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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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33.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
4 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
5 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
6 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
7 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
8 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
9 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
10 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
11 state when using libev's signal handling.
12 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
13 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
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153.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
16 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
17 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
18 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
19 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
20 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
21 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
22 about thread locking.
23 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
24 - add ev_loop_depth.
25 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
26 for new events.
27 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
28 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
29 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
30 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
31 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
32 slightly higher accuracy.
33 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
34 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
35 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
36 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
37 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
38 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
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403.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
41 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
42 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
43 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
44 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
45 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
46 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
47 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
48 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
49 Malek Hadj-Ali).
50 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
51 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
52 - add documentation section about priorites.
53 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
54 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
55 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
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573.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
58 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
59 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
60 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
61 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
62 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
63 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
64 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
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663.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
67 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
68 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
69 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
70 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
71 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
72 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
73 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
74 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
75 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
76 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
77 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
78 should return fantasy port numbers.
79 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
80 clearer diagnostics.
81 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
82 a useless string instead of the expected version string
83 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
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853.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
86 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
87 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
88 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
89 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
90 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
91 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
92 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
94 automatically.
95 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
96 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
97 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
98 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
99 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
100 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
101 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
102 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
103 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
104 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
105
1063.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
107 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
108 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
109 "known to be good" list.
110 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
111 (analysed by Roger Pack).
112 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
113 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
114 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
115 with their C compiler.
116
1173.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
118 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
119 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
120 ADD fails with EEXIST.
121 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
122 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
123 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
124 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
125 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
126 init functions.
127 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
128 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
129 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
130 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
131 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
132 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
133 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
134 do similar changes for event.c.
135
1363.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
137 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
138 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
139 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
140 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
141 have a performance impact).
142 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
143 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
144 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
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1463.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
147 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
148 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
149 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
150 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
151 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
152 - documentation tweaks here and there.
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33.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008 1543.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
4 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64 155 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
5 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue). 156 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
6 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by 157 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by

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