--- libev/Changes 2010/03/27 02:26:27 1.174 +++ libev/Changes 2010/10/21 12:32:47 1.187 @@ -1,17 +1,32 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes??? -TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling +TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example? +TODO: section watcher states/lifetime +TODO: use enums //TODO: enum? - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). + - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it errornously + didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire. + - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire + in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó). - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. + - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it + seems the former is *much* faster than the latter. + - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend. - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). + - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids + an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API + even when there is nothing to set. - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, - this might help (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). + this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting + not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). + - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't + on freebsd...). - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still override it. + - greatly expanded the portability section. - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). @@ -26,6 +41,8 @@ - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify. - switch to two-digit minor version. + - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug. + - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so. 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested