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Revision 1.208 by root, Wed Nov 10 14:36:42 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.311 by root, Thu Feb 18 04:48:23 2016 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: move some other examples to common idioms? combining watchers, 3TODO: ev_loop_wakeup
4thread usage, coroutine switch? 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
9TODO: document the special problem of signals around fork.
10TODO: store pid for each signal
11TODO: document file descriptor usage per loop
12TODO: store loop pid_t and compare isndie signal handler,store 1 for same, 2 for differign pid, clean up in loop_fork
13TODO: embed watchers need updating when fd changes
14TODO: document portability requirements for atomic pointer access
15TODO: document requirements for function pointers and calling conventions.
16
17 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
18 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
19 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
20
214.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
22 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
23 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
24 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
25 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
26 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
27 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
28 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
29 - updated libecb.
30
314.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
32 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
33 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
34 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
35 watcher callbacks.
36
374.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
38 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
39 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
40 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
41 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
42 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
43 functionality.
44
454.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
46 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
47 epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
48 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
49 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
50 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
51 when we can't detect the signal set size.
52 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
53 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
54 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
55 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
56 loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
57 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
58 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
59
604.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
61 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
62 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
63 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
64 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
65 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
66 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
67 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
68 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
69 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
70 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
71 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
72 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
73 be overfenced than underprotected.
74 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
75 still active).
76 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
77 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
78 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
79 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
80 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
81 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
82 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
83 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
84 in many cases.
85 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
86 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
87 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
88 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
89 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
90 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
91 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
92 Denis Bilenko).
93 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
94 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
95 the watcher base set (loop) method.
96 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
97 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
98 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
99 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
100 inotify-supporting filesystems.
101 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
102 versions ignore it before
103 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
104 - add some untested android support.
105 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
106
1074.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
108 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
109 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
110 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
111 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
112 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
113 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
114 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
115 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
116 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
117 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
118 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
119 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
120 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
121 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
122 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
123 as no external libraries are required.
124 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
125 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
126 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
127 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
128 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
129 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
130 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
131 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
132 static.
133 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
134 were empty.
135
1364.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
137 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
138 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
139 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
140 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
141 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
142 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
143 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
144
1454.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
146 - officially support polling files with all backends.
147 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
148 backend, by generating events on our own.
149 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
150 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
151 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
152 than that).
153 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
154 #ifdef to test for them.
155 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
156 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
157 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
158 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
5 159
64.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010 1604.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
7 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough 161 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
8 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and 162 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
9 event.h on make install. grrr. 163 event.h on make install. grrr.
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71 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 225 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
72 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 226 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
73 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 227 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
74 - backport inotify code to C89. 228 - backport inotify code to C89.
75 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 229 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
76 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 230 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
77 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 231 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
78 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 232 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
79 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 233 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
80 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. 234 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
81 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 235 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
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139 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 293 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
140 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 294 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
141 Malek Hadj-Ali). 295 Malek Hadj-Ali).
142 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 296 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
143 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 297 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
144 - add documentation section about priorites. 298 - add documentation section about priorities.
145 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 299 - add a glossary to the documentation.
146 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 300 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
147 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 301 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
148 302
1493.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 3033.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
150 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a 304 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a

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