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Revision 1.39 by root, Sun May 11 11:47:27 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.106 by root, Wed Apr 15 17:49:26 2009 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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33.33 3TODO: ev_time_freeze, ev_time_thaw
4TODO: ev_walk
5TODO: ev_stop_all
6TODO: fix signal handling(?) under win32
73.54
8 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
9 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
10 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
11 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
12 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
13 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
14 Malek Hadj-Ali).
15 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
16
173.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
18 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
19 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
20 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
21 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
22 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
23 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
24 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
25
263.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
27 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
28 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
29 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
30 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
31 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
32 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
33 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
34 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
35 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
36 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
37 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
38 should return fantasy port numbers.
39 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
40 clearer diagnostics.
41 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
42 a useless string instead of the expected version string
43 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
44
453.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
46 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
47 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
48 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
49 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
50 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
51 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
52 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
53 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
54 automatically.
55 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
56 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
57 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
58 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
59 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
60 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
61 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
62 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
63 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
64 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
65
663.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
67 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
68 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
69 "known to be good" list.
70 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
71 (analysed by Roger Pack).
72 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
73 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
74 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
75 with their C compiler.
76
773.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
78 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
79 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
80 ADD fails with EEXIST.
81 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
82 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
83 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
84 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
85 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
86 init functions.
87 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
88 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
89 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
90 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
91 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
92 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
93 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
94 do similar changes for event.c.
95
963.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
97 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
98 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
99 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
100 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
101 have a performance impact).
102 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
103 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
104 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
105
1063.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
107 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
108 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
109 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
110 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
111 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
112 - documentation tweaks here and there.
113
1143.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
115 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
116 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
117 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
118 Matt Tolton).
119
1203.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
121 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
122 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
123 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
124 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
125 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
126 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
127 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
128 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
129 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
130 reported by Matt Tolton.
131 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
132 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
133 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
134 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
135 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
136 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
137 and some other default values.
138
1393.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
140 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
141 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
142 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
4 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces 143 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
5 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency. 144 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
6 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use 145 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
7 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than 146 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
8 2-based heaps. 147 2-based heaps.
12 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again. 151 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
13 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at. 152 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
14 - improve ev_stat docs. 153 - improve ev_stat docs.
15 - add portability requirements section. 154 - add portability requirements section.
16 - fix manpage headers etc. 155 - fix manpage headers etc.
156 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
157 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
158 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
17 159
183.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008 1603.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
19 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black. 161 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
20 162
213.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008 1633.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008

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