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Revision 1.309 by root, Sun Dec 20 01:35:55 2015 UTC vs.
Revision 1.370 by root, Sat Jun 3 08:53:03 2023 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 5TODO: https://paste.debian.net/1268417/, stdfun
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: document requirements for function pointers and calling conventions.
16 6
174.22 7 - libev did not compile on systems lacking clock_gettime.
8 - due to a logic bug, timerfd availability did not always translate
9 into fewer wakeups - libev is now more aggressive in using
10 longer sleeps, even when timerfd is not in use.
11
124.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
13 - no changes w.r.t. 4.32.
14
154.32 (EV only)
16 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
17 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
18 also used (found via cpan tester service).
19 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
20 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
21 (found by b_jonas).
22 - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
23 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
24 to ev++.h.
25 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
26 work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
27 allowed before.
28 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
29 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
30 a monotonic clock.
31 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
32 such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
33 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
34 ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
35 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
36 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
37
384.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
39 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
40 waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
41 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
42 - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
43 can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
44 - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
45
464.30 (EV only)
47 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
48 LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
49 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
50 backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
51
524.29 (EV only)
53 - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
54 - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
55
564.28 (EV only)
57 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
58 when loop is forked.
59 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
60 multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
61 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
62 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
63 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
64 io_submit also returns EINTR.
65 - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
66 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
67 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
68 libecb counterparts.
69 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
70 - prepare io_uring integration.
71 - tweak ev_floor.
72 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
73 reslution now all try to round up times.
74 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
75 - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
76
774.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
78 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
79 limitations.
80 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
81 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
82 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
83 in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
84 user error.
85 - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
86 a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
87
884.26 (EV only)
89 - update to libecb 0x00010006.
90 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
91 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
92 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
93 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
94 - minor code cleanups.
95 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
96
974.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
98 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
99 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
100 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
101 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
102 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
103 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
104 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
105 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
106 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
107 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
108 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
109 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
110 in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
111 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
112
1134.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
114 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
115 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
116 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
117
1184.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
119 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
120 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
121 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
122
1234.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
18 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild 124 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
19 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid 125 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
20 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork, 126 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
21 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork 127 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
22 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler). 128 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).

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