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Revision 1.83 by root, Mon Nov 3 14:27:06 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.146 by root, Wed Aug 26 17:31:20 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.
2 2
3WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? 3 - backport inotify code to C89.
4 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
5 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
6 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
7 (patch by Didier Spezia).
8 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation.
9 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
10 signalfd.
4 11
123.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
13 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
14 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
15 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
16 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated
17 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
18 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
19 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
20 state when using libev's signal handling.
21 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
22 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
23
243.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
25 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
26 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
27 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
28 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
29 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
30 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
31 about thread locking.
32 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
33 - add ev_loop_depth.
34 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
35 for new events.
36 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
37 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
38 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
39 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
40 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
41 slightly higher accuracy.
42 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
43 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
44 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
45 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
46 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
47 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
48
493.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
50 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
51 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
52 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
53 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
54 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
55 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
56 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
57 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
58 Malek Hadj-Ali).
59 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
60 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
61 - add documentation section about priorites.
62 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
63 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
64 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
65
663.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
67 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
68 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
69 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
70 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
71 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
72 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
73 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
74
753.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
76 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
77 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
78 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
79 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
80 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
81 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
82 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
83 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
84 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
85 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
86 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
87 should return fantasy port numbers.
88 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
89 clearer diagnostics.
90 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
91 a useless string instead of the expected version string
92 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
93
943.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
95 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
96 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
97 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
98 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
99 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
100 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
101 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
102 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
103 automatically.
104 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
105 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
106 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
107 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
108 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
109 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
110 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
111 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
112 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
113 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
114
1153.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
5 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on 116 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
6 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the 117 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
7 "known to be good" list. 118 "known to be good" list.
119 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
120 (analysed by Roger Pack).
121 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
122 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
123 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
124 with their C compiler.
8 125
93.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008 1263.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
10 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll 127 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
11 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if 128 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
12 ADD fails with EEXIST. 129 ADD fails with EEXIST.

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