 4.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
11     - no changes w.r.t. 4.32.
12    
13 root 1.365 4.32 (EV only)
14 root 1.366 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
15 root 1.354 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
16 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
17 root 1.358 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
18 root 1.364 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
19 root 1.358 (found by b_jonas).
20     - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
21 root 1.361 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
22     to ev++.h.
23 root 1.360 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
24     work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
25     allowed before.
26 root 1.356 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
27 root 1.362 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
28     a monotonic clock.
29 root 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
30     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
31 root 1.361 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
32     ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
33 root 1.355 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
34 root 1.356 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
35 root 1.351
36 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
37 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
38     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
39 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
40     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
41     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
42     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
43 root 1.348
44     4.30 (EV only)
45 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
46     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
47 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
48     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
49 root 1.347
50 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
51     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
52     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
53 root 1.345
54 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
55 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
56     when loop is forked.
57 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
58     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
59 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
60 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
61 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
62 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
63     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
64 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
65 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
66     libecb counterparts.
67 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
68     - prepare io_uring integration.
69 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
70 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
71     reslution now all try to round up times.
72 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
73     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
74 root 1.334
75 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
76 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
77 root 1.329 limitations.
78 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
79 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
80 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
81     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
82     user error.
83     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
84     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
85 root 1.329
86     4.26 (EV only)
87     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
88 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
89 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
90 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
91 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
92     - minor code cleanups.
93 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
94 root 1.324
95 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
96     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
97 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
98 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
99 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
100 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
101 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
102     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
103 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
104 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
105     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
106 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
107 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
108     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
109 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
110 root 1.314
111 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
112     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
113     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
114     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
115    
116 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
117 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
118     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
119     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
120    
121 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
122 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
123     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
124     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
125     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
126     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
127     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
128     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
129 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
130 root 1.308
131 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
132 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
133 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
134 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
135 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
136 root 1.301
137 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
138 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
139 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
140     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
141     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
142 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
143     functionality.
144    
145 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
146 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
147     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
148 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
149 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
150 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
151     when we can't detect the signal set size.
152 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
153     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
154     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
155 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
156     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
157 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
158     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
159 root 1.288
160 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
161 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
162     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
163 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
164     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
165 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
166     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
167     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
168     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
169 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
170     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
171 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
172 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
173     be overfenced than underprotected.
174 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
175     still active).
176 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
177     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
178 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
179     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
180 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
181 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
182     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
183 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
184     in many cases.
185 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
186 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
187     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
188 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
189 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
190     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
191 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
192     Denis Bilenko).
193 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
194 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
195     the watcher base set (loop) method.
196 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
197 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
198 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
199 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
200     inotify-supporting filesystems.
201 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
202     versions ignore it before
203     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
204 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
205 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
206 root 1.253
207 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
208 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
209     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
210 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
211 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
212     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
213 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
214     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
215     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
216 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
217 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
218     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
219 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
220 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
221 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
222 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
223     as no external libraries are required.
224 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
225 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
226 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
227 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
228 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
229     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
230     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
231 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
232     static.
233 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
234     were empty.
235 root 1.225
236 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
237     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
238     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
239     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
240 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
241 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
242 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
243     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
244 root 1.221
245 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
246 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
247 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
248     backend, by generating events on our own.
249 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
250     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
251     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
252     than that).
253 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
254     #ifdef to test for them.
255 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
256     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
257     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
258 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
259 root 1.209
260 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
261 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
262 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
263     event.h on make install. grrr.
264     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
265 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
266 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
267 root 1.203
268 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
269 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
270 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
271     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
272 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
273 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
274 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
275     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
276 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
277 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
278 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
279     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
280 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
281     did not work properly.
282 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
283 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
284 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
285     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
286     even when there is nothing to set.
287 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
288 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
289     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
290 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
291     on freebsd...).
292 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
293 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
294     override it.
295 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
296     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
297 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
298     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
299     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
300 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
301     in an obscure case.
302 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
303     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
304     no sscanf dependency).
305 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
306 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
307 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
308 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
309 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
310 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
311 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
312 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
313 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
314 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
315     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
316 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
317     default arguments when compiled as C++.
318 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
319 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
320 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
321 root 1.157
322 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
323 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
324     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
325     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
326     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
327     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
328 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
329 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
330 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
331 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
332 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
333 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
334 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
335 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
336     (patch by Didier Spezia).
337 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
338     on fd creation, to avoid races.
339 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
340     (analysed by lekma).
341 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
342     signalfd.
343 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
344 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
345     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
346 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
347 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
348 root 1.142
349 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
350 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
351     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
352 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
353 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
354 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
355 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
356     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
357     state when using libev's signal handling.
358 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
359     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
360 root 1.132
361 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
362 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
363     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
364     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
365     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
366 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
367 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
368     about thread locking.
369 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
370     - add ev_loop_depth.
371 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
372     for new events.
373 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
374     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
375     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
376     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
377 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
378 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
379 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
380     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
381 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
382 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
383 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
384 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
385 root 1.115
386 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
387 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
388     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
389 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
390     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
391     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
392     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
393 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
394     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
395     Malek Hadj-Ali).
396 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
397 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
398 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
399 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
400 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
401 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
402 root 1.102
403 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
404     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
405     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
406 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
407     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
408     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
409     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
410     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
411    
412 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
413 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
414     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
415     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
416     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
417     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
418     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
419     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
420 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
421     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
422     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
423 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
424     should return fantasy port numbers.
425 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
426 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
427 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
428     a useless string instead of the expected version string
429     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
430 root 1.95
431 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
432 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
433 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
434 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
435     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
436 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
437     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
438     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
439 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
440     automatically.
441 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
442     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
443     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
444 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
445     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
446 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
447 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
448     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
449     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
450 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
451 root 1.87
452 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
453 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
454     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
455     "known to be good" list.
456 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
457     (analysed by Roger Pack).
458 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
459     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
460     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
461     with their C compiler.
462 root 1.83
463 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
464 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
465     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
466     ADD fails with EEXIST.
467 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
468 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
469 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
470     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
471 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
472     init functions.
473 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
474     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
475 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
476     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
477 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
478     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
479 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
480     do similar changes for event.c.
481 root 1.71
482 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
483 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
484     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
485 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
486 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
487 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
488 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
489     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
490 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
491 root 1.65
492 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
493     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
494     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
495 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
496 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
497 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
498 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
499 root 1.57
500 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
501 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
502 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
503 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
504     Matt Tolton).
505    
506 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
507 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
508     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
509 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
510     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
511 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
512 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
513     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
514     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
515     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
516     reported by Matt Tolton.
517 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
518 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
519 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
520     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
521     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
522 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
523     and some other default values.
524 root 1.45
525 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
526 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
527 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
528 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
529 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
530     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
531     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
532     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
533     2-based heaps.
534 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
535     memory accesses.
536     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
537 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
538 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
539     - improve ev_stat docs.
540     - add portability requirements section.
541 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
542 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
543 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
544     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
545 root 1.31
546 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
547     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
548 root 1.29
549 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
550 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
551     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
552 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
553     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
554     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
555 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
556     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
557     C99 or gcc are available.
558     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
559 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
560     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
561     (no such systems are known at this time).
562 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
563 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
564 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
565 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
566 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
567 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
568 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
569 root 1.20
570 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
571 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
572     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
573 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
574 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
575     flags of any outer loops anymore.
576 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
577 root 1.15
578 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
579 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
580 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
581     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
582 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
583 root 1.10
584 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
585 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
586 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
587     - slightly improved documentation.
588 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
589 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
590     watchers.
591 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
592 root 1.4
593 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
594 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
595 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
596     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
597     - change how include files are found.
598     - doc updates.
599     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
600    
601     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
602     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
603     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
604     - fix embed watchers.
605     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
606     - added exported Symbol tables.
607     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
608     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
609    
610     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
611     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
612    
613     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
614     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
615     (not relevant for perl).
616    
617     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
618    
619 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
620     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
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