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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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3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 3TODO: move some other examples to common idioms? combining watchers,
4TODO: make ev_once timeout=0 useful, and make I/O always win. 4thread usage, coroutine switch?
5
6TODO: /dev/null epoll breakage, maybe catch EPERM?
7TODO: frankenpoll
84.03
9 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
10 backend, by generating events on our own.
11 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
12 #ifdef to test for them.
13
144.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
15 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
16 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
17 event.h on make install. grrr.
18 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
19 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
20 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
21
224.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
23 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
24 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
25 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
26 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
27 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
28 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
29 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
30 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
31 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
32 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
33 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
34 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
35 did not work properly.
36 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
37 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
38 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
39 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
40 even when there is nothing to set.
41 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
42 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
43 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
44 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
45 on freebsd...).
46 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
47 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
48 override it.
49 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
50 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
51 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
52 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
53 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
54 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
55 in an obscure case.
56 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
57 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
58 no sscanf dependency).
59 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
60 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
61 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
62 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
63 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
64 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
65 - switch to two-digit minor version.
66 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
67 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
68 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
69 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
70 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
71 default arguments when compiled as C++.
72 - enable automake dependency tracking.
73 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
74 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
75
763.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
77 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
78 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
79 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
80 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
81 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
82 - backport inotify code to C89.
83 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
84 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
85 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
86 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
87 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
88 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
89 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
90 (patch by Didier Spezia).
91 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
92 on fd creation, to avoid races.
93 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
94 (analysed by lekma).
95 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
96 signalfd.
97 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
98 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
99 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
100 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
101 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
102
1033.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
104 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
105 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
106 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
107 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
108 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
109 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
110 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
111 state when using libev's signal handling.
112 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
113 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
114
1153.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
116 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
117 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
118 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
119 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
120 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
121 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
122 about thread locking.
123 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
124 - add ev_loop_depth.
125 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
126 for new events.
127 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
128 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
129 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
130 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
131 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
132 slightly higher accuracy.
133 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
134 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
135 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
136 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
137 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
138 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
139
1403.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
141 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
142 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
143 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
144 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
145 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
146 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
147 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
148 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
149 Malek Hadj-Ali).
150 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
151 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
152 - add documentation section about priorites.
153 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
154 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
155 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
156
1573.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
158 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
159 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
160 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
161 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
162 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
163 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
164 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
165
1663.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
167 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
168 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
169 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
170 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
171 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
172 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
173 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
174 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
175 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
176 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
177 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
178 should return fantasy port numbers.
179 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
180 clearer diagnostics.
181 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
182 a useless string instead of the expected version string
183 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
184
1853.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
186 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
187 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
188 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
189 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
190 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
191 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
192 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
193 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
194 automatically.
195 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
196 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
197 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
198 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
199 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
200 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
201 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
202 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
203 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
204 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
205
2063.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
207 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
208 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
209 "known to be good" list.
210 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
211 (analysed by Roger Pack).
212 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
213 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
214 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
215 with their C compiler.
216
2173.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
218 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
219 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
220 ADD fails with EEXIST.
221 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
222 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
223 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
224 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
225 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
226 init functions.
227 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
228 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
229 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
230 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
231 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
232 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
233 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
234 do similar changes for event.c.
235
2363.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
237 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
238 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
239 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
240 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
241 have a performance impact).
242 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
243 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
244 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
245
53.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 2463.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
6 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the 247 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
7 embedded loop when the parent loop forks. 248 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
8 - new function: ev_now_update (loop). 249 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
9 - verify_watcher was not marked static. 250 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
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71 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. 312 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
72 - work around broken poll implementations potentially 313 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
73 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) 314 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
74 (no such systems are known at this time). 315 (no such systems are known at this time).
75 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, 316 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
76 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints 317 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
77 go away (noted by various people). 318 go away (noted by various people).
78 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async 319 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
79 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer. 320 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
80 - add sensible set method to ev::embed. 321 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
81 - made integer constants type int in ev.h. 322 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
82 323
833.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 3243.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
84 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, 325 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,

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