--- libev/Changes 2009/11/18 10:25:22 1.152 +++ libev/Changes 2010/03/29 12:40:57 1.176 @@ -1,6 +1,42 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -TODO: somehow unblock procmask? +TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes??? +TODO: win32 write() to socket for signal handling +TODO: poll asert + - "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). + - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). + - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. + - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). + - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, + 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. + - 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). + - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code + in an obscure case. + - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option. + - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster, + no sscanf dependency). + - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. + - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. + - add section on accept() problems to the manpage. + - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. + - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify. + - switch to two-digit minor version. + +3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 + - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested + explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to + catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. + - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and + that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. - backport inotify code to C89. - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, @@ -10,7 +46,6 @@ symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h (patch by Didier Spezia). - - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation. - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid races. - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows @@ -18,6 +53,10 @@ - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd. - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). + - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, + so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might + have caused the probems with 04_stat.t. + - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler