--- libev/Changes 2008/11/21 02:10:34 1.88 +++ libev/Changes 2010/03/10 08:19:38 1.164 @@ -1,10 +1,151 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. +TODO: accept() documentation + - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good + testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). + - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). + - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). + - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still + override it. + - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace + and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported + and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). + - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code + in an obscure case. + - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option. + - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster, + no sscanf dependency). + - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. + +3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 + - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested + explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to + catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. + - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and + that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. + - backport inotify code to C89. + - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. + - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop, + preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases + provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). + - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration + symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. + - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h + (patch by Didier Spezia). + - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock + on fd creation, to avoid races. + - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows + (analysed by lekma). + - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for + signalfd. + - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). + - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, + so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might + have caused the probems with 04_stat.t. + - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. + +3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 + - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler + to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. + - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members, + potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repated + ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. + - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. + - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified + state when using libev's signal handling. + - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock + on fd creation, to avoid race conditions. + +3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009 + - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, + instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). + - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. + - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata, + ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb, + ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example + about thread locking. + - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff). + - add ev_loop_depth. + - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll + for new events. + - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. + - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- + check that the syscall number is available before trying to + use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). + - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for + slightly higher accuracy. + - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when + !EV_MULTIPLICITY. + - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. + - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. + - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals. + - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs. + +3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009 + - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration + will be invoked in the "correct" order now. + - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active + watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop + that has active kernel events but no registered watchers + (reported by blacksand blacksand). + - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and + reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by + Malek Hadj-Ali). + - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. + - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. + - add documentation section about priorites. + - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. + - extend the ev_fork description slightly. + - optimize a jump out of call_pending. + +3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 + - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a + failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali). + - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall + back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older + operating systems with newer header files/libraries. + - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL + (default most everywhere), otherwise not. + +3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009 + - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is + missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos). + - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode. + - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode. + - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but + select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was + allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in + libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service + attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure + it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname + should return fantasy port numbers. + - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially + clearer diagnostics. + - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned + a useless string instead of the expected version string + (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards). + +3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008 + - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing + freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett). - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al. - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52) (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt). + - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher + automatically. + - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h, + to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László). + - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h. + - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct + ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch. + - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify. + - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances. + - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions, + so fall back to select on that piece of garbage. + - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation. 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on