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Revision 1.42 by root, Wed May 21 23:35:01 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.133 by root, Sun Jul 19 01:36:34 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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33.4 3TODO: ev_walk
4TODO: signal handling per loop
5TODO: signalfd
6
7TODO: document signalfd procmask
8 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
9 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
10 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
11 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
12 state when using libev's signal handling.
13
143.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
15 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
16 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
17 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
18 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
19 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
20 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
21 about thread locking.
22 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
23 - add ev_loop_depth.
24 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
25 for new events.
26 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
27 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
28 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
29 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
30 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
31 slightly higher accuracy.
32 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
33 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
34 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
35 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
36 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
37 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
38
393.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
40 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
41 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
42 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
43 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
44 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
45 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
46 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
47 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
48 Malek Hadj-Ali).
49 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
50 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
51 - add documentation section about priorites.
52 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
53 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
54 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
55
563.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
57 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
58 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
59 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
60 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
61 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
62 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
63 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
64
653.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
66 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
67 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
68 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
69 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
70 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
71 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
72 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
73 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
74 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
75 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
76 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
77 should return fantasy port numbers.
78 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
79 clearer diagnostics.
80 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
81 a useless string instead of the expected version string
82 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
83
843.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
85 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
86 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
88 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
89 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
90 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
91 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
92 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
93 automatically.
94 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
95 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
96 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
97 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
98 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
99 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
100 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
101 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
102 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
103 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
104
1053.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
106 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
107 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
108 "known to be good" list.
109 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
110 (analysed by Roger Pack).
111 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
112 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
113 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
114 with their C compiler.
115
1163.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
117 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
118 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
119 ADD fails with EEXIST.
120 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
121 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
122 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
123 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
124 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
125 init functions.
126 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
127 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
128 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
129 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
130 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
131 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
132 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
133 do similar changes for event.c.
134
1353.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
136 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
137 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
138 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
139 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
140 have a performance impact).
141 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
142 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
143 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
144
1453.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
146 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
147 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
148 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
149 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
150 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
151 - documentation tweaks here and there.
152
1533.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
154 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
155 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
156 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
157 Matt Tolton).
158
1593.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
160 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
161 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
162 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
163 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
164 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
165 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
166 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
167 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
168 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
169 reported by Matt Tolton.
170 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
171 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
172 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
173 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
174 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
175 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
176 and some other default values.
177
1783.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
4 - work around an (undocumented) bug in winsocket select: if you 179 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
5 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky. 180 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
6 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon. 181 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
7 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces 182 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
8 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency. 183 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
9 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use 184 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
16 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at. 191 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
17 - improve ev_stat docs. 192 - improve ev_stat docs.
18 - add portability requirements section. 193 - add portability requirements section.
19 - fix manpage headers etc. 194 - fix manpage headers etc.
20 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows. 195 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
21 - start some (internal only) consistency check code that 196 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
22 can be called frequently to catch bugs. 197 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
23 198
243.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008 1993.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
25 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black. 200 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
26 201
273.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008 2023.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008

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