--- libev/Changes 2009/07/19 07:20:41 1.138 +++ libev/Changes 2010/04/02 21:03:45 1.177 @@ -1,10 +1,65 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -TODO: ev_walk -TODO: signal handling per loop -TODO: NSIG etc. -TODO: NOSIGFD/NOEVTFD/NOINOTIFY? -TODO: gotsig per-loop +TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes??? +TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling +TODO: poll asert +TODO: EV_USE__XXX default with config, document + - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. + - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good + testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). + - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). + - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. + - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). + - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, + this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting + not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). + - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't + on freebsd...). + - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still + override it. + - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace + and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported + and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). + - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code + in an obscure case. + - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option. + - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster, + no sscanf dependency). + - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. + - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. + - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. + - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. + - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify. + - switch to two-digit minor version. + +3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 + - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested + explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to + catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. + - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and + that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. + - backport inotify code to C89. + - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. + - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, + preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases + provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). + - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration + symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. + - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h + (patch by Didier Spezia). + - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock + on fd creation, to avoid races. + - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows + (analysed by lekma). + - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for + signalfd. + - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). + - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, + so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might + have caused the probems with 04_stat.t. + - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. + +3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,