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Revision 1.152 by root, Wed Nov 18 10:25:22 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.207 by root, Fri Nov 5 22:28:53 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.
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3TODO: somehow unblock procmask? 34.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
4 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
5 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
6 event.h on make install. grrr.
7 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
8 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
9 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
10
114.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
12 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
13 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
14 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
15 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
16 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
17 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
18 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
19 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
20 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
21 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
22 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
23 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
24 did not work properly.
25 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
26 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
27 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
28 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
29 even when there is nothing to set.
30 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
31 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
32 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
33 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
34 on freebsd...).
35 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
36 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
37 override it.
38 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
39 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
40 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
41 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
42 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
43 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
44 in an obscure case.
45 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
46 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
47 no sscanf dependency).
48 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
49 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
50 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
51 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
52 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
53 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
54 - switch to two-digit minor version.
55 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
56 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
57 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
58 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
59 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
60 default arguments when compiled as C++.
61 - enable automake dependency tracking.
62 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
63 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
64
653.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
66 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
67 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
68 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
69 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
70 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
4 - backport inotify code to C89. 71 - backport inotify code to C89.
5 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 72 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
6 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 73 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
7 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 74 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
8 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 75 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
9 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 76 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
10 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. 77 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
11 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 78 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
12 (patch by Didier Spezia). 79 (patch by Didier Spezia).
13 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation.
14 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock 80 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
15 on fd creation, to avoid races. 81 on fd creation, to avoid races.
16 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows 82 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
17 (analysed by lekma). 83 (analysed by lekma).
18 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for 84 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
19 signalfd. 85 signalfd.
20 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). 86 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
87 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
88 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
89 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
90 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
21 91
223.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 923.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
23 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler 93 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
24 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. 94 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
25 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members, 95 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
26 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated 96 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
27 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. 97 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
28 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. 98 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
29 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified 99 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
30 state when using libev's signal handling. 100 state when using libev's signal handling.
31 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock 101 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
153 do similar changes for event.c. 223 do similar changes for event.c.
154 224
1553.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 2253.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
156 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken 226 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
157 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). 227 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
158 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers 228 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
159 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only 229 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
160 have a performance impact). 230 have a performance impact).
161 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both 231 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
162 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. 232 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
163 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. 233 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
231 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. 301 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
232 - work around broken poll implementations potentially 302 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
233 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) 303 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
234 (no such systems are known at this time). 304 (no such systems are known at this time).
235 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, 305 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
236 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints 306 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
237 go away (noted by various people). 307 go away (noted by various people).
238 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async 308 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
239 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. 309 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
240 - add sensible set method to ev::embed. 310 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
241 - made integer constants type int in ev.h. 311 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
242 312
2433.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 3133.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
244 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, 314 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,

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