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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: ABI??? API????? Changes??? 34.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
4TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling 4 - linux aio backend almost complete rewritten to work around its
5 limitations.
6 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
7 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
8 in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
9 user error.
10 - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
11 a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
12
134.26 (EV only)
14 - update to libecb 0x00010006.
15 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
16 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
17 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
18 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
19 - minor code cleanups.
20 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
21
224.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
23 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
24 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
25 - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
26 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
27 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
28 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
29 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
30 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
31 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
32 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
33 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
34 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
35 in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
36 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
37
384.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
39 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
40 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
41 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
42
434.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
44 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
45 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
46 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
47
484.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
49 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
50 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
51 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
52 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
53 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
54 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
55 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
56 - updated libecb.
57
584.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
59 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
60 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
61 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
62 watcher callbacks.
63
644.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
65 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
66 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
67 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
68 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
69 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
70 functionality.
71
724.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
73 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
74 epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
75 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
76 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
77 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
78 when we can't detect the signal set size.
79 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
80 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
81 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
82 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
83 loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
84 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
85 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
86
874.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
88 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
89 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
90 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
91 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
92 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
93 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
94 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
95 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
96 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
97 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
98 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
99 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
100 be overfenced than underprotected.
101 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
102 still active).
103 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
104 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
105 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
106 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
107 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
108 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
109 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
110 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
111 in many cases.
112 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
113 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
114 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
115 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
116 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
117 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
118 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
119 Denis Bilenko).
120 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
121 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
122 the watcher base set (loop) method.
123 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
124 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
125 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
126 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
127 inotify-supporting filesystems.
128 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
129 versions ignore it before
130 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
131 - add some untested android support.
132 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
133
1344.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
136 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
137 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
138 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
139 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
140 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
141 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
142 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
143 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
144 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
145 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
146 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
147 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
148 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
149 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
150 as no external libraries are required.
151 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
152 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
153 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
154 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
155 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
156 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
157 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
158 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
159 static.
160 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
161 were empty.
162
1634.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
164 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
165 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
166 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
167 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
168 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
169 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
170 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
171
1724.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
173 - officially support polling files with all backends.
174 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
175 backend, by generating events on our own.
176 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
177 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
178 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
179 than that).
180 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
181 #ifdef to test for them.
182 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
183 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
184 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
185 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
186
1874.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
188 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
189 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
190 event.h on make install. grrr.
191 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
192 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
193 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
194
1954.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
5 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. 196 - "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 197 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
7 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). 198 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
199 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
200 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
201 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
202 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
8 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). 203 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
9 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. 204 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
205 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
206 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
207 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
208 did not work properly.
209 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
10 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). 210 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
211 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
212 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
213 even when there is nothing to set.
11 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, 214 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
215 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
12 this might help (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). 216 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
217 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
218 on freebsd...).
219 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
13 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still 220 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
14 override it. 221 override it.
222 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
223 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
15 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace 224 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
16 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported 225 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
17 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). 226 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
18 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code 227 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
19 in an obscure case. 228 in an obscure case.
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22 no sscanf dependency). 231 no sscanf dependency).
23 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. 232 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
24 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. 233 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
25 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. 234 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
26 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. 235 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
27 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify. 236 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
237 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
28 - switch to two-digit minor version. 238 - switch to two-digit minor version.
239 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
240 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
241 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
242 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
243 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
244 default arguments when compiled as C++.
245 - enable automake dependency tracking.
246 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
247 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
29 248
303.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 2493.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
31 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested 250 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
32 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to 251 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
33 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 252 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
34 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 253 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
35 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 254 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
36 - backport inotify code to C89. 255 - backport inotify code to C89.
37 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 256 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
38 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 257 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
39 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 258 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
40 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 259 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
41 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 260 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
42 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. 261 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
43 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 262 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
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49 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for 268 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
50 signalfd. 269 signalfd.
51 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). 270 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
52 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, 271 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
53 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might 272 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
54 have caused the probems with 04_stat.t. 273 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
55 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. 274 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
56 275
573.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 2763.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
58 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler 277 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
59 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. 278 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
60 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members, 279 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
61 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated 280 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
62 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. 281 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
63 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. 282 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
64 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified 283 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
65 state when using libev's signal handling. 284 state when using libev's signal handling.
66 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock 285 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
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101 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 320 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
102 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 321 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
103 Malek Hadj-Ali). 322 Malek Hadj-Ali).
104 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 323 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
105 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 324 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
106 - add documentation section about priorites. 325 - add documentation section about priorities.
107 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 326 - add a glossary to the documentation.
108 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 327 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
109 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 328 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
110 329
1113.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 3303.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
112 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a 331 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
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188 do similar changes for event.c. 407 do similar changes for event.c.
189 408
1903.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 4093.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
191 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken 410 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
192 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). 411 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
193 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers 412 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
194 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only 413 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
195 have a performance impact). 414 have a performance impact).
196 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both 415 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
197 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. 416 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
198 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. 417 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
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266 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. 485 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
267 - work around broken poll implementations potentially 486 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
268 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) 487 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
269 (no such systems are known at this time). 488 (no such systems are known at this time).
270 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, 489 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
271 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints 490 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
272 go away (noted by various people). 491 go away (noted by various people).
273 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async 492 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
274 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. 493 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
275 - add sensible set method to ev::embed. 494 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
276 - made integer constants type int in ev.h. 495 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
277 496
2783.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 4973.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
279 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, 498 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,

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