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Revision: 1.350
Committed: Sat Dec 21 16:11:51 2019 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by root
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1 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2
3 TODO: revisit 59.x timer in the light of modern powersaving
4 TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
5
6 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
7 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
8 waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
9 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
10 - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
11 can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
12 - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
13
14 4.30 (EV only)
15 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
16 LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
17 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
18 backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
19
20 4.29 (EV only)
21 - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
22 - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
23
24 4.28 (EV only)
25 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
26 when loop is forked.
27 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
28 multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
29 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
30 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
31 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
32 io_submit also returns EINTR.
33 - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
34 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
35 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
36 libecb counterparts.
37 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
38 - prepare io_uring integration.
39 - tweak ev_floor.
40 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
41 reslution now all try to round up times.
42 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
43 - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
44
45 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
46 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
47 limitations.
48 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
49 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
50 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
51 in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
52 user error.
53 - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
54 a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
55
56 4.26 (EV only)
57 - update to libecb 0x00010006.
58 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
59 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
60 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
61 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
62 - minor code cleanups.
63 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
64
65 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
66 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
67 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
68 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
69 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
70 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
71 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
72 and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
73 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
74 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
75 - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
76 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
77 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
78 in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
79 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
80
81 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
82 - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
83 didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
84 version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
85
86 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
87 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
88 microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
89 otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
90
91 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
92 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
93 only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
94 SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
95 so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
96 (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
97 - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
98 (analyzed by Jason Madden).
99 - updated libecb.
100
101 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
102 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
103 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
104 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
105 watcher callbacks.
106
107 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
108 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
109 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
110 C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
111 declarations have to spell out the types each time.
112 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
113 functionality.
114
115 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
116 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
117 epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
118 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
119 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
120 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
121 when we can't detect the signal set size.
122 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
123 on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
124 doing clock_gettime in userspace).
125 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
126 loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
127 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
128 broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
129
130 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
131 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
132 watcher (Denis Bilenko).
133 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
134 them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
135 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
136 further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
137 - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
138 syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
139 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
140 event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
141 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
142 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
143 be overfenced than underprotected.
144 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
145 still active).
146 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
147 libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
148 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
149 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
150 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
151 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
152 the kqueue descriptor in the child.
153 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
154 in many cases.
155 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
156 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
157 common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
158 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
159 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
160 works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
161 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
162 Denis Bilenko).
163 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
164 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
165 the watcher base set (loop) method.
166 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
167 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
168 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
169 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
170 inotify-supporting filesystems.
171 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
172 versions ignore it before
173 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
174 - add some untested android support.
175 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
176
177 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
178 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
179 was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
180 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
181 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
182 caused signals to not be handled anymore.
183 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
184 specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
185 select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
186 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
187 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
188 - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
189 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
190 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
191 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
192 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
193 as no external libraries are required.
194 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
195 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
196 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
197 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
198 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
199 timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
200 - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
201 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
202 static.
203 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
204 were empty.
205
206 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
207 - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
208 with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
209 or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
210 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
211 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
212 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
213 they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
214
215 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
216 - officially support polling files with all backends.
217 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
218 backend, by generating events on our own.
219 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
220 (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
221 bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
222 than that).
223 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
224 #ifdef to test for them.
225 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
226 - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
227 - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
228 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
229
230 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
231 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
232 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
233 event.h on make install. grrr.
234 - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
235 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
236 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
237
238 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
239 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
240 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
241 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
242 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
243 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
244 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
245 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
246 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
247 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
248 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
249 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
250 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
251 did not work properly.
252 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
253 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
254 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
255 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
256 even when there is nothing to set.
257 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
258 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
259 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
260 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
261 on freebsd...).
262 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
263 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
264 override it.
265 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
266 section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
267 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
268 and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
269 and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
270 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
271 in an obscure case.
272 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
273 - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
274 no sscanf dependency).
275 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
276 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
277 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
278 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
279 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
280 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
281 - switch to two-digit minor version.
282 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
283 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
284 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
285 - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
286 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
287 default arguments when compiled as C++.
288 - enable automake dependency tracking.
289 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
290 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
291
292 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
293 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
294 explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
295 catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
296 - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
297 that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
298 - backport inotify code to C89.
299 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
300 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
301 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
302 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
303 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
304 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
305 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
306 (patch by Didier Spezia).
307 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
308 on fd creation, to avoid races.
309 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
310 (analysed by lekma).
311 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
312 signalfd.
313 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
314 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
315 so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
316 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
317 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
318
319 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
320 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
321 to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
322 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
323 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
324 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
325 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
326 - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
327 state when using libev's signal handling.
328 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
329 on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
330
331 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
332 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
333 instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
334 - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
335 - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
336 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
337 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
338 about thread locking.
339 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
340 - add ev_loop_depth.
341 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
342 for new events.
343 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
344 - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
345 check that the syscall number is available before trying to
346 use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
347 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
348 slightly higher accuracy.
349 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
350 !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
351 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
352 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
353 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
354 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
355
356 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
357 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
358 will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
359 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
360 watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
361 that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
362 (reported by blacksand blacksand).
363 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
364 reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
365 Malek Hadj-Ali).
366 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
367 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
368 - add documentation section about priorities.
369 - add a glossary to the documentation.
370 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
371 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
372
373 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
374 - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
375 failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
376 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
377 back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
378 operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
379 - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
380 (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
381
382 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
383 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
384 missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
385 - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
386 - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
387 - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
388 select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
389 allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
390 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
391 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
392 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
393 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
394 should return fantasy port numbers.
395 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
396 clearer diagnostics.
397 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
398 a useless string instead of the expected version string
399 (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
400
401 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
402 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
403 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
404 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
405 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
406 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
407 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
408 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
409 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
410 automatically.
411 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
412 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
413 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
414 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
415 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
416 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
417 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
418 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
419 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
420 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
421
422 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
423 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
424 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
425 "known to be good" list.
426 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
427 (analysed by Roger Pack).
428 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
429 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
430 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
431 with their C compiler.
432
433 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
434 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
435 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
436 ADD fails with EEXIST.
437 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
438 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
439 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
440 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
441 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
442 init functions.
443 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
444 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
445 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
446 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
447 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
448 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
449 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
450 do similar changes for event.c.
451
452 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
453 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
454 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
455 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
456 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
457 have a performance impact).
458 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
459 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
460 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
461
462 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
463 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
464 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
465 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
466 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
467 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
468 - documentation tweaks here and there.
469
470 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
471 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
472 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
473 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
474 Matt Tolton).
475
476 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
477 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
478 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
479 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
480 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
481 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
482 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
483 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
484 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
485 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
486 reported by Matt Tolton.
487 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
488 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
489 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
490 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
491 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
492 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
493 and some other default values.
494
495 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
496 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
497 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
498 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
499 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
500 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
501 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
502 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
503 2-based heaps.
504 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
505 memory accesses.
506 - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
507 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
508 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
509 - improve ev_stat docs.
510 - add portability requirements section.
511 - fix manpage headers etc.
512 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
513 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
514 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
515
516 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
517 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
518
519 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
520 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
521 (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
522 - added linux eventfd support.
523 - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
524 by libc header version if not using autoconf.
525 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
526 - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
527 C99 or gcc are available.
528 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
529 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
530 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
531 (no such systems are known at this time).
532 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
533 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
534 go away (noted by various people).
535 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
536 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
537 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
538 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
539
540 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
541 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
542 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
543 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
544 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
545 flags of any outer loops anymore.
546 - add ev_async_pending.
547
548 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
549 - implement ev_async watchers.
550 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
551 - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
552 - improved documentation.
553
554 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
555 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
556 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
557 - slightly improved documentation.
558 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
559 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
560 watchers.
561 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
562
563 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
564 - separate Changes file.
565 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
566 - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
567 - change how include files are found.
568 - doc updates.
569 - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
570
571 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
572 - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
573 - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
574 - fix embed watchers.
575 - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
576 - added exported Symbol tables.
577 - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
578 - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
579
580 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
581 - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
582
583 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
584 - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
585 (not relevant for perl).
586
587 (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
588
589 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
590 - original version; hacked together in <24h.
591