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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 1.370 TODO: https://paste.debian.net/1268417/, stdfun
6 root 1.344
7 root 1.369 - libev did not compile on systems lacking clock_gettime.
8 root 1.368 - due to a logic bug, timerfd availability did not always translate
9     into fewer wakeups - libev is now more aggressive in using
10     longer sleeps, even when timerfd is not in use.
11    
12 root 1.367 4.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
13     - no changes w.r.t. 4.32.
14    
15 root 1.365 4.32 (EV only)
16 root 1.366 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
17 root 1.354 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
18 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
19 root 1.358 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
20 root 1.364 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
21 root 1.358 (found by b_jonas).
22     - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
23 root 1.361 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
24     to ev++.h.
25 root 1.360 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
26     work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
27     allowed before.
28 root 1.356 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
29 root 1.362 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
30     a monotonic clock.
31 root 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
32     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
33 root 1.361 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
34     ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
35 root 1.355 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
36 root 1.356 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
37 root 1.351
38 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
39 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
40     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
41 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
42     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
43     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
44     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
45 root 1.348
46     4.30 (EV only)
47 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
48     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
49 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
50     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
51 root 1.347
52 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
53     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
54     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
55 root 1.345
56 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
57 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
58     when loop is forked.
59 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
60     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
61 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
62 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
63 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
64 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
65     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
66 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
67 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
68     libecb counterparts.
69 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
70     - prepare io_uring integration.
71 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
72 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
73     reslution now all try to round up times.
74 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
75     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
76 root 1.334
77 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
78 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
79 root 1.329 limitations.
80 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
81 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
82 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
83     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
84     user error.
85     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
86     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
87 root 1.329
88     4.26 (EV only)
89     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
90 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
91 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
92 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
93 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
94     - minor code cleanups.
95 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
96 root 1.324
97 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
98     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
99 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
100 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
101 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
102 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
103 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
104     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
105 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
106 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
107     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
108 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
109 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
110     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
111 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
112 root 1.314
113 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
114     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
115     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
116     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
117    
118 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
119 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
120     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
121     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
122    
123 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
124 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
125     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
126     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
127     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
128     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
129     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
130     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
131 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
132 root 1.308
133 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
134 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
135 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
136 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
137 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
138 root 1.301
139 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
140 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
141 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
142     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
143     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
144 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
145     functionality.
146    
147 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
148 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
149     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
150 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
151 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
152 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
153     when we can't detect the signal set size.
154 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
155     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
156     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
157 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
158     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
159 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
160     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
161 root 1.288
162 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
163 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
164     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
165 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
166     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
167 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
168     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
169     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
170     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
171 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
172     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
173 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
174 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
175     be overfenced than underprotected.
176 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
177     still active).
178 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
179     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
180 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
181     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
182 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
183 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
184     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
185 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
186     in many cases.
187 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
188 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
189     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
190 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
191 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
192     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
193 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
194     Denis Bilenko).
195 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
196 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
197     the watcher base set (loop) method.
198 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
199 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
200 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
201 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
202     inotify-supporting filesystems.
203 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
204     versions ignore it before
205     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
206 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
207 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
208 root 1.253
209 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
210 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
211     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
212 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
213 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
214     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
215 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
216     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
217     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
218 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
219 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
220     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
221 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
222 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
223 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
224 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
225     as no external libraries are required.
226 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
227 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
228 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
229 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
230 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
231     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
232     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
233 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
234     static.
235 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
236     were empty.
237 root 1.225
238 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
239     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
240     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
241     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
242 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
243 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
244 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
245     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
246 root 1.221
247 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
248 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
249 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
250     backend, by generating events on our own.
251 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
252     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
253     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
254     than that).
255 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
256     #ifdef to test for them.
257 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
258     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
259     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
260 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
261 root 1.209
262 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
263 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
264 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
265     event.h on make install. grrr.
266     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
267 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
268 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
269 root 1.203
270 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
271 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
272 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
273     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
274 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
275 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
276 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
277     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
278 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
279 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
280 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
281     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
282 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
283     did not work properly.
284 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
285 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
286 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
287     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
288     even when there is nothing to set.
289 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
290 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
291     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
292 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
293     on freebsd...).
294 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
295 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
296     override it.
297 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
298     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
299 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
300     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
301     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
302 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
303     in an obscure case.
304 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
305     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
306     no sscanf dependency).
307 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
308 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
309 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
310 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
311 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
312 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
313 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
314 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
315 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
316 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
317     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
318 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
319     default arguments when compiled as C++.
320 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
321 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
322 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
323 root 1.157
324 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
325 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
326     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
327     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
328     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
329     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
330 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
331 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
332 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
333 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
334 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
335 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
336 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
337 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
338     (patch by Didier Spezia).
339 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
340     on fd creation, to avoid races.
341 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
342     (analysed by lekma).
343 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
344     signalfd.
345 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
346 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
347     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
348 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
349 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
350 root 1.142
351 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
352 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
353     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
354 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
355 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
356 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
357 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
358     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
359     state when using libev's signal handling.
360 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
361     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
362 root 1.132
363 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
364 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
365     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
366     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
367     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
368 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
369 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
370     about thread locking.
371 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
372     - add ev_loop_depth.
373 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
374     for new events.
375 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
376     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
377     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
378     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
379 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
380 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
381 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
382     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
383 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
384 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
385 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
386 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
387 root 1.115
388 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
389 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
390     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
391 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
392     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
393     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
394     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
395 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
396     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
397     Malek Hadj-Ali).
398 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
399 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
400 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
401 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
402 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
403 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
404 root 1.102
405 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
406     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
407     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
408 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
409     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
410     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
411     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
412     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
413    
414 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
415 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
416     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
417     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
418     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
419     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
420     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
421     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
422 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
423     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
424     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
425 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
426     should return fantasy port numbers.
427 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
428 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
429 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
430     a useless string instead of the expected version string
431     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
432 root 1.95
433 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
434 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
435 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
436 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
437     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
438 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
439     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
440     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
441 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
442     automatically.
443 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
444     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
445     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
446 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
447     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
448 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
449 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
450     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
451     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
452 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
453 root 1.87
454 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
455 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
456     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
457     "known to be good" list.
458 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
459     (analysed by Roger Pack).
460 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
461     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
462     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
463     with their C compiler.
464 root 1.83
465 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
466 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
467     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
468     ADD fails with EEXIST.
469 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
470 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
471 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
472     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
473 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
474     init functions.
475 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
476     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
477 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
478     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
479 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
480     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
481 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
482     do similar changes for event.c.
483 root 1.71
484 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
485 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
486     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
487 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
488 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
489 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
490 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
491     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
492 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
493 root 1.65
494 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
495     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
496     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
497 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
498 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
499 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
500 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
501 root 1.57
502 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
503 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
504 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
505 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
506     Matt Tolton).
507    
508 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
509 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
510     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
511 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
512     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
513 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
514 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
515     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
516     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
517     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
518     reported by Matt Tolton.
519 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
520 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
521 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
522     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
523     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
524 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
525     and some other default values.
526 root 1.45
527 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
528 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
529 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
530 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
531 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
532     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
533     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
534     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
535     2-based heaps.
536 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
537     memory accesses.
538     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
539 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
540 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
541     - improve ev_stat docs.
542     - add portability requirements section.
543 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
544 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
545 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
546     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
547 root 1.31
548 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
549     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
550 root 1.29
551 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
552 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
553     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
554 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
555     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
556     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
557 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
558     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
559     C99 or gcc are available.
560     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
561 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
562     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
563     (no such systems are known at this time).
564 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
565 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
566 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
567 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
568 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
569 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
570 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
571 root 1.20
572 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
573 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
574     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
575 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
576 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
577     flags of any outer loops anymore.
578 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
579 root 1.15
580 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
581 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
582 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
583     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
584 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
585 root 1.10
586 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
587 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
588 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
589     - slightly improved documentation.
590 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
591 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
592     watchers.
593 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
594 root 1.4
595 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
596 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
597 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
598     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
599     - change how include files are found.
600     - doc updates.
601     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
602    
603     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
604     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
605     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
606     - fix embed watchers.
607     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
608     - added exported Symbol tables.
609     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
610     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
611    
612     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
613     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
614    
615     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
616     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
617     (not relevant for perl).
618    
619     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
620    
621 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
622     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
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