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Revision 1.64 by root, Tue Sep 30 19:51:44 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.108 by root, Wed Apr 15 19:35:53 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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3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 3TODO: ev_walk
4TODO: make ev_once timeout=0 useful, and make I/O always win. 4TODO: ev_stop_all docs
5TODO: priority/idle docs
6TODO: fix signal handling(?) under win32
73.54
8 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
9 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
10 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
11 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
12 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
13 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
14 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
15 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
16 Malek Hadj-Ali).
17 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
18 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
19
203.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
21 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
22 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
23 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
24 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
25 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
26 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
27 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
28
293.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
30 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
31 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
32 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
33 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
34 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
35 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
36 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
37 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
38 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
39 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
40 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
41 should return fantasy port numbers.
42 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
43 clearer diagnostics.
44 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
45 a useless string instead of the expected version string
46 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
47
483.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
49 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
50 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
51 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
52 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
53 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
54 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
55 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
56 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
57 automatically.
58 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
59 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
60 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
61 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
62 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
63 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
64 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
65 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
66 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
67 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
68
693.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
70 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
71 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
72 "known to be good" list.
73 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
74 (analysed by Roger Pack).
75 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
76 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
77 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
78 with their C compiler.
79
803.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
81 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
82 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
83 ADD fails with EEXIST.
84 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
85 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
86 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
87 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
88 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
89 init functions.
90 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
91 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
92 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
93 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
94 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
95 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
96 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
97 do similar changes for event.c.
98
993.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
100 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
101 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
102 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
103 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
104 have a performance impact).
105 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
106 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
107 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
108
53.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 1093.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
6 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the 110 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
7 embedded loop when the parent loop forks. 111 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
8 - new function: ev_now_update (loop). 112 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
9 - verify_watcher was not marked static. 113 - verify_watcher was not marked static.

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