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Revision 1.75 by root, Mon Oct 27 11:08:29 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.117 by root, Mon Jun 29 11:53:48 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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3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 3TODO: ev_walk
4TODO: child wactehr execution order w.r.t. childsigcb reg. priorities
5TODO: remain
6 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
7 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
8 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
9 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
10 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
11 slightly higher accuracy.
4 12
133.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
14 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
15 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
16 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
17 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
18 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
19 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
20 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
21 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
22 Malek Hadj-Ali).
23 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
24 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
25 - add documentation section about priorites.
26 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
27 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
28 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
29
303.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
31 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
32 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
33 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
34 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
35 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
36 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
37 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
38
393.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
40 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
41 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
42 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
43 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
44 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
45 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
46 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
47 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
48 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
49 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
50 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
51 should return fantasy port numbers.
52 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
53 clearer diagnostics.
54 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
55 a useless string instead of the expected version string
56 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
57
583.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
59 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
60 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
61 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
62 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
63 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
64 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
65 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
66 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
67 automatically.
68 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
69 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
70 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
71 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
72 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
73 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
74 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
75 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
76 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
77 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
78
793.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
80 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
81 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
82 "known to be good" list.
83 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
84 (analysed by Roger Pack).
85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
86 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
87 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
88 with their C compiler.
89
903.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
5 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll 91 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
6 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if 92 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
7 ADD fails with EEXIST. 93 ADD fails with EEXIST.
8 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using 94 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
9 an 8-bit generation counter. 95 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
96 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
97 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
10 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the 98 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
11 init functions. 99 init functions.
12 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section. 100 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
13 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the 101 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
14 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake 102 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
15 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop). 103 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
16 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default 104 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
17 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy. 105 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
106 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
107 do similar changes for event.c.
18 108
193.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 1093.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
20 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken 110 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
21 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). 111 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
22 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers 112 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers

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