--- libev/Changes 2010/10/25 10:30:23 1.201 +++ libev/Changes 2012/05/29 19:10:39 1.273 @@ -1,5 +1,102 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. +TODO: ev_loop_wakeup +TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) +TODO: faq, process a thing in each iteration +TODO: dbeugging tips, ev_verify, ev_init twice + +TODO: ev_feed_child_event + - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid + watcher (Denis Bilenko). + - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes + them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko). + - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for + further code size decrease when compiling for C++. + - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator, + syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs). + - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new, + event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add + some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey). + - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better + be overfenced than underprotected. + - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are + still active). + - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with + libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919). + - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride). + - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov). + - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber). + - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking + the kqueue descriptor in the child. + - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h. + - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most + common reported usage bug in ev_io_start. + - chose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET. + - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this + works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...). + +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 + to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and + event.h on make install. grrr. + - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn). + - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers. + - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now. + +4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). @@ -61,7 +158,7 @@ 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 @@ -129,7 +226,7 @@ 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.