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Revision 1.97 by root, Tue Jan 6 19:46:56 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.159 by root, Thu Jan 14 20:23:36 2010 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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3 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan.
4 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
5 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
6 override it.
7
83.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
9 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
10 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
11 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
12 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
13 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
14 - backport inotify code to C89.
15 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
16 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
17 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
18 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
19 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
20 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
21 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
22 (patch by Didier Spezia).
23 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
24 on fd creation, to avoid races.
25 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
26 (analysed by lekma).
27 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
28 signalfd.
29 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
30 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
31 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
32 have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
33 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
34
353.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
36 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
37 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
38 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
39 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
40 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
41 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
42 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
43 state when using libev's signal handling.
44 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
45 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
46
473.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
48 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
49 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
50 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
51 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
52 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
53 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
54 about thread locking.
55 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
56 - add ev_loop_depth.
57 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
58 for new events.
59 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
60 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
61 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
62 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
63 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
64 slightly higher accuracy.
65 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
66 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
67 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
68 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
69 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
70 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
71
723.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
73 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
74 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
75 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
76 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
77 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
78 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
79 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
80 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
81 Malek Hadj-Ali).
82 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
83 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
84 - add documentation section about priorites.
85 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
86 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
87 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
88
893.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
90 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
91 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
92 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
93 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
94 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
95 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
96 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
97
983.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
3 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is 99 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
4 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos). 100 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
5 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode. 101 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
6 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode. 102 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
7 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but 103 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
10 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in 106 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
11 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service 107 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
12 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure 108 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
13 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname 109 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
14 should return fantasy port numbers. 110 should return fantasy port numbers.
15 - include "libev" all assertion messages for potentially 111 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
16 clearer diagnostics. 112 clearer diagnostics.
113 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
114 a useless string instead of the expected version string
115 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
17 116
183.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008 1173.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
19 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing 118 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
20 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett). 119 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
21 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use 120 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use

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