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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 1.369 - libev did not compile on systems lacking clock_gettime.
7 root 1.368 - due to a logic bug, timerfd availability did not always translate
8     into fewer wakeups - libev is now more aggressive in using
9     longer sleeps, even when timerfd is not in use.
10    
11 root 1.367 4.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
12     - no changes w.r.t. 4.32.
13    
14 root 1.365 4.32 (EV only)
15 root 1.366 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
16 root 1.354 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
17 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
18 root 1.358 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
19 root 1.364 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
20 root 1.358 (found by b_jonas).
21     - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
22 root 1.361 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
23     to ev++.h.
24 root 1.360 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
25     work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
26     allowed before.
27 root 1.356 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
28 root 1.362 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
29     a monotonic clock.
30 root 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
31     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
32 root 1.361 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
33     ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
34 root 1.355 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
35 root 1.356 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
36 root 1.351
37 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
38 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
39     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
40 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
41     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
42     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
43     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
44 root 1.348
45     4.30 (EV only)
46 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
47     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
48 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
49     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
50 root 1.347
51 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
52     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
53     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
54 root 1.345
55 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
56 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
57     when loop is forked.
58 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
59     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
60 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
61 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
62 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
63 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
64     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
65 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
66 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
67     libecb counterparts.
68 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
69     - prepare io_uring integration.
70 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
71 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
72     reslution now all try to round up times.
73 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
74     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
75 root 1.334
76 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
77 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
78 root 1.329 limitations.
79 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
80 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
81 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
82     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
83     user error.
84     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
85     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
86 root 1.329
87     4.26 (EV only)
88     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
89 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
90 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
91 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
92 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
93     - minor code cleanups.
94 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
95 root 1.324
96 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
97     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
98 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
99 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
100 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
101 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
102 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
103     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
104 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
105 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
106     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
107 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
108 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
109     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
110 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
111 root 1.314
112 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
113     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
114     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
115     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
116    
117 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
118 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
119     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
120     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
121    
122 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
123 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
124     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
125     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
126     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
127     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
128     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
129     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
130 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
131 root 1.308
132 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
133 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
134 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
135 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
136 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
137 root 1.301
138 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
139 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
140 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
141     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
142     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
143 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
144     functionality.
145    
146 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
147 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
148     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
149 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
150 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
151 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
152     when we can't detect the signal set size.
153 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
154     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
155     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
156 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
157     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
158 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
159     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
160 root 1.288
161 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
162 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
163     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
164 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
165     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
166 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
167     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
168     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
169     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
170 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
171     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
172 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
173 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
174     be overfenced than underprotected.
175 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
176     still active).
177 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
178     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
179 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
180     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
181 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
182 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
183     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
184 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
185     in many cases.
186 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
187 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
188     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
189 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
190 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
191     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
192 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
193     Denis Bilenko).
194 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
195 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
196     the watcher base set (loop) method.
197 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
198 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
199 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
200 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
201     inotify-supporting filesystems.
202 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
203     versions ignore it before
204     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
205 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
206 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
207 root 1.253
208 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
209 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
210     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
211 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
212 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
213     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
214 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
215     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
216     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
217 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
218 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
219     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
220 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
221 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
222 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
223 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
224     as no external libraries are required.
225 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
226 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
227 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
228 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
229 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
230     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
231     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
232 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
233     static.
234 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
235     were empty.
236 root 1.225
237 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
238     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
239     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
240     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
241 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
242 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
243 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
244     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
245 root 1.221
246 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
247 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
248 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
249     backend, by generating events on our own.
250 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
251     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
252     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
253     than that).
254 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
255     #ifdef to test for them.
256 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
257     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
258     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
259 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
260 root 1.209
261 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
262 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
263 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
264     event.h on make install. grrr.
265     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
266 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
267 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
268 root 1.203
269 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
270 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
271 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
272     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
273 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
274 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
275 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
276     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
277 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
278 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
279 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
280     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
281 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
282     did not work properly.
283 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
284 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
285 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
286     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
287     even when there is nothing to set.
288 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
289 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
290     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
291 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
292     on freebsd...).
293 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
294 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
295     override it.
296 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
297     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
298 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
299     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
300     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
301 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
302     in an obscure case.
303 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
304     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
305     no sscanf dependency).
306 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
307 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
308 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
309 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
310 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
311 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
312 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
313 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
314 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
315 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
316     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
317 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
318     default arguments when compiled as C++.
319 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
320 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
321 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
322 root 1.157
323 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
324 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
325     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
326     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
327     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
328     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
329 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
330 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
331 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
332 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
333 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
334 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
335 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
336 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
337     (patch by Didier Spezia).
338 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
339     on fd creation, to avoid races.
340 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
341     (analysed by lekma).
342 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
343     signalfd.
344 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
345 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
346     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
347 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
348 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
349 root 1.142
350 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
351 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
352     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
353 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
354 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
355 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
356 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
357     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
358     state when using libev's signal handling.
359 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
360     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
361 root 1.132
362 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
363 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
364     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
365     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
366     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
367 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
368 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
369     about thread locking.
370 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
371     - add ev_loop_depth.
372 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
373     for new events.
374 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
375     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
376     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
377     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
378 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
379 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
380 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
381     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
382 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
383 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
384 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
385 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
386 root 1.115
387 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
388 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
389     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
390 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
391     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
392     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
393     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
394 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
395     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
396     Malek Hadj-Ali).
397 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
398 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
399 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
400 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
401 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
402 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
403 root 1.102
404 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
405     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
406     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
407 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
408     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
409     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
410     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
411     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
412    
413 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
414 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
415     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
416     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
417     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
418     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
419     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
420     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
421 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
422     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
423     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
424 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
425     should return fantasy port numbers.
426 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
427 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
428 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
429     a useless string instead of the expected version string
430     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
431 root 1.95
432 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
433 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
434 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
435 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
436     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
437 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
438     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
439     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
440 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
441     automatically.
442 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
443     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
444     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
445 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
446     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
447 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
448 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
449     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
450     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
451 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
452 root 1.87
453 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
454 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
455     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
456     "known to be good" list.
457 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
458     (analysed by Roger Pack).
459 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
460     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
461     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
462     with their C compiler.
463 root 1.83
464 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
465 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
466     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
467     ADD fails with EEXIST.
468 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
469 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
470 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
471     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
472 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
473     init functions.
474 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
475     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
476 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
477     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
478 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
479     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
480 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
481     do similar changes for event.c.
482 root 1.71
483 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
484 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
485     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
486 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
487 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
488 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
489 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
490     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
491 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
492 root 1.65
493 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
494     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
495     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
496 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
497 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
498 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
499 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
500 root 1.57
501 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
502 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
503 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
504 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
505     Matt Tolton).
506    
507 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
508 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
509     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
510 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
511     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
512 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
513 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
514     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
515     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
516     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
517     reported by Matt Tolton.
518 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
519 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
520 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
521     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
522     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
523 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
524     and some other default values.
525 root 1.45
526 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
527 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
528 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
529 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
530 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
531     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
532     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
533     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
534     2-based heaps.
535 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
536     memory accesses.
537     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
538 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
539 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
540     - improve ev_stat docs.
541     - add portability requirements section.
542 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
543 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
544 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
545     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
546 root 1.31
547 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
548     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
549 root 1.29
550 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
551 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
552     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
553 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
554     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
555     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
556 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
557     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
558     C99 or gcc are available.
559     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
560 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
561     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
562     (no such systems are known at this time).
563 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
564 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
565 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
566 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
567 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
568 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
569 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
570 root 1.20
571 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
572 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
573     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
574 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
575 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
576     flags of any outer loops anymore.
577 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
578 root 1.15
579 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
580 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
581 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
582     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
583 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
584 root 1.10
585 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
586 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
587 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
588     - slightly improved documentation.
589 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
590 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
591     watchers.
592 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
593 root 1.4
594 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
595 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
596 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
597     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
598     - change how include files are found.
599     - doc updates.
600     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
601    
602     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
603     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
604     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
605     - fix embed watchers.
606     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
607     - added exported Symbol tables.
608     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
609     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
610    
611     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
612     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
613    
614     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
615     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
616     (not relevant for perl).
617    
618     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
619    
620 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
621     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
622