| 1 | Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. |
1 | Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. |
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| 3 | TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes??? |
3 | TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example? |
| 4 | TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling |
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| 5 | - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. |
4 | - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. |
| 6 | - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good |
5 | - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good |
| 7 | testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). |
6 | testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). |
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7 | - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it errornously |
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8 | didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire. |
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9 | - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire |
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10 | in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó). |
| 8 | - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). |
11 | - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). |
| 9 | - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. |
12 | - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. |
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13 | - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it |
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14 | seems the former is *much* faster than the latter. |
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15 | - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend. |
| 10 | - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). |
16 | - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). |
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17 | - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids |
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18 | an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API |
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19 | even when there is nothing to set. |
| 11 | - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, |
20 | - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, |
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21 | this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting |
| 12 | this might help (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). |
22 | not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). |
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23 | - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't |
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24 | on freebsd...). |
| 13 | - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still |
25 | - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still |
| 14 | override it. |
26 | override it. |
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27 | - greatly expanded the portability section. |
| 15 | - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace |
28 | - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace |
| 16 | and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported |
29 | and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported |
| 17 | and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). |
30 | and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). |
| 18 | - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code |
31 | - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code |
| 19 | in an obscure case. |
32 | in an obscure case. |
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| 24 | - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. |
37 | - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. |
| 25 | - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. |
38 | - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. |
| 26 | - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. |
39 | - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. |
| 27 | - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify. |
40 | - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify. |
| 28 | - switch to two-digit minor version. |
41 | - switch to two-digit minor version. |
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42 | - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug. |
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43 | - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so. |
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44 | - use enum instead of #define for most constants. |
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45 | - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers. |
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| 30 | 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 |
47 | 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 |
| 31 | - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested |
48 | - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested |
| 32 | explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to |
49 | explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to |
| 33 | catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. |
50 | catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. |
