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Revision 1.18 by root, Wed Apr 2 10:55:39 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.83 by root, Mon Nov 3 14:27:06 2008 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.
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33.2 3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections?
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5 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
6 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
7 "known to be good" list.
8
93.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
10 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
11 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
12 ADD fails with EEXIST.
13 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
14 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
15 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
16 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
17 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
18 init functions.
19 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
20 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
21 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
22 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
23 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
24 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
25 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
26 do similar changes for event.c.
27
283.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
29 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
30 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
31 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
32 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
33 have a performance impact).
34 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
35 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
36 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
37
383.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
39 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
40 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
41 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
42 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
43 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
44 - documentation tweaks here and there.
45
463.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
47 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
48 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
49 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
50 Matt Tolton).
51
523.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
53 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
54 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
55 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
56 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
57 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
58 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
59 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
60 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
61 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
62 reported by Matt Tolton.
63 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
64 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
65 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
66 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
67 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
68 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
69 and some other default values.
70
713.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
72 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
73 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
74 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
75 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
76 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
77 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
78 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
79 2-based heaps.
80 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
81 memory accesses.
82 - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
83 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
84 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
85 - improve ev_stat docs.
86 - add portability requirements section.
87 - fix manpage headers etc.
88 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
89 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
90 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
91
923.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
93 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
94
953.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
96 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
97 (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
98 - added linux eventfd support.
99 - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
100 by libc header version if not using autoconf.
101 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
102 - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
103 C99 or gcc are available.
104 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
105 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
106 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
107 (no such systems are known at this time).
108 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
109 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
110 go away (noted by various people).
111 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
112 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
113 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
114 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
115
1163.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
4 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, 117 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
5 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask. 118 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
6 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls. 119 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
7 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING 120 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
8 flags of any outer loops anymore. 121 flags of any outer loops anymore.

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