1 | Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. |
1 | Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. |
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3 | TODO: ev_loop_wakeup |
3 | TODO: for next ABI/API change, consider moving EV__IOFDSSET into io->fd instead and provide a getter. |
4 | TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) |
4 | TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T |
5 | TODO: faq, process a thing in each iteration |
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6 | TODO: dbeugging tips, ev_verify, ev_init twice |
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7 | TODO: ev_break for immediate exit (EVBREAK_NOW?) |
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8 | TODO: ev_feed_child_event |
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10 | TODO: document the special problem of signals around fork. |
6 | - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changes the priority of the signal |
11 | TODO: store pid for each signal |
7 | fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are |
12 | TODO: document file descriptor usage per loop |
8 | also used (found via cpan tester service). |
13 | TODO: store loop pid_t and compare isndie signal handler,store 1 for same, 2 for differign pid, clean up in loop_fork |
9 | - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events |
14 | TODO: embed watchers need updating when fd changes |
10 | members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped |
15 | TODO: document portbaility requirements for atomic pointer access |
11 | (found by b_jonas). |
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12 | - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member, |
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13 | which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method |
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14 | to ev++.h. |
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15 | - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should |
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16 | work with older libev versions as well but was not officially |
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17 | allowed before. |
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18 | - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps. |
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19 | - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have |
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20 | a monotonic clock. |
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21 | - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations, |
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22 | such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled. |
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23 | - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in |
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24 | ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y. |
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25 | - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default. |
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26 | - update to libecb version 0x00010008. |
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28 | 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019 |
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29 | - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not |
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30 | waiting in the presence of already-expired timers |
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31 | (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper). |
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32 | - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly, |
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33 | can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag. |
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34 | - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro. |
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36 | 4.30 (EV only) |
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37 | - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing |
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38 | LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find. |
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39 | - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong |
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40 | backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases. |
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42 | 4.29 (EV only) |
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43 | - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection. |
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44 | - disable io_uring when some header files are too old. |
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46 | 4.28 (EV only) |
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47 | - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption |
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48 | when loop is forked. |
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49 | - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb |
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50 | multiple times (was unable to trigger this). |
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51 | - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to |
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52 | avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests. |
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53 | - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume |
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54 | io_submit also returns EINTR. |
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55 | - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend. |
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56 | - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T. |
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57 | - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their |
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58 | libecb counterparts. |
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59 | - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c. |
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60 | - prepare io_uring integration. |
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61 | - tweak ev_floor. |
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62 | - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond |
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63 | reslution now all try to round up times. |
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64 | - solaris port backend didn't compile. |
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65 | - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility. |
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67 | 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019 |
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68 | - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its |
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69 | limitations. |
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70 | - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+. |
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71 | - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend. |
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72 | - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected |
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73 | in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of |
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74 | user error. |
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75 | - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using |
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76 | a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher. |
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78 | 4.26 (EV only) |
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79 | - update to libecb 0x00010006. |
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80 | - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+). |
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81 | - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once. |
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82 | - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation. |
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83 | - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit. |
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84 | - minor code cleanups. |
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85 | - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork. |
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87 | 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018 |
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88 | - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT |
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89 | (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer. |
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90 | - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of |
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91 | darwin managed to break their broken select even more. |
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92 | - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com). |
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93 | - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files |
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94 | and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com). |
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95 | - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32. |
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96 | - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications. |
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97 | - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class. |
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98 | - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested. |
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99 | - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence |
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100 | in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64. |
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101 | - minor autoconf/automake modernisation. |
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103 | 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016 |
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104 | - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably |
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105 | didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged |
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106 | version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska). |
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108 | 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016 |
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109 | - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded |
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110 | microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims |
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111 | otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov). |
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113 | 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015 |
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114 | - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild |
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115 | only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid |
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116 | SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork, |
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117 | so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork |
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118 | (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler). |
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119 | - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32 |
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120 | (analyzed by Jason Madden). |
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121 | - updated libecb. |
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123 | 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015 |
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124 | - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11. |
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125 | - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11. |
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126 | - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing |
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127 | watcher callbacks. |
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129 | 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014 |
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130 | - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than |
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131 | clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately, |
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132 | C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected |
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133 | declarations have to spell out the types each time. |
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134 | - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related |
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135 | functionality. |
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137 | 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014 |
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138 | - events on files were not always generated properly with the |
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139 | epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal). |
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140 | - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin). |
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141 | - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat). |
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142 | - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out |
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143 | when we can't detect the signal set size. |
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144 | - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall |
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145 | on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems |
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146 | doing clock_gettime in userspace). |
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147 | - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible |
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148 | loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet). |
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149 | - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being |
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150 | broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble). |
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152 | 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013 |
16 | - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid |
153 | - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid |
17 | watcher (Denis Bilenko). |
154 | watcher (Denis Bilenko). |
18 | - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes |
155 | - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes |
19 | them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko). |
156 | them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko). |
20 | - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for |
157 | - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for |
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38 | - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories |
175 | - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories |
39 | in many cases. |
176 | in many cases. |
40 | - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h. |
177 | - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h. |
41 | - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most |
178 | - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most |
42 | common reported usage bug in ev_io_start. |
179 | common reported usage bug in ev_io_start. |
43 | - chose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET. |
180 | - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET. |
44 | - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this |
181 | - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this |
45 | works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...). |
182 | works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...). |
46 | - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by |
183 | - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by |
47 | Denis Bilenko). |
184 | Denis Bilenko). |
48 | - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc. |
185 | - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc. |
49 | - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing |
186 | - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing |
50 | the watcher base set (loop) method. |
187 | the watcher base set (loop) method. |
51 | - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which |
188 | - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which |
52 | simplifies (and hopefuly correctifies :) the race checking |
189 | simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking |
53 | on fork, at the cost of one extra fd. |
190 | on fork, at the cost of one extra fd. |
54 | - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of |
191 | - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of |
55 | inotify-supporting filesystems. |
192 | inotify-supporting filesystems. |
56 | - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf |
193 | - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf |
57 | versions ignore it before |
194 | versions ignore it before |
58 | (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096). |
195 | (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096). |
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196 | - add some untested android support. |
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197 | - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L). |
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60 | 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 |
199 | 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 |
61 | - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as |
200 | - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as |
62 | was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case. |
201 | was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case. |
63 | - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS. |
202 | - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS. |
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247 | reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by |
386 | reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by |
248 | Malek Hadj-Ali). |
387 | Malek Hadj-Ali). |
249 | - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. |
388 | - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. |
250 | - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. |
389 | - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. |
251 | - add documentation section about priorities. |
390 | - add documentation section about priorities. |
252 | - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. |
391 | - add a glossary to the documentation. |
253 | - extend the ev_fork description slightly. |
392 | - extend the ev_fork description slightly. |
254 | - optimize a jump out of call_pending. |
393 | - optimize a jump out of call_pending. |
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256 | 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 |
395 | 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 |
257 | - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a |
396 | - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a |