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Revision 1.299 by root, Tue Sep 9 21:51:35 2014 UTC vs.
Revision 1.364 by root, Wed Jan 22 17:11:33 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
6 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changes the priority of the signal
7 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
8 also used (found via cpan tester service).
9 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
10 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
11 (found by b_jonas).
12 - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
13 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
14 to ev++.h.
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 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
20 a monotonic clock.
21 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
22 such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
23 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
24 ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
25 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
26 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
27
284.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
29 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
30 waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
31 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
32 - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
33 can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
34 - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
35
364.30 (EV only)
37 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
38 LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
39 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
40 backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
41
424.29 (EV only)
43 - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
44 - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
45
464.28 (EV only)
47 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
48 when loop is forked.
49 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
50 multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
51 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
52 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
53 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
54 io_submit also returns EINTR.
55 - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
56 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
57 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
58 libecb counterparts.
59 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
60 - prepare io_uring integration.
61 - tweak ev_floor.
62 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
63 reslution now all try to round up times.
64 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
65 - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
66
674.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
68 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
69 limitations.
70 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
71 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
72 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
73 in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
74 user error.
75 - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
76 a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
77
784.26 (EV only)
79 - update to libecb 0x00010006.
80 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
81 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
82 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
83 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
84 - minor code cleanups.
85 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
86
874.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
88 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
89 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
90 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
91 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
92 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
93 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
94 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
95 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
96 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
97 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
98 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
99 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
100 in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
101 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
102
1034.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
104 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
105 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
106 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
107
1084.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
109 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
110 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
111 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
112
1134.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
114 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
115 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
116 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
117 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
118 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
119 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
120 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
121 - updated libecb.
122
1234.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
124 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
125 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
126 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
127 watcher callbacks.
128
1294.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
18 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than 130 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
19 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately, 131 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
20 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected 132 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
21 declarations have to spell out the types each time. 133 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
22 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related 134 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related

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