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Revision: 1.96
Committed: Fri Jan 2 23:23:32 2009 UTC (15 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 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
4 libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
5 attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
6 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
7 should return fantasy port numbers.
8
9 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
10 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
11 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
12 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
13 a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
14 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
15 (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
16 (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
17 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
18 automatically.
19 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
20 to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
21 - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
22 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
23 ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
24 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
25 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
26 - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
27 so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
28 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
29
30 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
31 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
32 kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
33 "known to be good" list.
34 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
35 (analysed by Roger Pack).
36 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
37 confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
38 I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
39 with their C compiler.
40
41 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
42 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
43 backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
44 ADD fails with EEXIST.
45 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
46 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
47 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
48 but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
49 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
50 init functions.
51 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
52 - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
53 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
54 to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
55 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
56 loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
57 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
58 do similar changes for event.c.
59
60 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
61 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
62 (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
63 - ev_stat errornously would try to add inotify watchers
64 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
65 have a performance impact).
66 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
67 occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
68 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
69
70 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
71 - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
72 embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
73 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
74 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
75 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
76 - documentation tweaks here and there.
77
78 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
79 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
80 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
81 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
82 Matt Tolton).
83
84 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
85 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
86 multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
87 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
88 - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
89 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
90 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
91 programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
92 - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
93 under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
94 reported by Matt Tolton.
95 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
96 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
97 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
98 switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
99 have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
100 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
101 and some other default values.
102
103 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
104 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
105 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
106 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
107 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
108 codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
109 - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
110 of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
111 2-based heaps.
112 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
113 memory accesses.
114 - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
115 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
116 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
117 - improve ev_stat docs.
118 - add portability requirements section.
119 - fix manpage headers etc.
120 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
121 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
122 or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
123
124 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
125 - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
126
127 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
128 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
129 (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
130 - added linux eventfd support.
131 - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
132 by libc header version if not using autoconf.
133 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
134 - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
135 C99 or gcc are available.
136 - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
137 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
138 not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
139 (no such systems are known at this time).
140 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
141 also makes the errornous valgrind complaints
142 go away (noted by various people).
143 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
144 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer.
145 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
146 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
147
148 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
149 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
150 by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
151 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
152 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
153 flags of any outer loops anymore.
154 - add ev_async_pending.
155
156 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
157 - implement ev_async watchers.
158 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
159 - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
160 - improved documentation.
161
162 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
163 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
164 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
165 - slightly improved documentation.
166 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
167 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
168 watchers.
169 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
170
171 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
172 - separate Changes file.
173 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
174 - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
175 - change how include files are found.
176 - doc updates.
177 - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
178
179 2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
180 - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
181 - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
182 - fix embed watchers.
183 - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
184 - added exported Symbol tables.
185 - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
186 - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
187
188 1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
189 - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
190
191 1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
192 - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
193 (not relevant for perl).
194
195 (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
196
197 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
198 - original version; hacked together in <24h.
199