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Revision 1.257 by root, Mon Apr 2 23:46:27 2012 UTC vs.
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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 3TODO: ev_loop_wakeup
4TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) 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: possible cb aliasing?
16TODO: document requirements for function pointers and calling conventions.
5 17
6TODO: document WSA_EV_USE_SOCKET in win32 part 184.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
7TODO: ^ OR use WSASend/WSARecv on the handle, which always works 19 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
20 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
21 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
22 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
23 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
24 functionality.
8 25
264.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
27 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
28 epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
29 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
30 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
31 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
32 when we can't detect the signal set size.
33 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
34 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
35 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
36 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
37 loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
38 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
39 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
40
414.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
42 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
43 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
44 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
45 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
46 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
47 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
48 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
49 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
9 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new, 50 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
10 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add 51 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
11 some libevent 2.x funcitonality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey). 52 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
53 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
54 be overfenced than underprotected.
12 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are 55 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
13 still active). 56 still active).
14 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with 57 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
15 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919). 58 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
16 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride). 59 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
17 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov). 60 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
61 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
18 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking 62 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
19 the kqueue descriptor in the child. 63 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
64 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
65 in many cases.
66 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
67 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
68 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
69 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
70 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
71 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
72 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
73 Denis Bilenko).
74 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
75 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
76 the watcher base set (loop) method.
77 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
78 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
79 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
80 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
81 inotify-supporting filesystems.
82 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
83 versions ignore it before
84 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
85 - add some untested android support.
86 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
20 87
214.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 884.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
22 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as 89 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
23 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case. 90 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
24 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS. 91 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
208 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 275 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
209 Malek Hadj-Ali). 276 Malek Hadj-Ali).
210 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 277 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
211 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 278 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
212 - add documentation section about priorities. 279 - add documentation section about priorities.
213 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 280 - add a glossary to the documentation.
214 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 281 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
215 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 282 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
216 283
2173.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 2843.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
218 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a 285 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a

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