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1 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2
3 TODO: ev_loop_wakeup
4
5 TODO: EV_NO_THREADS/NO_SMP and/or EV_USE_PTHREADS or so. also document.
6 TODO: #define EV_API_DECL static? ev_default_loop_ptr?
7 TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone)
8 TODO: memory fences for clang
9 4.10
10 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
11 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
12 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
13 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
14 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
15 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
16 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
17 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
18 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
19 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
20 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
21 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
22 as no external libraries are required.
23 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
24 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
25 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
26
27 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
28 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
29 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
30 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
31 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
32 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
33 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
34 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
35
36 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
37 - officially support polling files with all backends.
38 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
39 backend, by generating events on our own.
40 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
41 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
42 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
43 than that).
44 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
45 #ifdef to test for them.
46 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
47 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
48 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
49 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
50
51 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
52 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
53 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
54 event.h on make install. grrr.
55 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
56 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
57 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
58
59 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
60 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
61 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
62 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
63 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
64 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
65 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
66 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
67 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
68 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
69 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
70 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
71 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
72 did not work properly.
73 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
74 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
75 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
76 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
77 even when there is nothing to set.
78 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
79 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
80 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
81 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
82 on freebsd...).
83 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
84 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
85 override it.
86 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
87 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
88 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
89 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
90 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
91 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
92 in an obscure case.
93 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
94 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
95 no sscanf dependency).
96 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
97 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
98 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
99 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
100 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
101 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
102 - switch to two-digit minor version.
103 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
104 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
105 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
106 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
107 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
108 default arguments when compiled as C++.
109 - enable automake dependency tracking.
110 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
111 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
112
113 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
114 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
115 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
116 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
117 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
118 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
119 - backport inotify code to C89.
120 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
121 - ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop,
122 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
123 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
124 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
125 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
126 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
127 (patch by Didier Spezia).
128 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
129 on fd creation, to avoid races.
130 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
131 (analysed by lekma).
132 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
133 signalfd.
134 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
135 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
136 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
137 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
138 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
139
140 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
141 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
142 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
143 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
144 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
145 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
146 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
147 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
148 state when using libev's signal handling.
149 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
150 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
151
152 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
153 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
154 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
155 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
156 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
157 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
158 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
159 about thread locking.
160 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
161 - add ev_loop_depth.
162 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
163 for new events.
164 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
165 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
166 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
167 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
168 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
169 slightly higher accuracy.
170 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
171 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
172 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
173 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
174 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
175 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
176
177 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
178 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
179 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
180 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
181 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
182 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
183 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
184 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
185 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
186 Malek Hadj-Ali).
187 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
188 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
189 - add documentation section about priorites.
190 - add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
191 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
192 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
193
194 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
195 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
196 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
197 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
198 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
199 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
200 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
201 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
202
203 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
204 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
205 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
206 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
207 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
208 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
209 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
210 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
211 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
212 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
213 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
214 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
215 should return fantasy port numbers.
216 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
217 clearer diagnostics.
218 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
219 a useless string instead of the expected version string
220 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
221
222 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
223 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
224 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
225 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
226 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
227 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
228 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
229 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
230 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
231 automatically.
232 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
233 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
234 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
235 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
236 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
237 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
238 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
239 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
240 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
241 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
242
243 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
244 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
245 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
246 "known to be good" list.
247 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
248 (analysed by Roger Pack).
249 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
250 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
251 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
252 with their C compiler.
253
254 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
255 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
256 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
257 ADD fails with EEXIST.
258 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
259 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
260 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
261 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
262 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
263 init functions.
264 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
265 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
266 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
267 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
268 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
269 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
270 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
271 do similar changes for event.c.
272
273 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
274 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
275 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
276 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
277 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
278 have a performance impact).
279 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
280 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
281 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
282
283 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
284 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
285 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
286 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
287 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
288 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
289 - documentation tweaks here and there.
290
291 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
292 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
293 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
294 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
295 Matt Tolton).
296
297 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
298 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
299 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
300 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
301 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
302 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
303 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
304 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
305 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
306 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
307 reported by Matt Tolton.
308 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
309 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
310 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
311 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
312 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
313 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
314 and some other default values.
315
316 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
317 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
318 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
319 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
320 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
321 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
322 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
323 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
324 2-based heaps.
325 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
326 memory accesses.
327 - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
328 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
329 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
330 - improve ev_stat docs.
331 - add portability requirements section.
332 - fix manpage headers etc.
333 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
334 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
335 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
336
337 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
338 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
339
340 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
341 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
342 (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
343 - added linux eventfd support.
344 - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
345 by libc header version if not using autoconf.
346 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
347 - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
348 C99 or gcc are available.
349 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
350 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
351 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
352 (no such systems are known at this time).
353 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
354 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
355 go away (noted by various people).
356 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
357 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
358 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
359 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
360
361 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
362 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
363 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
364 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
365 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
366 flags of any outer loops anymore.
367 - add ev_async_pending.
368
369 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
370 - implement ev_async watchers.
371 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
372 - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
373 - improved documentation.
374
375 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
376 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
377 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
378 - slightly improved documentation.
379 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
380 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
381 watchers.
382 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
383
384 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
385 - separate Changes file.
386 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
387 - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
388 - change how include files are found.
389 - doc updates.
390 - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
391
392 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
393 - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
394 - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
395 - fix embed watchers.
396 - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
397 - added exported Symbol tables.
398 - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
399 - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
400
401 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
402 - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
403
404 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
405 - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
406 (not relevant for perl).
407
408 (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
409
410 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
411 - original version; hacked together in <24h.
412