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Revision 1.66 by root, Wed Oct 1 18:50:03 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.124 by root, Fri Jul 10 19:10:19 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.
2 2
3TODO: ev_walk
4TODO: remain
5TODO: on_call_pending, on_suspend_resume ev_invoke_pending (EV_P)
6TODO: EV_MINIMAL
7 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
8 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
9 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
10 for new events.
11 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
12 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
13 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
14 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
15 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
16 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
17 slightly higher accuracy.
18 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
19 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
20 - implement ev_loop_depth.
21 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
22 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
3 23
4WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 243.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
25 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
26 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
27 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
28 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
29 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
30 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
31 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
32 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
33 Malek Hadj-Ali).
34 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
35 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
36 - add documentation section about priorites.
37 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
38 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
39 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
40
413.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
42 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
43 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
44 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
45 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
46 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
47 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
48 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
49
503.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
51 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
52 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
53 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
54 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
55 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
56 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
57 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
58 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
59 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
60 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
61 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
62 should return fantasy port numbers.
63 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
64 clearer diagnostics.
65 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
66 a useless string instead of the expected version string
67 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
68
693.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
70 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
71 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
72 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
73 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
74 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
75 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
76 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
77 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
78 automatically.
79 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
80 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
81 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
82 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
83 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
84 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
85 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
86 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
87 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
88 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
89
903.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
91 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
92 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
93 "known to be good" list.
94 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
95 (analysed by Roger Pack).
96 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
97 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
98 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
99 with their C compiler.
100
1013.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
102 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
103 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
104 ADD fails with EEXIST.
105 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
106 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
107 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
108 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
109 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
110 init functions.
111 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
112 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
113 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
114 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
115 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
116 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
117 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
118 do similar changes for event.c.
119
1203.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
121 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
122 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
123 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
124 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
125 have a performance impact).
5 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both 126 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
6 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. 127 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
7 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. 128 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
8 129
93.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 1303.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008

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