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Revision 1.105 by root, Wed Apr 15 09:51:19 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.167 by root, Tue Mar 16 00:43:22 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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3TODO: ev_time_freeze, ev_time_thaw 3TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes???
4TODO: ev_walk 4 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
5TODO: ev_stop_all 5 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
6TODO: fix signal handling(?) under win32 6 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
7 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
8 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
9 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
10 override it.
11 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
12 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
13 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
14 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
15 in an obscure case.
16 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
17 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
18 no sscanf dependency).
19 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
20 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newwer glibcs.
21 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
22
233.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
24 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
25 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
26 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
27 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
28 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
29 - backport inotify code to C89.
30 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
31 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
32 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
33 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
34 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
35 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
36 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
37 (patch by Didier Spezia).
38 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
39 on fd creation, to avoid races.
40 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
41 (analysed by lekma).
42 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
43 signalfd.
44 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
45 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
46 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
47 have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
48 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
49
503.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
51 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
52 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
53 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
54 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
55 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
56 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
57 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
58 state when using libev's signal handling.
59 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
60 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
61
623.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
63 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
64 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
65 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
66 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
67 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
68 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
69 about thread locking.
70 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
71 - add ev_loop_depth.
72 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
73 for new events.
74 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
75 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
76 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
77 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
78 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
79 slightly higher accuracy.
80 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
81 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
82 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
83 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
84 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
85 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
86
873.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
88 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
89 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
7 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active 90 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
8 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop 91 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
9 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers 92 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
10 (reported by blacksand blacksand). 93 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
11 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 94 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
12 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 95 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
13 Malek Hadj-Ali). 96 Malek Hadj-Ali).
97 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
98 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
99 - add documentation section about priorites.
100 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
101 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
102 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
14 103
153.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 1043.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
16 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a 105 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
17 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali). 106 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
18 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall 107 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall

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