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Revision: 1.76
Committed: Mon Oct 27 13:39:18 2008 UTC (15 years, 6 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
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# Content
1 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2
3 WISH? monotonic clocks times/GetTickCount for coarse corrections?
4
5 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
6 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
7 ADD fails with EEXIST.
8 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
9 an 8-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
10 spurious notifications or unwanted events.
11 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
12 init functions.
13 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
14 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
15 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
16 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
17 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
18 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
19
20 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
21 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
22 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
23 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
24 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
25 have a performance impact).
26 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
27 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
28 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
29
30 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
31 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
32 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
33 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
34 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
35 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
36 - documentation tweaks here and there.
37
38 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
39 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
40 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
41 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
42 Matt Tolton).
43
44 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
45 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
46 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
47 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
48 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
49 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
50 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
51 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
52 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
53 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
54 reported by Matt Tolton.
55 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
56 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
57 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
58 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
59 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
60 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
61 and some other default values.
62
63 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
64 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
65 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
66 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
67 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
68 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
69 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
70 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
71 2-based heaps.
72 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
73 memory accesses.
74 - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
75 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
76 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
77 - improve ev_stat docs.
78 - add portability requirements section.
79 - fix manpage headers etc.
80 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
81 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
82 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
83
84 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
85 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
86
87 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
88 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
89 (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
90 - added linux eventfd support.
91 - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
92 by libc header version if not using autoconf.
93 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
94 - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
95 C99 or gcc are available.
96 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
97 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
98 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
99 (no such systems are known at this time).
100 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
101 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
102 go away (noted by various people).
103 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
104 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
105 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
106 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
107
108 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
109 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
110 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
111 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
112 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
113 flags of any outer loops anymore.
114 - add ev_async_pending.
115
116 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
117 - implement ev_async watchers.
118 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
119 - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
120 - improved documentation.
121
122 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
123 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
124 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
125 - slightly improved documentation.
126 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
127 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
128 watchers.
129 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
130
131 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
132 - separate Changes file.
133 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
134 - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
135 - change how include files are found.
136 - doc updates.
137 - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
138
139 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
140 - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
141 - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
142 - fix embed watchers.
143 - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
144 - added exported Symbol tables.
145 - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
146 - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
147
148 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
149 - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
150
151 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
152 - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
153 (not relevant for perl).
154
155 (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
156
157 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
158 - original version; hacked together in <24h.
159