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Revision 1.66 by root, Wed Oct 1 18:50:03 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.122 by root, Thu Jul 9 09:11:20 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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3TODO: ev_walk
4TODO: remain
5TODO: on_call_pending, on_suspend_resume ev_invoke_pending (EV_P)
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 and ev_now_update even when
16 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
17 - implement ev_loop_depth.
18 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
3 19
4WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 203.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
21 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
22 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
23 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
24 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
25 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
26 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
27 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
28 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
29 Malek Hadj-Ali).
30 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
31 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
32 - add documentation section about priorites.
33 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
34 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
35 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
36
373.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
38 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
39 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
40 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
41 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
42 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
43 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
44 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
45
463.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
47 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
48 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
49 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
50 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
51 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
52 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
53 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
54 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
55 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
56 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
57 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
58 should return fantasy port numbers.
59 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
60 clearer diagnostics.
61 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
62 a useless string instead of the expected version string
63 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
64
653.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
66 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
67 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
68 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
69 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
70 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
71 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
72 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
73 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
74 automatically.
75 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
76 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
77 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
78 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
79 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
80 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
81 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
82 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
83 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
84 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
85
863.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
87 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
88 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
89 "known to be good" list.
90 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
91 (analysed by Roger Pack).
92 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
93 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
94 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
95 with their C compiler.
96
973.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
98 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
99 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
100 ADD fails with EEXIST.
101 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
102 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
103 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
104 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
105 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
106 init functions.
107 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
108 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
109 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
110 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
111 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
112 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
113 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
114 do similar changes for event.c.
115
1163.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
117 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
118 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
119 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
120 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
121 have a performance impact).
5 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both 122 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
6 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. 123 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
7 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. 124 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
8 125
93.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 1263.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008

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