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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: move some other examples to common idioms? combining watchers,
4thread usage, coroutine switch?
5
6TODO: /dev/null epoll breakage, maybe catch EPERM?
74.03
8 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
9 #ifdef to test for them.
10
114.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
12 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
13 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
14 event.h on make install. grrr.
15 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
16 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
17 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
18
194.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
20 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
21 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
22 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
23 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
24 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
25 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
26 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
27 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
28 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
29 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
30 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
31 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
32 did not work properly.
33 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
34 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
35 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
36 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
37 even when there is nothing to set.
38 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
39 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
40 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
41 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
42 on freebsd...).
43 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
44 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
45 override it.
46 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
47 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
48 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
49 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
50 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
51 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
52 in an obscure case.
53 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
54 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
55 no sscanf dependency).
56 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
57 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
58 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
59 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
60 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
61 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
62 - switch to two-digit minor version.
63 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
64 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
65 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
66 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
67 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
68 default arguments when compiled as C++.
69 - enable automake dependency tracking.
70 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
71 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
72
733.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
3 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested 74 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
4 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to 75 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
5 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 76 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
6 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 77 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
7 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 78 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
21 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for 92 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
22 signalfd. 93 signalfd.
23 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). 94 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
24 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, 95 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
25 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might 96 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
26 have caused the probems with 04_stat.t. 97 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
27 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. 98 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
28 99
293.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 1003.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
30 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler 101 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
31 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. 102 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
32 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members, 103 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
33 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated 104 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
34 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. 105 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
35 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. 106 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
36 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified 107 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
37 state when using libev's signal handling. 108 state when using libev's signal handling.
38 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock 109 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
160 do similar changes for event.c. 231 do similar changes for event.c.
161 232
1623.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 2333.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
163 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken 234 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
164 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). 235 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
165 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers 236 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
166 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only 237 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
167 have a performance impact). 238 have a performance impact).
168 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both 239 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
169 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. 240 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
170 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. 241 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
238 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. 309 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
239 - work around broken poll implementations potentially 310 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
240 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) 311 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
241 (no such systems are known at this time). 312 (no such systems are known at this time).
242 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, 313 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
243 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints 314 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
244 go away (noted by various people). 315 go away (noted by various people).
245 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async 316 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
246 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. 317 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
247 - add sensible set method to ev::embed. 318 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
248 - made integer constants type int in ev.h. 319 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
249 320
2503.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 3213.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
251 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, 322 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,

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