--- libev/Changes 2008/09/30 19:51:44 1.64 +++ libev/Changes 2009/07/10 19:10:19 1.124 @@ -1,7 +1,132 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? -TODO: make ev_once timeout=0 useful, and make I/O always win. +TODO: ev_walk +TODO: remain +TODO: on_call_pending, on_suspend_resume ev_invoke_pending (EV_P) +TODO: EV_MINIMAL + - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, + instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). + - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll + for new events. + - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. + - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. + - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- + check that the syscall number is available before trying to + use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). + - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for + slightly higher accuracy. + - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when + !EV_MULTIPLICITY. + - implement ev_loop_depth. + - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. + - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. + +3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009 + - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration + will be invoked in the "correct" order now. + - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active + watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop + that has active kernel events but no registered watchers + (reported by blacksand blacksand). + - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and + reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by + Malek Hadj-Ali). + - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. + - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. + - add documentation section about priorites. + - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. + - extend the ev_fork description slightly. + - optimize a jump out of call_pending. + +3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 + - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a + failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali). + - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall + back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older + operating systems with newer header files/libraries. + - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL + (default most everywhere), otherwise not. + +3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009 + - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is + missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos). + - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode. + - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode. + - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but + select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was + allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in + libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service + attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure + it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname + should return fantasy port numbers. + - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially + clearer diagnostics. + - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned + a useless string instead of the expected version string + (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards). + +3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008 + - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing + freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett). + - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use + a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al. + - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn + (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52) + (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt). + - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher + automatically. + - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h, + to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László). + - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h. + - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct + ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch. + - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify. + - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances. + - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions, + so fall back to select on that piece of garbage. + - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation. + +3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008 + - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on + kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the + "known to be good" list. + - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32) + (analysed by Roger Pack). + - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are + confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing + I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile + with their C compiler. + +3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008 + - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll + backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if + ADD fails with EEXIST. + - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using + a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive + spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly, + but I didn't come up with this horrible design. + - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the + init functions. + - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section. + - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the + documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake + to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop). + - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default + loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy. + - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding, + do similar changes for event.c. + +3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 + - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken + (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). + - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers + even when inotify wasn't available (this should only + have a performance impact). + - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both + occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. + - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. + 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the embedded loop when the parent loop forks.