[ViewVC] Annotation of: cvs/libev/Changes

Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.

        - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
          a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
        - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
          (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
          (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
        - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
          to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
        - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
        - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
          ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.

3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
        - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
          kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
          "known to be good" list.
        - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
          (analysed by Roger Pack).
        - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
          confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
          I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
          with their C compiler.

3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
        - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
          backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
          ADD fails with EEXIST.
        - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
          a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
          spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
          but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
        - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
          init functions.
        - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
        - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
          documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
          to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
        - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
          loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
        - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
          do similar changes for event.c.

3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
        - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
          (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
        - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
          even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
          have a performance impact).
        - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
          occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
        - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.

3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
        - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
          embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
        - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
        - verify_watcher was not marked static.
        - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
        - documentation tweaks here and there.

3.43 Sun Jul  6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
        - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
          (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
        - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
          Matt Tolton).

3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
        - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
          multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
          otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
        - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
          (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
        - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
          programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
        - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
          under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
          reported by Matt Tolton.
        - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
        - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
          is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
          switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
          have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
        - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
          and some other default values.

3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
        - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
          provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
        - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
        - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
          codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
        - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
          of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
          2-based heaps.
        - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
          memory accesses.
        - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
        - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
        - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
        - improve ev_stat docs.
        - add portability requirements section.
        - fix manpage headers etc.
        - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
        - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
          or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).

3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
        - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.

3.3  Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
        - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
          (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
        - added linux eventfd support.
        - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
          by libc header version if not using autoconf.
        - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
        - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
          C99 or gcc are available.
        - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
        - work around broken poll implementations potentially
          not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
          (no such systems are known at this time).
        - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
          also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
          go away (noted by various people).
        - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
          (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
        - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
        - made integer constants type int in ev.h.

3.2  Wed Apr  2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
        - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
          by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
        - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
        - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
          flags of any outer loops anymore.
        - add ev_async_pending.

3.1  Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
        - implement ev_async watchers.
        - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
        - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
        - improved documentation.

3.0  Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
        - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
        - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
        - slightly improved documentation.
        - speed up signal detection after a fork.
        - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
          watchers.
        - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.

2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
        - separate Changes file.
        - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
        - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
        - change how include files are found.
        - doc updates.
        - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.

2.0  Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
        - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
        - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
        - fix embed watchers.
        - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
        - added exported Symbol tables.
        - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
        - respect EV_H in ev++.h.

1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
        - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).

1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
        - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
          (not relevant for perl).

(for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)

0.1  Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
        - original version; hacked together in <24h.

Revision:	1.90
Committed:	Wed Dec 3 15:26:23 2008 UTC (15 years, 5 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.89:	+2 -0 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	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	1.87	- new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
4			a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
5	root	1.88	- assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
6			(http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
7			(no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
8	root	1.89	- EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
9			to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
10			- fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
11	root	1.90	- replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
12			ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
13	root	1.87
14	root	1.86	3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
15	root	1.83	- ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
16			kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
17			"known to be good" list.
18	root	1.84	- better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
19			(analysed by Roger Pack).
20	root	1.85	- include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
21			confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
22			I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
23			with their C compiler.
24	root	1.83
25	root	1.80	3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
26	root	1.71	- further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
27			backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
28			ADD fails with EEXIST.
29	root	1.75	- work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
30	root	1.77	a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
31	root	1.78	spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
32			but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
33	root	1.71	- use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
34			init functions.
35	root	1.72	- expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
36			- drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
37	root	1.73	documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
38			to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
39	root	1.74	- fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
40			loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
41	root	1.79	- rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
42			do similar changes for event.c.
43	root	1.71
44	root	1.69	3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
45	root	1.67	- disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
46			(reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
47			- ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
48	root	1.68	even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
49	root	1.67	have a performance impact).
50	root	1.65	- ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
51			occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
52	root	1.66	- disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
53	root	1.65
54	root	1.62	3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
55			- embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
56			embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
57	root	1.58	- new function: ev_now_update (loop).
58	root	1.57	- verify_watcher was not marked static.
59	root	1.59	- improve the "associating..." manpage section.
60	root	1.60	- documentation tweaks here and there.
61	root	1.57
62	root	1.56	3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
63	root	1.54	- include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
64	root	1.56	(reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
65	root	1.53	- add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
66			Matt Tolton).
67
68	root	1.52	3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
69	root	1.50	- work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
70			multiple times to the fd_SET, despite official MSN docs claiming
71	root	1.51	otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
72			- define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
73	root	1.48	(reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
74	root	1.49	- fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
75			programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
76			- fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
77			under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
78			reported by Matt Tolton.
79	root	1.50	- (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
80	root	1.45	- pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
81	root	1.46	is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
82			switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
83			have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
84	root	1.47	- use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
85			and some other default values.
86	root	1.45
87	root	1.44	3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
88	root	1.46	- work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
89	root	1.40	provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
90	root	1.41	- improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
91	root	1.36	- use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
92			codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
93			- use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
94			of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
95			2-based heaps.
96	root	1.38	- cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
97			memory accesses.
98			- document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
99	root	1.33	- fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
100	root	1.35	- add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
101			- improve ev_stat docs.
102			- add portability requirements section.
103	root	1.39	- fix manpage headers etc.
104	root	1.40	- normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
105	root	1.43	- add consistency check code that can be called automatically
106			or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
107	root	1.31
108	root	1.30	3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
109			- added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
110	root	1.29
111	root	1.28	3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
112	root	1.23	- event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
113			(W.C.A. Wijngaards).
114	root	1.20	- added linux eventfd support.
115			- try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
116			by libc header version if not using autoconf.
117	root	1.21	- new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
118			- declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
119			C99 or gcc are available.
120			- enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
121	root	1.25	- work around broken poll implementations potentially
122			not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
123			(no such systems are known at this time).
124	root	1.23	- work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
125			also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
126			go away (noted by various people).
127	root	1.26	- fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
128			(based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
129			- add sensible set method to ev::embed.
130	root	1.27	- made integer constants type int in ev.h.
131	root	1.20
132	root	1.19	3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
133	root	1.15	- fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
134			by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
135	root	1.16	- rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
136	root	1.18	- entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
137			flags of any outer loops anymore.
138	root	1.17	- add ev_async_pending.
139	root	1.15
140	root	1.14	3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
141	root	1.12	- implement ev_async watchers.
142	root	1.10	- only initialise signal pipe on demand.
143			- make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
144	root	1.14	- improved documentation.
145	root	1.10
146	root	1.9	3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
147	root	1.6	- API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
148	root	1.4	- ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
149			- slightly improved documentation.
150	root	1.5	- speed up signal detection after a fork.
151	root	1.6	- only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
152			watchers.
153	root	1.8	- experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
154	root	1.4
155	root	1.2	2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
156	root	1.3	- separate Changes file.
157	root	1.2	- fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
158			- remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
159			- change how include files are found.
160			- doc updates.
161			- update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
162
163			2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
164			- new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io\|timeout)_collect_interval.
165			- removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
166			- fix embed watchers.
167			- renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
168			- added exported Symbol tables.
169			- undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
170			- respect EV_H in ev++.h.
171
172			1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
173			- fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
174
175			1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
176			- fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
177			(not relevant for perl).
178
179			(for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
180
181	root	1.1	0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
182			- original version; hacked together in <24h.
183