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Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. |
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TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of modern powersaving |
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TODO: maybe use timerfd to detect time jumps on linux |
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TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T |
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4.29 (EV only) |
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- add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection. |
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- disable io_uring when some header files are too old. |
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4.28 (EV only) |
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- linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption |
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when loop is forked. |
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- linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb |
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multiple times (was unable to trigger this). |
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- linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to |
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avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests. |
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- io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume |
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io_submit also returns EINTR. |
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- fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend. |
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- ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T. |
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- cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their |
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libecb counterparts. |
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- move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c. |
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- prepare io_uring integration. |
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- tweak ev_floor. |
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- epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond |
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reslution now all try to round up times. |
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- solaris port backend didn't compile. |
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- abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility. |
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4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019 |
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- linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its |
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limitations. |
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- linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+. |
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- epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend. |
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- fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected |
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in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of |
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user error. |
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- ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using |
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a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher. |
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4.26 (EV only) |
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- update to libecb 0x00010006. |
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- new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+). |
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- removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once. |
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- updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation. |
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- replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit. |
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- minor code cleanups. |
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- epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork. |
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4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018 |
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- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT |
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(EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer. |
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- move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of |
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darwin managed to break their broken select even more. |
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- ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com). |
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- disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files |
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and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com). |
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- avoid a minor compilation warning on win32. |
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- c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications. |
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- c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class. |
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- backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested. |
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- update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence |
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in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64. |
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- minor autoconf/automake modernisation. |
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4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016 |
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- bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably |
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didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged |
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version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska). |
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4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016 |
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- move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded |
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microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims |
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otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov). |
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4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015 |
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- when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild |
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only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid |
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SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork, |
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so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork |
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(analyzed by Benjamin Mahler). |
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- remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32 |
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(analyzed by Jason Madden). |
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- updated libecb. |
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4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015 |
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- prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11. |
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- update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11. |
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- fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing |
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watcher callbacks. |
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4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014 |
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- ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than |
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clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately, |
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C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected |
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declarations have to spell out the types each time. |
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- when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related |
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functionality. |
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4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014 |
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- events on files were not always generated properly with the |
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epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal). |
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- mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin). |
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- (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat). |
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- use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out |
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when we can't detect the signal set size. |
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- in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall |
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on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems |
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doing clock_gettime in userspace). |
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- ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible |
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loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet). |
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- (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being |
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broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble). |
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4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013 |
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- destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid |
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watcher (Denis Bilenko). |
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- queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes |
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them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko). |
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- add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for |
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further code size decrease when compiling for C++. |
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- add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator, |
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syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs). |
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- fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new, |
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event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add |
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some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey). |
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- add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better |
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be overfenced than underprotected. |
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- ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are |
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still active). |
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- ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with |
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libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919). |
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- (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride). |
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- (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov). |
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- (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber). |
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- work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking |
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the kqueue descriptor in the child. |
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- work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories |
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in many cases. |
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- include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h. |
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- check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most |
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common reported usage bug in ev_io_start. |
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- choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET. |
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- always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this |
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works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...). |
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- try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by |
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Denis Bilenko). |
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- work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc. |
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- rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing |
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the watcher base set (loop) method. |
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- rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which |
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simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking |
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on fork, at the cost of one extra fd. |
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- add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of |
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inotify-supporting filesystems. |
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- move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf |
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versions ignore it before |
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(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096). |
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- add some untested android support. |
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- enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L). |
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4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 |
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- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as |
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was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case. |
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- new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS. |
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- fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs |
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caused signals to not be handled anymore. |
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- correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows |
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specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both |
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select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions. |
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- document range and guarantees of ev_sleep. |
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- document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset. |
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- rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :) |
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- change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more |
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exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future. |
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- do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our |
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own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed, |
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as no external libraries are required. |
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- strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions |
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as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups). |
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- add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing. |
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- fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now). |
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- fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when |
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timeout == now, also improve the section overall. |
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- avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom. |
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- support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols |
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static. |
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- supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS |
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were empty. |
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4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011 |
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- fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's |
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with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed |
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or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder). |
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- do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c. |
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- backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3. |
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- configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when |
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they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt). |
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4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011 |
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- officially support polling files with all backends. |
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- support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll |
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backend, by generating events on our own. |
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- ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones |
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(EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris |
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bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken |
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than that). |
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- define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use |
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#ifdef to test for them. |
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- new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal. |
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- new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag. |
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- new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol. |
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- updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION. |
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4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010 |
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- automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough |
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to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and |
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event.h on make install. grrr. |
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- ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn). |
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- change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers. |
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- use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now. |
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4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010 |
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- "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. |
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- ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good |
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testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). |
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- ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously |
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didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire. |
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- fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire |
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in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó). |
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- applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). |
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- replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. |
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- prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it |
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seems the former is *much* faster than the latter. |
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- linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds) |
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did not work properly. |
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- reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend. |
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- remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). |
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- do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids |
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an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API |
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even when there is nothing to set. |
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- add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, |
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this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting |
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not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). |
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- do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't |
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on freebsd...). |
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- allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32. |
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- configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still |
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override it. |
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- ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting |
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section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes. |
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- disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace |
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and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported |
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and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans). |
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- improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code |
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in an obscure case. |
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- implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option. |
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- do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster, |
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no sscanf dependency). |
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- new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings. |
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- update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs. |
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- add section on accept() problems to the manpage. |
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- rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER. |
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- rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop. |
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- remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork. |
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- switch to two-digit minor version. |
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- work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug. |
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- define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so. |
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- use enum instead of #define for most constants. |
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- improve compatibility to older C++ compilers. |
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- (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now |
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default arguments when compiled as C++. |
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- enable automake dependency tracking. |
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- ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed. |
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- new ev_cleanup watcher type. |
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3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009 |
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- signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested |
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explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to |
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catch race conditions, but the users have spoken. |
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- point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and |
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that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD. |
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- backport inotify code to C89. |
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- inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes. |
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- ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop, |
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preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases |
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provided by ry@tinyclouds.org). |
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- implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration |
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symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management. |
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- support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h |
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(patch by Didier Spezia). |
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- take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock |
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on fd creation, to avoid races. |
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- the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows |
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(analysed by lekma). |
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- changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for |
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signalfd. |
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- add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff). |
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- only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference, |
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so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might |
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have caused the problems with 04_stat.t. |
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- add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API. |
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3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009 |
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- incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler |
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to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped. |
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- ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members, |
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potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated |
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ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls. |
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- take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems. |
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- document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified |
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state when using libev's signal handling. |
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- take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock |
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on fd creation, to avoid race conditions. |
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3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009 |
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- ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops, |
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instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...). |
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- the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed. |
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- add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata, |
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ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb, |
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ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example |
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about thread locking. |
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- add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff). |
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- add ev_loop_depth. |
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- calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll |
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for new events. |
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- Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets. |
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- honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double- |
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check that the syscall number is available before trying to |
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use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds). |
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- use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for |
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slightly higher accuracy. |
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- properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when |
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!EV_MULTIPLICITY. |
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- do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI. |
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- support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API. |
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- actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals. |
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- add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs. |
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3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009 |
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- multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration |
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will be invoked in the "correct" order now. |
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- do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active |
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watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop |
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that has active kernel events but no registered watchers |
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(reported by blacksand blacksand). |
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- correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and |
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reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by |
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Malek Hadj-Ali). |
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- implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. |
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- new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. |
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- add documentation section about priorities. |
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- add a glossary to the documentation. |
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- extend the ev_fork description slightly. |
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- optimize a jump out of call_pending. |
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3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009 |
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- fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a |
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failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali). |
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- probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall |
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back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older |
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operating systems with newer header files/libraries. |
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- prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL |
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(default most everywhere), otherwise not. |
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3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009 |
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- fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is |
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missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos). |
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- better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode. |
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- diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode. |
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- due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but |
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select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was |
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allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta). |
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- actually verify that local and remote port are matching in |
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libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service |
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attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure |
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it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname |
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should return fantasy port numbers. |
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- include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially |
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clearer diagnostics. |
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- event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned |
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a useless string instead of the expected version string |
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(patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards). |
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3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008 |
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- fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing |
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freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett). |
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- new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use |
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a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al. |
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- assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn |
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(http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52) |
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(no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt). |
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- fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher |
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automatically. |
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- EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h, |
| 399 |
to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László). |
| 400 |
- fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h. |
| 401 |
- replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct |
| 402 |
ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch. |
| 403 |
- do not try to watch the empty string via inotify. |
| 404 |
- inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances. |
| 405 |
- OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions, |
| 406 |
so fall back to select on that piece of garbage. |
| 407 |
- fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation. |
| 408 |
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| 409 |
3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008 |
| 410 |
- ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on |
| 411 |
kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the |
| 412 |
"known to be good" list. |
| 413 |
- better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32) |
| 414 |
(analysed by Roger Pack). |
| 415 |
- include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are |
| 416 |
confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing |
| 417 |
I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile |
| 418 |
with their C compiler. |
| 419 |
|
| 420 |
3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008 |
| 421 |
- further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll |
| 422 |
backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if |
| 423 |
ADD fails with EEXIST. |
| 424 |
- work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using |
| 425 |
a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive |
| 426 |
spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly, |
| 427 |
but I didn't come up with this horrible design. |
| 428 |
- use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the |
| 429 |
init functions. |
| 430 |
- expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section. |
| 431 |
- drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the |
| 432 |
documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake |
| 433 |
to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop). |
| 434 |
- fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default |
| 435 |
loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy. |
| 436 |
- rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding, |
| 437 |
do similar changes for event.c. |
| 438 |
|
| 439 |
3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008 |
| 440 |
- disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken |
| 441 |
(reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere). |
| 442 |
- ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers |
| 443 |
even when inotify wasn't available (this should only |
| 444 |
have a performance impact). |
| 445 |
- ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both |
| 446 |
occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence. |
| 447 |
- disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old. |
| 448 |
|
| 449 |
3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008 |
| 450 |
- embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the |
| 451 |
embedded loop when the parent loop forks. |
| 452 |
- new function: ev_now_update (loop). |
| 453 |
- verify_watcher was not marked static. |
| 454 |
- improve the "associating..." manpage section. |
| 455 |
- documentation tweaks here and there. |
| 456 |
|
| 457 |
3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008 |
| 458 |
- include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64 |
| 459 |
(reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue). |
| 460 |
- add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by |
| 461 |
Matt Tolton). |
| 462 |
|
| 463 |
3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008 |
| 464 |
- work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's |
| 465 |
multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming |
| 466 |
otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton. |
| 467 |
- define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile |
| 468 |
(reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert). |
| 469 |
- fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch |
| 470 |
programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton. |
| 471 |
- fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors |
| 472 |
under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles). |
| 473 |
reported by Matt Tolton. |
| 474 |
- (try to) work around missing lstat on windows. |
| 475 |
- pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows |
| 476 |
is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that |
| 477 |
switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't |
| 478 |
have oob, so that would be stupid anyways. |
| 479 |
- use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence |
| 480 |
and some other default values. |
| 481 |
|
| 482 |
3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008 |
| 483 |
- work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you |
| 484 |
provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky. |
| 485 |
- improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon. |
| 486 |
- use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces |
| 487 |
codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency. |
| 488 |
- use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use |
| 489 |
of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than |
| 490 |
2-based heaps. |
| 491 |
- cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random |
| 492 |
memory accesses. |
| 493 |
- document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT. |
| 494 |
- fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again. |
| 495 |
- add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at. |
| 496 |
- improve ev_stat docs. |
| 497 |
- add portability requirements section. |
| 498 |
- fix manpage headers etc. |
| 499 |
- normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows. |
| 500 |
- add consistency check code that can be called automatically |
| 501 |
or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify). |
| 502 |
|
| 503 |
3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008 |
| 504 |
- added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black. |
| 505 |
|
| 506 |
3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008 |
| 507 |
- event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success |
| 508 |
(W.C.A. Wijngaards). |
| 509 |
- added linux eventfd support. |
| 510 |
- try to autodetect epoll and inotify support |
| 511 |
by libc header version if not using autoconf. |
| 512 |
- new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_. |
| 513 |
- declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if |
| 514 |
C99 or gcc are available. |
| 515 |
- enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3. |
| 516 |
- work around broken poll implementations potentially |
| 517 |
not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black) |
| 518 |
(no such systems are known at this time). |
| 519 |
- work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin, |
| 520 |
also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints |
| 521 |
go away (noted by various people). |
| 522 |
- fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async |
| 523 |
(based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer). |
| 524 |
- add sensible set method to ev::embed. |
| 525 |
- made integer constants type int in ev.h. |
| 526 |
|
| 527 |
3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008 |
| 528 |
- fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend, |
| 529 |
by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask. |
| 530 |
- rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls. |
| 531 |
- entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING |
| 532 |
flags of any outer loops anymore. |
| 533 |
- add ev_async_pending. |
| 534 |
|
| 535 |
3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008 |
| 536 |
- implement ev_async watchers. |
| 537 |
- only initialise signal pipe on demand. |
| 538 |
- make use of sig_atomic_t configurable. |
| 539 |
- improved documentation. |
| 540 |
|
| 541 |
3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008 |
| 542 |
- API/ABI bump to version 3.0. |
| 543 |
- ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>. |
| 544 |
- slightly improved documentation. |
| 545 |
- speed up signal detection after a fork. |
| 546 |
- only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child |
| 547 |
watchers. |
| 548 |
- experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h. |
| 549 |
|
| 550 |
2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007 |
| 551 |
- separate Changes file. |
| 552 |
- fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo. |
| 553 |
- remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball. |
| 554 |
- change how include files are found. |
| 555 |
- doc updates. |
| 556 |
- update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing. |
| 557 |
|
| 558 |
2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007 |
| 559 |
- new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval. |
| 560 |
- removed epoll from embeddable fd set. |
| 561 |
- fix embed watchers. |
| 562 |
- renamed ev_embed.loop to other. |
| 563 |
- added exported Symbol tables. |
| 564 |
- undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c. |
| 565 |
- respect EV_H in ev++.h. |
| 566 |
|
| 567 |
1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007 |
| 568 |
- fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl). |
| 569 |
|
| 570 |
1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007 |
| 571 |
- fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics |
| 572 |
(not relevant for perl). |
| 573 |
|
| 574 |
(for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface) |
| 575 |
|
| 576 |
0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007 |
| 577 |
- original version; hacked together in <24h. |
| 578 |
|