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Revision 1.75 by root, Mon Oct 27 11:08:29 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.105 by root, Wed Apr 15 09:51:19 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
3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 3TODO: ev_time_freeze, ev_time_thaw
4TODO: ev_walk
5TODO: ev_stop_all
6TODO: fix signal handling(?) under win32
7 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
8 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
9 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
10 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
11 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
12 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
13 Malek Hadj-Ali).
4 14
153.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
16 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
17 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
18 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
19 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
20 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
21 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
22 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
23
243.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
25 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
26 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
27 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
28 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
29 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
30 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
31 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
32 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
33 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
34 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
35 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
36 should return fantasy port numbers.
37 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
38 clearer diagnostics.
39 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
40 a useless string instead of the expected version string
41 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
42
433.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
44 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
45 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
46 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
47 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
48 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
49 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
50 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
51 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
52 automatically.
53 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
54 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
55 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
56 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
57 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
58 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
59 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
60 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
61 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
62 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
63
643.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
65 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
66 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
67 "known to be good" list.
68 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
69 (analysed by Roger Pack).
70 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
71 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
72 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
73 with their C compiler.
74
753.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
5 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll 76 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
6 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if 77 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
7 ADD fails with EEXIST. 78 ADD fails with EEXIST.
8 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using 79 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
9 an 8-bit generation counter. 80 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
81 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
82 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
10 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the 83 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
11 init functions. 84 init functions.
12 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section. 85 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
13 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the 86 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
14 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake 87 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
15 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop). 88 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
16 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default 89 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
17 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy. 90 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
91 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
92 do similar changes for event.c.
18 93
193.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 943.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
20 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken 95 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
21 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). 96 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
22 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers 97 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers

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