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Revision: 1.105
Committed: Wed Apr 15 09:51:19 2009 UTC (15 years, 1 month ago) by root
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1 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2
3 TODO: ev_time_freeze, ev_time_thaw
4 TODO: ev_walk
5 TODO: ev_stop_all
6 TODO: 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).
14
15 3.53 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
24 3.52 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
43 3.51 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
64 3.49 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
75 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
76 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
77 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
78 ADD fails with EEXIST.
79 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
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.
83 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
84 init functions.
85 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
86 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
87 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
88 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
89 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
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.
93
94 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
95 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
96 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
97 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
98 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
99 have a performance impact).
100 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
101 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
102 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
103
104 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
105 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
106 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
107 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
108 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
109 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
110 - documentation tweaks here and there.
111
112 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
113 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
114 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
115 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
116 Matt Tolton).
117
118 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
119 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
120 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
121 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
122 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
123 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
124 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
125 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
126 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
127 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
128 reported by Matt Tolton.
129 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
130 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
131 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
132 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
133 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
134 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
135 and some other default values.
136
137 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
138 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
139 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
140 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
141 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
142 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
143 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
144 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
145 2-based heaps.
146 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
147 memory accesses.
148 - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
149 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
150 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
151 - improve ev_stat docs.
152 - add portability requirements section.
153 - fix manpage headers etc.
154 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
155 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
156 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
157
158 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
159 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
160
161 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
162 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
163 (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
164 - added linux eventfd support.
165 - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
166 by libc header version if not using autoconf.
167 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
168 - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
169 C99 or gcc are available.
170 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
171 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
172 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
173 (no such systems are known at this time).
174 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
175 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
176 go away (noted by various people).
177 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
178 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
179 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
180 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
181
182 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
183 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
184 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
185 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
186 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
187 flags of any outer loops anymore.
188 - add ev_async_pending.
189
190 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
191 - implement ev_async watchers.
192 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
193 - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
194 - improved documentation.
195
196 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
197 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
198 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
199 - slightly improved documentation.
200 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
201 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
202 watchers.
203 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
204
205 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
206 - separate Changes file.
207 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
208 - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
209 - change how include files are found.
210 - doc updates.
211 - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
212
213 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
214 - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
215 - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
216 - fix embed watchers.
217 - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
218 - added exported Symbol tables.
219 - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
220 - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
221
222 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
223 - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
224
225 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
226 - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
227 (not relevant for perl).
228
229 (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
230
231 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
232 - original version; hacked together in <24h.
233