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Revision 1.127 by root, Wed Jul 15 16:08:24 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.240 by root, Sun Sep 25 21:27:35 2011 UTC

1Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. 1Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2 2
3TODO: ev_walk 3TODO: ev_loop_wakeup
4TODO: remain
5TODO: EV_MINIMAL
6 4
7 - new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata, 5TODO: EV_NO_THREADS/NO_SMP and/or EV_USE_PTHREADS or so. also document.
8 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb, 6TODO: #define EV_API_DECL static? ev_default_loop_ptr?
9 ev_invoke_pending, together with a long example about thread 7TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone)
10 locking. 8TODO: memory fences for clang
94.10
10 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
11 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
12 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
13 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
14 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
15 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
16 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
17 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
18 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
19 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
20 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
21 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
22 as no external libraries are required.
23 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
24 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
25 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
26
274.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
28 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
29 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
30 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
31 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
32 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
33 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
34 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
35
364.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
37 - officially support polling files with all backends.
38 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
39 backend, by generating events on our own.
40 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
41 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
42 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
43 than that).
44 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
45 #ifdef to test for them.
46 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
47 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
48 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
49 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
50
514.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
52 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
53 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
54 event.h on make install. grrr.
55 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
56 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
57 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
58
594.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
60 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
61 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
62 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
63 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
64 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
65 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
66 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
67 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
68 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
69 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
70 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
71 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
72 did not work properly.
73 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
74 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
75 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
76 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
77 even when there is nothing to set.
78 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
79 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
80 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
81 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
82 on freebsd...).
83 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
84 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
85 override it.
86 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
87 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
88 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
89 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
90 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
91 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
92 in an obscure case.
93 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
94 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
95 no sscanf dependency).
96 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
97 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
98 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
99 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
100 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
101 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
102 - switch to two-digit minor version.
103 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
104 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
105 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
106 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
107 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
108 default arguments when compiled as C++.
109 - enable automake dependency tracking.
110 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
111 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
112
1133.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
114 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
115 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
116 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
117 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
118 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
119 - backport inotify code to C89.
120 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
121 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
122 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
123 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
124 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
125 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
126 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
127 (patch by Didier Spezia).
128 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
129 on fd creation, to avoid races.
130 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
131 (analysed by lekma).
132 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
133 signalfd.
134 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
135 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
136 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
137 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
138 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
139
1403.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
141 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
142 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
143 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
144 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
145 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
146 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
147 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
148 state when using libev's signal handling.
149 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
150 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
151
1523.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
11 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, 153 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
12 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). 154 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
155 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
156 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
157 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
158 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
159 about thread locking.
160 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
161 - add ev_loop_depth.
13 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll 162 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
14 for new events. 163 for new events.
15 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. 164 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
16 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
17 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- 165 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
18 check that the syscall number is available before trying to 166 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
19 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). 167 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
20 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for 168 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
21 slightly higher accuracy. 169 slightly higher accuracy.
22 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when 170 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
23 !EV_MULTIPLICITY. 171 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
24 - implement ev_loop_depth.
25 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. 172 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
26 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. 173 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
27 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals. 174 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
28 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs. 175 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
29 176
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124 do similar changes for event.c. 271 do similar changes for event.c.
125 272
1263.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 2733.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
127 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken 274 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
128 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). 275 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
129 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers 276 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
130 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only 277 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
131 have a performance impact). 278 have a performance impact).
132 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both 279 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
133 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. 280 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
134 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. 281 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
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202 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. 349 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
203 - work around broken poll implementations potentially 350 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
204 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) 351 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
205 (no such systems are known at this time). 352 (no such systems are known at this time).
206 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, 353 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
207 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints 354 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
208 go away (noted by various people). 355 go away (noted by various people).
209 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async 356 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
210 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. 357 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
211 - add sensible set method to ev::embed. 358 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
212 - made integer constants type int in ev.h. 359 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
213 360
2143.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 3613.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
215 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, 362 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,

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