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Revision 1.167 by root, Tue Mar 16 00:43:22 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.174 by root, Sat Mar 27 02:26:27 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.
2 2
3TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes??? 3TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes???
4TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling
5 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
4 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good 6 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
5 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). 7 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
6 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). 8 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
7 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. 9 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
8 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). 10 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
11 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
12 this might help (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
9 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still 13 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
10 override it. 14 override it.
11 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace 15 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
12 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported 16 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
13 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). 17 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
15 in an obscure case. 19 in an obscure case.
16 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option. 20 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
17 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster, 21 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
18 no sscanf dependency). 22 no sscanf dependency).
19 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. 23 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
20 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newwer glibcs. 24 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
21 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. 25 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
26 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
27 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify.
28 - switch to two-digit minor version.
22 29
233.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 303.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
24 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested 31 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
25 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to 32 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
26 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 33 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.

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