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Revision 1.64 by root, Tue Sep 30 19:51:44 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.119 by root, Wed Jul 8 02:46:05 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: child wactehr execution order w.r.t. childsigcb reg. priorities
5TODO: remain
6 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
7 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
8 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
9 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
10 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
11 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
12 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
13 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
14 slightly higher accuracy.
15 - properly declare ev_loop_verify even when !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
16 - implement ev_loop_depth.
17
183.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
19 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
20 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
21 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
22 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
23 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
24 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
25 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
26 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
27 Malek Hadj-Ali).
28 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
29 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
30 - add documentation section about priorites.
31 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
32 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
33 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
34
353.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
36 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
37 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
38 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
39 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
40 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
41 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
42 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
43
443.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
45 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
46 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
47 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
48 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
49 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
50 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
51 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
52 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
53 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
54 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
55 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
56 should return fantasy port numbers.
57 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
58 clearer diagnostics.
59 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
60 a useless string instead of the expected version string
61 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
62
633.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
64 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
65 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
66 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
67 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
68 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
69 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
70 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
71 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
72 automatically.
73 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
74 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
75 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
76 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
77 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
78 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
79 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
80 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
81 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
82 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
83
843.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
85 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
86 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
87 "known to be good" list.
88 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
89 (analysed by Roger Pack).
90 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
91 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
92 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
93 with their C compiler.
94
953.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
96 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
97 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
98 ADD fails with EEXIST.
99 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
100 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
101 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
102 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
103 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
104 init functions.
105 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
106 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
107 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
108 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
109 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
110 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
111 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
112 do similar changes for event.c.
113
1143.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
115 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
116 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
117 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
118 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
119 have a performance impact).
120 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
121 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
122 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
123
53.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 1243.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
6 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the 125 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
7 embedded loop when the parent loop forks. 126 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
8 - new function: ev_now_update (loop). 127 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
9 - verify_watcher was not marked static. 128 - verify_watcher was not marked static.

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