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Revision 1.124 by root, Fri Jul 10 19:10:19 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.176 by root, Mon Mar 29 12:40:57 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: ev_walk 3TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes???
4TODO: remain 4TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling
5TODO: on_call_pending, on_suspend_resume ev_invoke_pending (EV_P) 5TODO: poll asert
6TODO: EV_MINIMAL 6 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
7 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
8 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
9 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
10 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
11 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
12 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
13 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
14 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
15 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
16 on freebsd...).
17 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
18 override it.
19 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
20 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
21 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
22 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
23 in an obscure case.
24 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
25 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
26 no sscanf dependency).
27 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
28 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
29 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
30 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
31 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify.
32 - switch to two-digit minor version.
33
343.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
35 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
36 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
37 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
38 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
39 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
40 - backport inotify code to C89.
41 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
42 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
43 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
44 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
45 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
46 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
47 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
48 (patch by Didier Spezia).
49 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
50 on fd creation, to avoid races.
51 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
52 (analysed by lekma).
53 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
54 signalfd.
55 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
56 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
57 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
58 have caused the probems with 04_stat.t.
59 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
60
613.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
62 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
63 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
64 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
65 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
66 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
67 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
68 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
69 state when using libev's signal handling.
70 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
71 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
72
733.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
7 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, 74 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
8 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). 75 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
76 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
77 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
78 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
79 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
80 about thread locking.
81 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
82 - add ev_loop_depth.
9 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll 83 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
10 for new events. 84 for new events.
11 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. 85 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
12 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
13 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- 86 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
14 check that the syscall number is available before trying to 87 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
15 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). 88 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
16 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for 89 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
17 slightly higher accuracy. 90 slightly higher accuracy.
18 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when 91 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
19 !EV_MULTIPLICITY. 92 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
20 - implement ev_loop_depth.
21 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. 93 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
22 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. 94 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
95 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
96 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
23 97
243.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009 983.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
25 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration 99 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
26 will be invoked in the "correct" order now. 100 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
27 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active 101 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active

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