--- libev/Changes 2008/10/21 20:04:14 1.69 +++ libev/Changes 2008/11/03 14:27:06 1.83 @@ -1,5 +1,30 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. +WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? + + - 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. + +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).