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Revision 1.203 by root, Thu Oct 28 04:55:19 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.263 by root, Tue May 1 22:01:40 2012 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_loop_wakeup
4TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone)
5
6TODO: document WSA_EV_USE_SOCKET in win32 part
7TODO: ^ OR use WSASend/WSARecv on the handle, which always works
8TODO: assert on fd watcher linked list pointing to itself
9 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
10 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
11 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
12 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
13 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
14 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
15 some libevent 2.x funcitonality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
16 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
17 be overfenced than underprotected.
18 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
19 still active).
20 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
21 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
22 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
23 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
24 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
25 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
26 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
27 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
28
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30 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
31 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
32 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
33 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
34 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
35 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
36 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
37 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
38 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
39 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
40 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
41 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
42 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
43 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
44 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
45 as no external libraries are required.
46 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
47 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
48 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
49 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
50 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
51 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
52 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
53 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
54 static.
55 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
56 were empty.
57
584.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
59 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
60 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
61 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
62 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
63 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
64 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
65 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
66
674.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
68 - officially support polling files with all backends.
69 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
70 backend, by generating events on our own.
71 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
72 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
73 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
74 than that).
75 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
76 #ifdef to test for them.
77 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
78 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
79 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
80 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
81
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83 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
84 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
85 event.h on make install. grrr.
86 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
3 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers. 87 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
88 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
4 89
54.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010 904.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
6 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. 91 - "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 92 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
8 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). 93 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
62 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 147 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
63 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 148 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
64 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 149 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
65 - backport inotify code to C89. 150 - backport inotify code to C89.
66 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 151 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
67 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 152 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
68 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 153 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
69 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 154 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
70 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 155 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
71 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. 156 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
72 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 157 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
130 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 215 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
131 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 216 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
132 Malek Hadj-Ali). 217 Malek Hadj-Ali).
133 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 218 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
134 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 219 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
135 - add documentation section about priorites. 220 - add documentation section about priorities.
136 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 221 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
137 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 222 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
138 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 223 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
139 224
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