--- libev/Changes 2010/12/05 10:12:24 1.209 +++ libev/Changes 2012/02/04 19:09:28 1.251 @@ -1,10 +1,60 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -TODO: move some other examples to common idioms? combining watchers, -thread usage, coroutine switch? +TODO: ev_loop_wakeup +TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) +4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as + was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case. + - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS. + - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs + caused signals to not be handled anymore. + - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows + specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both + select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions. + - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep. + - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset. + - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :) + - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more + exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future. + - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our + own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed, + as no external libraries are required. + - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions + as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups). + - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing. + - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now). + - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when + timeout == now, also improve the section overall. + - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom. + - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols + static. + - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS + were empty. + +4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011 + - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's + with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed + or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder). + - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c. + - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3. + - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when + they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt). + +4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011 + - officially support polling files with all backends. + - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll + backend, by generating events on our own. + - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones + (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris + bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken + than that). - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use #ifdef to test for them. + - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal. + - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag. + - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol. + - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION. 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough @@ -76,7 +126,7 @@ that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. - backport inotify code to C89. - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. - - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, + - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop, preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration @@ -144,7 +194,7 @@ Malek Hadj-Ali). - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. - - add documentation section about priorites. + - add documentation section about priorities. - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. - extend the ev_fork description slightly. - optimize a jump out of call_pending.