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Revision 1.39 by root, Sun May 11 11:47:27 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.118 by root, Mon Jun 29 18:46:52 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_walk
4TODO: child wactehr execution order w.r.t. childsigcb reg. priorities
5TODO: remain
6TODO: io_collect documentation
7 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
8 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
9 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
10 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
11 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
12 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
13 slightly higher accuracy.
14
153.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
16 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
17 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
18 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
19 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
20 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
21 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
22 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
23 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
24 Malek Hadj-Ali).
25 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
26 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
27 - add documentation section about priorites.
28 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
29 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
30 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
31
323.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
33 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
34 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
35 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
36 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
37 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
38 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
39 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
40
413.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
42 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
43 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
44 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
45 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
46 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
47 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
48 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
49 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
50 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
51 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
52 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
53 should return fantasy port numbers.
54 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
55 clearer diagnostics.
56 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
57 a useless string instead of the expected version string
58 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
59
603.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
61 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
62 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
63 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
64 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
65 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
66 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
67 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
68 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
69 automatically.
70 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
71 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
72 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
73 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
74 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
75 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
76 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
77 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
78 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
79 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
80
813.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
82 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
83 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
84 "known to be good" list.
85 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
86 (analysed by Roger Pack).
87 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
88 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
89 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
90 with their C compiler.
91
923.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
93 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
94 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
95 ADD fails with EEXIST.
96 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
97 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
98 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
99 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
100 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
101 init functions.
102 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
103 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
104 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
105 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
106 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
107 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
108 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
109 do similar changes for event.c.
110
1113.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
112 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
113 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
114 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
115 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
116 have a performance impact).
117 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
118 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
119 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
120
1213.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
122 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
123 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
124 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
125 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
126 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
127 - documentation tweaks here and there.
128
1293.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
130 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
131 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
132 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
133 Matt Tolton).
134
1353.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
136 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
137 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
138 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
139 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
140 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
141 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
142 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
143 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
144 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
145 reported by Matt Tolton.
146 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
147 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
148 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
149 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
150 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
151 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
152 and some other default values.
153
1543.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
155 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
156 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
157 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
4 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces 158 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
5 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency. 159 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
6 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use 160 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
7 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than 161 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
8 2-based heaps. 162 2-based heaps.
12 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again. 166 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
13 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at. 167 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
14 - improve ev_stat docs. 168 - improve ev_stat docs.
15 - add portability requirements section. 169 - add portability requirements section.
16 - fix manpage headers etc. 170 - fix manpage headers etc.
171 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
172 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
173 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
17 174
183.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008 1753.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
19 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black. 176 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
20 177
213.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008 1783.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008

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