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Revision 1.299 by root, Tue Sep 9 21:51:35 2014 UTC vs.
Revision 1.360 by root, Wed Jan 22 13:06:53 2020 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.
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3TODO: ev_loop_wakeup 3TODO: for next ABI/API change, consider moving EV__IOFDSSET into io->fd instead and provide a getter.
4TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) 4TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
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.
17 5
6TODO: maybe allow events = 0 for io watchers
7 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changes the priority of the signal
8 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
9 also used (found via cpan tester service).
10 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
11 members in io watchers when the wqatcher was stopped
12 (found by b_jonas).
13 - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
14 which can be faster.
15 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
16 work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
17 allowed before.
18 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
19 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
20 such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
21 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
22 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
23
244.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
25 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
26 waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
27 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
28 - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
29 can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
30 - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
31
324.30 (EV only)
33 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
34 LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
35 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
36 backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
37
384.29 (EV only)
39 - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
40 - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
41
424.28 (EV only)
43 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
44 when loop is forked.
45 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
46 multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
47 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
48 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
49 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
50 io_submit also returns EINTR.
51 - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
52 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
53 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
54 libecb counterparts.
55 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
56 - prepare io_uring integration.
57 - tweak ev_floor.
58 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
59 reslution now all try to round up times.
60 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
61 - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
62
634.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
64 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
65 limitations.
66 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
67 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
68 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
69 in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
70 user error.
71 - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
72 a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
73
744.26 (EV only)
75 - update to libecb 0x00010006.
76 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
77 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
78 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
79 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
80 - minor code cleanups.
81 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
82
834.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
84 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
85 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
86 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
87 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
88 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
89 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
90 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
91 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
92 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
93 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
94 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
95 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
96 in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
97 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
98
994.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
100 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
101 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
102 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
103
1044.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
105 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
106 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
107 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
108
1094.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
110 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
111 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
112 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
113 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
114 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
115 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
116 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
117 - updated libecb.
118
1194.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
120 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
121 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
122 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
123 watcher callbacks.
124
1254.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
18 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than 126 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
19 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately, 127 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
20 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected 128 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
21 declarations have to spell out the types each time. 129 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
22 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related 130 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related

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