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Revision 1.83 by root, Mon Nov 3 14:27:06 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.138 by root, Sun Jul 19 07:20:41 2009 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.
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3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 3TODO: ev_walk
4TODO: signal handling per loop
5TODO: NSIG etc.
6TODO: NOSIGFD/NOEVTFD/NOINOTIFY?
7TODO: gotsig per-loop
8 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
9 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
10 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
11 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
12 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
13 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
14 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
15 state when using libev's signal handling.
16 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
17 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
4 18
193.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
20 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
21 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
22 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
23 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
24 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
25 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
26 about thread locking.
27 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
28 - add ev_loop_depth.
29 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
30 for new events.
31 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
32 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
33 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
34 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
35 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
36 slightly higher accuracy.
37 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
38 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
39 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
40 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
41 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
42 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
43
443.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
45 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
46 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
47 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
48 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
49 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
50 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
51 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
52 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
53 Malek Hadj-Ali).
54 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
55 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
56 - add documentation section about priorites.
57 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
58 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
59 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
60
613.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
62 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
63 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
64 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
65 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
66 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
67 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
68 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
69
703.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
71 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
72 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
73 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
74 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
75 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
76 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
77 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
78 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
79 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
80 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
81 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
82 should return fantasy port numbers.
83 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
84 clearer diagnostics.
85 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
86 a useless string instead of the expected version string
87 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
88
893.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
90 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
91 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
92 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
93 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
94 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
95 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
96 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
97 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
98 automatically.
99 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
100 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
101 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
102 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
103 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
104 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
105 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
106 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
107 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
108 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
109
1103.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
5 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on 111 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
6 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the 112 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
7 "known to be good" list. 113 "known to be good" list.
114 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
115 (analysed by Roger Pack).
116 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
117 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
118 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
119 with their C compiler.
8 120
93.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008 1213.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
10 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll 122 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
11 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if 123 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
12 ADD fails with EEXIST. 124 ADD fails with EEXIST.

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