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Revision 1.206 by root, Thu Nov 4 18:40:09 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.265 by root, Thu May 3 16:00:47 2012 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.
2 2
3TODO: ev_loop_wakeup
4TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone)
5
6TODO: document WSA_EV_USE_SOCKET in win32 part
7TODO: ^ OR use WSASend/WSARecv on the handle, which always works
8TODO: assert on fd watcher linked list pointing to itself
9TODO: faq, process a thing in each iteration
10TODO: abuse idle watchers for their side effect
11TODO: abuse check watchers for their side effect
12 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
13 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
14 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
15 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
16 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
17 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
18 some libevent 2.x funcitonality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
19 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
20 be overfenced than underprotected.
21 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
22 still active).
23 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
24 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
25 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
26 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
27 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
28 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
29 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
30 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
31
324.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
33 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
34 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
35 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
36 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
37 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
38 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
39 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
40 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
41 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
42 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
43 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
44 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
45 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
46 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
47 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
48 as no external libraries are required.
49 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
50 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
51 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
52 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
53 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
54 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
55 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
56 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
57 static.
58 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
59 were empty.
60
614.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
62 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
63 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
64 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
65 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
66 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
67 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
68 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
69
704.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
71 - officially support polling files with all backends.
72 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
73 backend, by generating events on our own.
74 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
75 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
76 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
77 than that).
78 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
79 #ifdef to test for them.
80 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
81 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
82 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
83 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
84
854.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
3 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough 86 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
4 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and 87 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
5 event.h on make install. grrr. 88 event.h on make install. grrr.
6 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn). 89 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
7 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers. 90 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
67 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. 150 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
68 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and 151 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
69 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. 152 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
70 - backport inotify code to C89. 153 - backport inotify code to C89.
71 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. 154 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
72 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, 155 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
73 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases 156 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
74 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). 157 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
75 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration 158 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
76 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. 159 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
77 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h 160 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
135 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and 218 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
136 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 219 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
137 Malek Hadj-Ali). 220 Malek Hadj-Ali).
138 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 221 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
139 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 222 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
140 - add documentation section about priorites. 223 - add documentation section about priorities.
141 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 224 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
142 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 225 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
143 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 226 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
144 227
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