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1 root 1.14 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2 root 1.1
3 root 1.359 TODO: for next ABI/API change, consider moving EV__IOFDSSET into io->fd instead and provide a getter.
4 root 1.342 TODO: document EV_TSTAMP_T
5 root 1.370 TODO: https://paste.debian.net/1268417/, stdfun
6 root 1.344
7 root 1.371 4.34 (EV only)
8 root 1.369 - libev did not compile on systems lacking clock_gettime.
9 root 1.368 - due to a logic bug, timerfd availability did not always translate
10     into fewer wakeups - libev is now more aggressive in using
11     longer sleeps, even when timerfd is not in use.
12    
13 root 1.367 4.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
14     - no changes w.r.t. 4.32.
15    
16 root 1.365 4.32 (EV only)
17 root 1.366 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
18 root 1.354 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
19 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
20 root 1.358 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
21 root 1.364 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
22 root 1.358 (found by b_jonas).
23     - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
24 root 1.361 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
25     to ev++.h.
26 root 1.360 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
27     work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
28     allowed before.
29 root 1.356 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
30 root 1.362 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
31     a monotonic clock.
32 root 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
33     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
34 root 1.361 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
35     ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
36 root 1.355 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
37 root 1.356 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
38 root 1.351
39 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
40 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
41     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
42 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
43     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
44     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
45     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
46 root 1.348
47     4.30 (EV only)
48 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
49     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
50 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
51     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
52 root 1.347
53 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
54     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
55     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
56 root 1.345
57 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
58 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
59     when loop is forked.
60 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
61     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
62 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
63 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
64 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
65 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
66     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
67 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
68 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
69     libecb counterparts.
70 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
71     - prepare io_uring integration.
72 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
73 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
74     reslution now all try to round up times.
75 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
76     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
77 root 1.334
78 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
79 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
80 root 1.329 limitations.
81 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
82 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
83 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
84     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
85     user error.
86     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
87     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
88 root 1.329
89     4.26 (EV only)
90     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
91 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
92 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
93 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
94 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
95     - minor code cleanups.
96 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
97 root 1.324
98 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
99     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
100 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
101 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
102 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
103 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
104 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
105     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
106 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
107 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
108     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
109 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
110 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
111     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
112 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
113 root 1.314
114 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
115     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
116     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
117     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
118    
119 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
120 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
121     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
122     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
123    
124 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
125 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
126     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
127     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
128     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
129     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
130     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
131     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
132 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
133 root 1.308
134 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
135 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
136 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
137 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
138 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
139 root 1.301
140 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
141 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
142 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
143     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
144     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
145 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
146     functionality.
147    
148 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
149 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
150     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
151 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
152 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
153 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
154     when we can't detect the signal set size.
155 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
156     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
157     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
158 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
159     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
160 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
161     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
162 root 1.288
163 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
164 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
165     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
166 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
167     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
168 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
169     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
170     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
171     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
172 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
173     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
174 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
175 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
176     be overfenced than underprotected.
177 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
178     still active).
179 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
180     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
181 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
182     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
183 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
184 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
185     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
186 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
187     in many cases.
188 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
189 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
190     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
191 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
192 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
193     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
194 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
195     Denis Bilenko).
196 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
197 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
198     the watcher base set (loop) method.
199 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
200 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
201 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
202 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
203     inotify-supporting filesystems.
204 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
205     versions ignore it before
206     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
207 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
208 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
209 root 1.253
210 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
211 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
212     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
213 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
214 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
215     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
216 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
217     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
218     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
219 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
220 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
221     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
222 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
223 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
224 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
225 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
226     as no external libraries are required.
227 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
228 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
229 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
230 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
231 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
232     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
233     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
234 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
235     static.
236 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
237     were empty.
238 root 1.225
239 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
240     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
241     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
242     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
243 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
244 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
245 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
246     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
247 root 1.221
248 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
249 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
250 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
251     backend, by generating events on our own.
252 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
253     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
254     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
255     than that).
256 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
257     #ifdef to test for them.
258 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
259     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
260     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
261 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
262 root 1.209
263 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
264 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
265 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
266     event.h on make install. grrr.
267     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
268 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
269 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
270 root 1.203
271 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
272 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
273 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
274     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
275 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
276 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
277 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
278     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
279 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
280 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
281 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
282     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
283 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
284     did not work properly.
285 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
286 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
287 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
288     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
289     even when there is nothing to set.
290 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
291 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
292     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
293 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
294     on freebsd...).
295 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
296 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
297     override it.
298 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
299     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
300 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
301     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
302     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
303 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
304     in an obscure case.
305 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
306     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
307     no sscanf dependency).
308 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
309 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
310 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
311 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
312 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
313 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
314 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
315 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
316 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
317 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
318     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
319 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
320     default arguments when compiled as C++.
321 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
322 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
323 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
324 root 1.157
325 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
326 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
327     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
328     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
329     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
330     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
331 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
332 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
333 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
334 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
335 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
336 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
337 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
338 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
339     (patch by Didier Spezia).
340 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
341     on fd creation, to avoid races.
342 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
343     (analysed by lekma).
344 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
345     signalfd.
346 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
347 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
348     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
349 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
350 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
351 root 1.142
352 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
353 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
354     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
355 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
356 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
357 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
358 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
359     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
360     state when using libev's signal handling.
361 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
362     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
363 root 1.132
364 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
365 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
366     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
367     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
368     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
369 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
370 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
371     about thread locking.
372 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
373     - add ev_loop_depth.
374 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
375     for new events.
376 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
377     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
378     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
379     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
380 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
381 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
382 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
383     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
384 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
385 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
386 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
387 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
388 root 1.115
389 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
390 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
391     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
392 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
393     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
394     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
395     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
396 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
397     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
398     Malek Hadj-Ali).
399 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
400 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
401 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
402 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
403 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
404 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
405 root 1.102
406 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
407     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
408     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
409 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
410     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
411     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
412     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
413     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
414    
415 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
416 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
417     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
418     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
419     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
420     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
421     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
422     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
423 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
424     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
425     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
426 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
427     should return fantasy port numbers.
428 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
429 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
430 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
431     a useless string instead of the expected version string
432     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
433 root 1.95
434 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
435 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
436 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
437 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
438     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
439 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
440     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
441     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
442 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
443     automatically.
444 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
445     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
446     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
447 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
448     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
449 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
450 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
451     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
452     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
453 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
454 root 1.87
455 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
456 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
457     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
458     "known to be good" list.
459 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
460     (analysed by Roger Pack).
461 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
462     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
463     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
464     with their C compiler.
465 root 1.83
466 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
467 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
468     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
469     ADD fails with EEXIST.
470 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
471 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
472 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
473     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
474 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
475     init functions.
476 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
477     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
478 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
479     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
480 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
481     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
482 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
483     do similar changes for event.c.
484 root 1.71
485 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
486 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
487     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
488 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
489 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
490 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
491 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
492     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
493 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
494 root 1.65
495 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
496     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
497     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
498 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
499 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
500 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
501 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
502 root 1.57
503 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
504 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
505 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
506 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
507     Matt Tolton).
508    
509 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
510 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
511     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
512 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
513     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
514 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
515 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
516     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
517     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
518     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
519     reported by Matt Tolton.
520 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
521 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
522 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
523     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
524     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
525 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
526     and some other default values.
527 root 1.45
528 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
529 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
530 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
531 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
532 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
533     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
534     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
535     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
536     2-based heaps.
537 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
538     memory accesses.
539     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
540 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
541 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
542     - improve ev_stat docs.
543     - add portability requirements section.
544 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
545 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
546 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
547     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
548 root 1.31
549 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
550     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
551 root 1.29
552 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
553 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
554     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
555 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
556     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
557     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
558 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
559     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
560     C99 or gcc are available.
561     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
562 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
563     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
564     (no such systems are known at this time).
565 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
566 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
567 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
568 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
569 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
570 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
571 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
572 root 1.20
573 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
574 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
575     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
576 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
577 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
578     flags of any outer loops anymore.
579 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
580 root 1.15
581 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
582 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
583 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
584     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
585 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
586 root 1.10
587 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
588 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
589 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
590     - slightly improved documentation.
591 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
592 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
593     watchers.
594 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
595 root 1.4
596 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
597 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
598 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
599     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
600     - change how include files are found.
601     - doc updates.
602     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
603    
604     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
605     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
606     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
607     - fix embed watchers.
608     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
609     - added exported Symbol tables.
610     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
611     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
612    
613     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
614     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
615    
616     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
617     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
618     (not relevant for perl).
619    
620     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
621    
622 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
623     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
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