--- libev/Changes 2008/04/09 22:33:55 1.24 +++ libev/Changes 2008/10/21 20:52:30 1.70 @@ -1,9 +1,76 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. +WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? +3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 + - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken + (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). + - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers + even when inotify wasn't available (this should only + have a performance impact). + - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both + occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. + - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. + +3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 + - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the + embedded loop when the parent loop forks. + - new function: ev_now_update (loop). + - verify_watcher was not marked static. + - improve the "associating..." manpage section. + - documentation tweaks here and there. + +3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008 + - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64 + (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue). + - add missing #include in ev.c on windows (reported by + Matt Tolton). + +3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008 + - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's + multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming + otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton. + - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile + (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert). + - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch + programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton. + - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors + under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles). + reported by Matt Tolton. + - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows. + - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows + is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that + switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't + have oob, so that would be stupid anyways. + - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence + and some other default values. + +3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008 + - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you + provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky. + - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon. + - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces + codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency. + - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use + of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than + 2-based heaps. + - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random + memory accesses. + - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT. + - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again. + - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at. + - improve ev_stat docs. + - add portability requirements section. + - fix manpage headers etc. + - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows. + - add consistency check code that can be called automatically + or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify). + +3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008 + - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black. + +3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success (W.C.A. Wijngaards). - - work around poll() potentially not clearing revents - field in ev_poll (Brandon Black). - added linux eventfd support. - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support by libc header version if not using autoconf. @@ -11,9 +78,16 @@ - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if C99 or gcc are available. - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. + - work around broken poll implementations potentially + not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) + (no such systems are known at this time). - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, also makes the errornous valgrind complaints go away (noted by various people). + - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async + (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. + - add sensible set method to ev::embed. + - made integer constants type int in ev.h. 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,