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Revision 1.203 by root, Thu Oct 28 04:55:19 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.320 by root, Fri Dec 21 06:54:30 2018 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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34.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
4 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
5 (EV_THROW sitll provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
6 - move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
7 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
8 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
9 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
10 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
11 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
12 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
13 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
14 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
15
164.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
17 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
18 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
19 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
20
214.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
22 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
23 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
24 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
25
264.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
27 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
28 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
29 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
30 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
31 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
32 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
33 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
34 - updated libecb.
35
364.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
37 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
38 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
39 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
40 watcher callbacks.
41
424.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
43 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
44 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
45 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
46 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
47 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
48 functionality.
49
504.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
51 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
52 epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
53 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
54 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
55 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
56 when we can't detect the signal set size.
57 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
58 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
59 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
60 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
61 loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
62 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
63 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
64
654.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
66 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
67 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
68 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
69 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
70 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
71 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
72 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
73 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
74 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
75 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
76 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
77 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
78 be overfenced than underprotected.
79 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
80 still active).
81 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
82 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
83 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
84 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
85 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
86 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
87 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
88 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
89 in many cases.
90 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
91 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
92 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
93 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
94 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
95 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
96 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
97 Denis Bilenko).
98 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
99 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
100 the watcher base set (loop) method.
101 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
102 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
103 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
104 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
105 inotify-supporting filesystems.
106 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
107 versions ignore it before
108 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
109 - add some untested android support.
110 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
111
1124.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
113 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
114 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
115 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
116 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
117 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
118 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
119 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
120 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
121 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
122 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
123 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
124 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
125 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
126 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
127 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
128 as no external libraries are required.
129 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
130 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
131 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
132 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
133 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
134 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
135 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
136 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
137 static.
138 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
139 were empty.
140
1414.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
142 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
143 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
144 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
145 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
146 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
147 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
148 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
149
1504.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
151 - officially support polling files with all backends.
152 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
153 backend, by generating events on our own.
154 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
155 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
156 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
157 than that).
158 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
159 #ifdef to test for them.
160 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
161 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
162 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
163 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
164
1654.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
166 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
167 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
168 event.h on make install. grrr.
169 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
3 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers. 170 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
171 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
4 172
54.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010 1734.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
6 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. 174 - "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 175 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
8 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). 176 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
62 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 230 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
63 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 231 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
64 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 232 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
65 - backport inotify code to C89. 233 - backport inotify code to C89.
66 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 234 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
67 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 235 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
68 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 236 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
69 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 237 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
70 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 238 - 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. 239 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
72 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 240 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
130 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 298 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
131 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 299 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
132 Malek Hadj-Ali). 300 Malek Hadj-Ali).
133 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 301 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
134 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 302 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
135 - add documentation section about priorites. 303 - add documentation section about priorities.
136 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 304 - add a glossary to the documentation.
137 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 305 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
138 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 306 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
139 307
1403.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 3083.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
141 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a 309 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a

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