--- libev/Changes 2008/10/27 13:39:18 1.76 +++ libev/Changes 2008/11/19 10:33:32 1.86 @@ -1,13 +1,24 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections? +3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008 + - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on + kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the + "known to be good" list. + - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32) + (analysed by Roger Pack). + - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are + confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing + I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile + with their C compiler. +3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if ADD fails with EEXIST. - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using - an 8-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive - spurious notifications or unwanted events. + a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive + spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly, + but I didn't come up with this horrible design. - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the init functions. - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section. @@ -16,6 +27,8 @@ to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop). - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy. + - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding, + do similar changes for event.c. 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken