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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: ev_loop_wakeup
4TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone)
5TODO: faq, process a thing in each iteration
6TODO: dbeugging tips, ev_verify, ev_init twice
7TODO: ev_break for immediate exit (EVBREAK_NOW?)
8TODO: ev_feed_child_event
9
10TODO: document the special problem of signals around fork.
11TODO: store pid for each signal
12TODO: document file descriptor usage per loop
13 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
14 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
15 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
16 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
17 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
18 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
19 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
20 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
21 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
22 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
23 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
24 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
25 be overfenced than underprotected.
26 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
27 still active).
28 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
29 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
30 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
31 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
32 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
33 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
34 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
35 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
36 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
37 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
38 - chose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
39 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
40 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
41 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
42 Denis Bilenko).
43 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
44 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
45 the watcher base set (loop) method.
46 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
47 simplifies (and hopefuly correctifies :) the race checking
48 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
49
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51 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
52 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
53 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
54 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
55 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
56 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
57 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
58 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
59 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
60 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
61 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
62 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
63 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
64 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
65 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
66 as no external libraries are required.
67 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
68 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
69 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
70 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
71 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
72 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
73 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
74 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
75 static.
76 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
77 were empty.
78
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80 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
81 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
82 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
83 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
84 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
85 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
86 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
87
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89 - officially support polling files with all backends.
90 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
91 backend, by generating events on our own.
92 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
93 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
94 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
95 than that).
96 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
97 #ifdef to test for them.
98 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
99 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
100 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
101 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
2 102
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4 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough 104 - 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 105 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
6 event.h on make install. grrr. 106 event.h on make install. grrr.
68 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 168 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
69 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 169 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
70 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 170 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
71 - backport inotify code to C89. 171 - backport inotify code to C89.
72 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 172 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
73 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 173 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
74 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 174 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
75 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 175 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
76 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 176 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
77 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. 177 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
78 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 178 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
136 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 236 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
137 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 237 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
138 Malek Hadj-Ali). 238 Malek Hadj-Ali).
139 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 239 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
140 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 240 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
141 - add documentation section about priorites. 241 - add documentation section about priorities.
142 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 242 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
143 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 243 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
144 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 244 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
145 245
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