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Revision 1.276 by root, Sun Jun 24 14:30:40 2012 UTC vs.
Revision 1.340 by root, Mon Jul 8 02:45:43 2019 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 3TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of mdoenr powersaving
4TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) 4TODO: maybe use timerfd to detect time jumps on linux
5TODO: faq, process a thing in each iteration 5 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
6TODO: dbeugging tips, ev_verify, ev_init twice 6 when loop is forked.
7 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
8 multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
9 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
10 io_asubmit also retursn EINTR.
11 - fix some othe rminor bugs in linuxaio backend.
12 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
13 libecb counterparts.
14 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
15 - prepare io_uring integration.
16 - tweak ev_floor.
7 17
8TODO: document the special problem of signals around fork. 184.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
9TODO: ev_feed_child_event 19 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
20 limitations.
21 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
22 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
23 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
24 in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
25 user error.
26 - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
27 a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
28
294.26 (EV only)
30 - update to libecb 0x00010006.
31 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
32 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
33 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
34 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
35 - minor code cleanups.
36 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
37
384.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
39 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
40 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
41 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
42 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
43 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
44 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
45 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
46 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
47 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
48 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
49 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
50 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
51 in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
52 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
53
544.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
55 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
56 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
57 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
58
594.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
60 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
61 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
62 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
63
644.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
65 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
66 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
67 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
68 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
69 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
70 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
71 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
72 - updated libecb.
73
744.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
75 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
76 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
77 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
78 watcher callbacks.
79
804.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
81 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
82 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
83 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
84 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
85 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
86 functionality.
87
884.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
89 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
90 epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
91 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
92 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
93 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
94 when we can't detect the signal set size.
95 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
96 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
97 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
98 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
99 loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
100 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
101 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
102
1034.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
10 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid 104 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
11 watcher (Denis Bilenko). 105 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
12 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes 106 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
13 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko). 107 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
14 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for 108 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
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27 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride). 121 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
28 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov). 122 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
29 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber). 123 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
30 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking 124 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
31 the kqueue descriptor in the child. 125 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
126 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
127 in many cases.
32 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h. 128 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
33 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most 129 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
34 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start. 130 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
35 - chose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET. 131 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
36 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this 132 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
37 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...). 133 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
38 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by 134 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
39 Denis Bilenko). 135 Denis Bilenko).
40 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc. 136 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
41 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing 137 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
42 the watcher base set (loop) method. 138 the watcher base set (loop) method.
139 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
140 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
141 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
142 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
143 inotify-supporting filesystems.
144 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
145 versions ignore it before
146 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
147 - add some untested android support.
148 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
43 149
444.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 1504.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
45 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as 151 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
46 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case. 152 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
47 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS. 153 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
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231 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by 337 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
232 Malek Hadj-Ali). 338 Malek Hadj-Ali).
233 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. 339 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
234 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. 340 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
235 - add documentation section about priorities. 341 - add documentation section about priorities.
236 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. 342 - add a glossary to the documentation.
237 - extend the ev_fork description slightly. 343 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
238 - optimize a jump out of call_pending. 344 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
239 345
2403.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 3463.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
241 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a 347 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a

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