--- libev/Changes 2008/12/14 21:58:08 1.93 +++ libev/Changes 2009/07/15 16:08:24 1.127 @@ -1,5 +1,78 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. +TODO: ev_walk +TODO: remain +TODO: EV_MINIMAL + + - new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata, + ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb, + ev_invoke_pending, together with a long example about thread + locking. + - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, + instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). + - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll + for new events. + - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. + - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. + - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- + check that the syscall number is available before trying to + use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). + - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for + slightly higher accuracy. + - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when + !EV_MULTIPLICITY. + - implement ev_loop_depth. + - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. + - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. + - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals. + - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs. + +3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009 + - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration + will be invoked in the "correct" order now. + - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active + watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop + that has active kernel events but no registered watchers + (reported by blacksand blacksand). + - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and + reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by + Malek Hadj-Ali). + - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. + - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. + - add documentation section about priorites. + - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. + - extend the ev_fork description slightly. + - optimize a jump out of call_pending. + +3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 + - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a + failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali). + - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall + back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older + operating systems with newer header files/libraries. + - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL + (default most everywhere), otherwise not. + +3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009 + - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is + missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos). + - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode. + - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode. + - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but + select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was + allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in + libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service + attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure + it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname + should return fantasy port numbers. + - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially + clearer diagnostics. + - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned + a useless string instead of the expected version string + (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards). + +3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett). - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use