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Revision 1.56 by root, Sun Jul 6 03:36:51 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.129 by root, Wed Jul 15 17:07:42 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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3TODO: ev_walk
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5 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
6 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
7 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
8 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
9 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
10 ev_invoke_pending, together with a long example about thread
11 locking.
12 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
13 - add ev_loop_depth.
14 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
15 for new events.
16 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
17 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
18 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
19 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
20 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
21 slightly higher accuracy.
22 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
23 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
24 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
25 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
26 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
27 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
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293.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
30 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
31 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
32 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
33 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
34 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
35 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
36 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
37 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
38 Malek Hadj-Ali).
39 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
40 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
41 - add documentation section about priorites.
42 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
43 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
44 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
45
463.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
47 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
48 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
49 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
50 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
51 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
52 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
53 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
54
553.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
56 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
57 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
58 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
59 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
60 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
61 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
62 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
63 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
64 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
65 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
66 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
67 should return fantasy port numbers.
68 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
69 clearer diagnostics.
70 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
71 a useless string instead of the expected version string
72 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
73
743.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
75 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
76 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
77 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
78 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
79 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
80 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
81 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
82 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
83 automatically.
84 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
85 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
86 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
87 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
88 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
89 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
90 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
91 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
92 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
94
953.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
96 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
97 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
98 "known to be good" list.
99 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
100 (analysed by Roger Pack).
101 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
102 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
103 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
104 with their C compiler.
105
1063.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
107 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
108 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
109 ADD fails with EEXIST.
110 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
111 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
112 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
113 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
114 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
115 init functions.
116 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
117 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
118 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
119 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
120 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
121 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
122 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
123 do similar changes for event.c.
124
1253.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
126 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
127 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
128 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
129 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
130 have a performance impact).
131 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
132 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
133 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
134
1353.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
136 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
137 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
138 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
139 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
140 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
141 - documentation tweaks here and there.
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33.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008 1433.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
4 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64 144 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
5 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue). 145 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
6 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by 146 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by

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