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Revision: 1.372
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# User Rev Content
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 1.372 - the behaviour of EV_NOSIGMASK was reversed.
8    
9 root 1.371 4.34 (EV only)
10 root 1.369 - libev did not compile on systems lacking clock_gettime.
11 root 1.368 - due to a logic bug, timerfd availability did not always translate
12     into fewer wakeups - libev is now more aggressive in using
13     longer sleeps, even when timerfd is not in use.
14    
15 root 1.367 4.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
16     - no changes w.r.t. 4.32.
17    
18 root 1.365 4.32 (EV only)
19 root 1.366 - the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
20 root 1.354 fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
21 root 1.352 also used (found via cpan tester service).
22 root 1.358 - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
23 root 1.364 members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
24 root 1.358 (found by b_jonas).
25     - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
26 root 1.361 which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
27     to ev++.h.
28 root 1.360 - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
29     work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
30     allowed before.
31 root 1.356 - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
32 root 1.362 - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
33     a monotonic clock.
34 root 1.353 - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
35     such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
36 root 1.361 - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
37     ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
38 root 1.355 - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
39 root 1.356 - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
40 root 1.351
41 root 1.350 4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
42 root 1.348 - handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
43     waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
44 root 1.349 (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
45     - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
46     can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
47     - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.
48 root 1.348
49     4.30 (EV only)
50 root 1.347 - change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
51     LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
52 root 1.348 - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
53     backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.
54 root 1.347
55 root 1.346 4.29 (EV only)
56     - add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
57     - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.
58 root 1.345
59 root 1.344 4.28 (EV only)
60 root 1.340 - linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
61     when loop is forked.
62 root 1.335 - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
63     multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
64 root 1.341 - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
65 root 1.342 avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
66 root 1.334 - io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
67 root 1.341 io_submit also returns EINTR.
68     - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
69 root 1.342 - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
70 root 1.336 - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
71     libecb counterparts.
72 root 1.337 - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
73     - prepare io_uring integration.
74 root 1.339 - tweak ev_floor.
75 root 1.342 - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
76     reslution now all try to round up times.
77 root 1.343 - solaris port backend didn't compile.
78     - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
79 root 1.334
80 root 1.333 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019
81 root 1.334 - linux aio backend almost completely rewritten to work around its
82 root 1.329 limitations.
83 root 1.334 - linux aio backend now requires linux 4.19+.
84 root 1.329 - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend.
85 root 1.330 - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected
86     in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of
87     user error.
88     - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using
89     a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher.
90 root 1.329
91     4.26 (EV only)
92     - update to libecb 0x00010006.
93 root 1.326 - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+).
94 root 1.324 - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once.
95 root 1.325 - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation.
96 root 1.326 - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit.
97     - minor code cleanups.
98 root 1.327 - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork.
99 root 1.324
100 root 1.320 4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
101     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
102 root 1.323 (EV_THROW still provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
103 root 1.339 - move the darwin select workaround higher in ev.c, as newer versions of
104 root 1.316 darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
105 root 1.314 - ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
106 root 1.315 - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
107     and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
108 root 1.317 - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
109 root 1.318 - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
110     - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
111 root 1.319 - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
112 root 1.321 - update libecb, biggets change is to include a memory fence
113     in ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE on x86/amd64.
114 root 1.322 - minor autoconf/automake modernisation.
115 root 1.314
116 root 1.313 4.24 Wed Dec 28 05:19:55 CET 2016
117     - bump version to 4.24, as the release tarball inexplicably
118     didn't have the right version in ev.h, even though the cvs-tagged
119     version did have the right one (reported by Ales Teska).
120    
121 root 1.312 4.23 Wed Nov 16 18:23:41 CET 2016
122 root 1.311 - move some declarations at the beginning to help certain retarded
123     microsoft compilers, even though their documentation claims
124     otherwise (reported by Ruslan Osmanov).
125    
126 root 1.310 4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015
127 root 1.308 - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild
128     only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid
129     SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork,
130     so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork
131     (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler).
132     - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32
133     (analyzed by Jason Madden).
134 root 1.309 - updated libecb.
135 root 1.308
136 root 1.307 4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015
137 root 1.302 - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
138 root 1.303 - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11.
139 root 1.305 - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing
140 root 1.304 watcher callbacks.
141 root 1.301
142 root 1.300 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
143 root 1.298 - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
144 root 1.299 clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
145     C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected
146     declarations have to spell out the types each time.
147 root 1.297 - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related
148     functionality.
149    
150 root 1.296 4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014
151 root 1.295 - events on files were not always generated properly with the
152     epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal).
153 root 1.288 - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin).
154 root 1.289 - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat).
155 root 1.291 - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out
156     when we can't detect the signal set size.
157 root 1.292 - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall
158     on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems
159     doing clock_gettime in userspace).
160 root 1.293 - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible
161     loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet).
162 root 1.294 - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being
163     broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble).
164 root 1.288
165 root 1.287 4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013
166 root 1.271 - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid
167     watcher (Denis Bilenko).
168 root 1.266 - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes
169     them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko).
170 root 1.261 - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for
171     further code size decrease when compiling for C++.
172     - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator,
173     syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs).
174 root 1.256 - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new,
175     event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add
176 root 1.273 some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey).
177 root 1.263 - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better
178     be overfenced than underprotected.
179 root 1.256 - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are
180     still active).
181 root 1.252 - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with
182     libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919).
183 root 1.253 - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride).
184     - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov).
185 root 1.259 - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber).
186 root 1.254 - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking
187     the kqueue descriptor in the child.
188 root 1.282 - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories
189     in many cases.
190 root 1.262 - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h.
191 root 1.268 - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most
192     common reported usage bug in ev_io_start.
193 sf-exg 1.286 - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET.
194 root 1.270 - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this
195     works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...).
196 root 1.274 - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by
197     Denis Bilenko).
198 root 1.275 - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc.
199 root 1.276 - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing
200     the watcher base set (loop) method.
201 root 1.278 - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which
202 sf-exg 1.286 simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking
203 root 1.278 on fork, at the cost of one extra fd.
204 root 1.282 - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of
205     inotify-supporting filesystems.
206 root 1.283 - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf
207     versions ignore it before
208     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096).
209 root 1.284 - add some untested android support.
210 root 1.285 - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L).
211 root 1.253
212 root 1.250 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012
213 root 1.248 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as
214     was documented already, but not implemented in the repeating case.
215 root 1.249 - new compiletime symbols: EV_NO_SMP and EV_NO_THREADS.
216 root 1.234 - fix a race where the workaround against the epoll fork bugs
217     caused signals to not be handled anymore.
218 root 1.229 - correct backend_fudge for most backends, and implement a windows
219     specific workaround to avoid looping because we call both
220     select and Sleep, both with different time resolutions.
221 root 1.230 - document range and guarantees of ev_sleep.
222 root 1.231 - document reasonable ranges for periodics interval and offset.
223     - rename backend_fudge to backend_mintime to avoid future confusion :)
224 root 1.225 - change the default periodic reschedule function to hopefully be more
225 root 1.226 exact and correct even in corner cases or in the far future.
226 root 1.225 - do not rely on -lm anymore: use it when available but use our
227 root 1.230 own floor () if it is missing. This should make it easier to embed,
228     as no external libraries are required.
229 root 1.232 - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
230 sf-exg 1.239 as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
231 root 1.237 - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
232 root 1.242 - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
233 root 1.244 - fix #3 "be smart about timeouts" to not "deadlock" when
234     timeout == now, also improve the section overall.
235     - avoid "AVOIDING FINISHING BEFORE RETURNING" idiom.
236 root 1.245 - support new EV_API_STATIC mode to make all libev symbols
237     static.
238 root 1.251 - supply default CFLAGS of -g -O3 with gcc when original CFLAGS
239     were empty.
240 root 1.225
241 root 1.224 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
242     - fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
243     with different underlying handles caused handles not to be removed
244     or added to the select set (analyzed and tested by Bert Belder).
245 root 1.221 - do no rely on ceil() in ev_e?poll.c.
246 root 1.222 - backport libev to HP-UX versions before 11 v3.
247 root 1.223 - configure did not detect nanosleep and clock_gettime properly when
248     they are available in the libc (as opposed to -lrt).
249 root 1.221
250 root 1.219 4.03 Tue Jan 11 14:37:25 CET 2011
251 root 1.217 - officially support polling files with all backends.
252 root 1.212 - support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
253     backend, by generating events on our own.
254 root 1.217 - ports backend: work around solaris bug 6874410 and many related ones
255     (EINTR, maybe more), with no performance loss (note that the solaris
256     bug report is actually wrong, reality is far more bizarre and broken
257     than that).
258 root 1.209 - define EV_READ/EV_WRITE as macros in event.h, as some programs use
259     #ifdef to test for them.
260 root 1.213 - new (experimental) function: ev_feed_signal.
261     - new (to become default) EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK flag.
262     - new EVBACKEND_MASK symbol.
263 root 1.220 - updated COMMON IDIOMS SECTION.
264 root 1.209
265 root 1.207 4.01 Fri Nov 5 21:51:29 CET 2010
266 root 1.205 - automake fucked it up, apparently, --add-missing -f is not quite enough
267 root 1.206 to make it update its files, so 4.00 didn't install ev++.h and
268     event.h on make install. grrr.
269     - ev_loop(count|depth) didn't return anything (Robin Haberkorn).
270 root 1.203 - change EV_UNDEF to 0xffffffff to silence some overzealous compilers.
271 root 1.204 - use "(libev) " prefix for all libev error messages now.
272 root 1.203
273 root 1.202 4.00 Mon Oct 25 12:32:12 CEST 2010
274 root 1.171 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
275 root 1.161 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
276     testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
277 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it erroneously
278 root 1.187 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
279 root 1.179 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
280     in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
281 root 1.164 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
282 root 1.166 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
283 root 1.178 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
284     seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
285 root 1.197 - linux kernel version detection (for inotify bug workarounds)
286     did not work properly.
287 root 1.185 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
288 root 1.158 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
289 root 1.186 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
290     an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
291     even when there is nothing to set.
292 root 1.174 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
293 root 1.175 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
294     not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
295 root 1.176 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
296     on freebsd...).
297 root 1.195 - allow to embed epoll on kernels >= 2.6.32.
298 root 1.159 - configure now prepends -O3, not appends it, so one can still
299     override it.
300 root 1.190 - ev.pod: greatly expanded the portability section, added a porting
301     section, a description of watcher states and made lots of minor fixes.
302 root 1.160 - disable poll backend on AIX, the poll header spams the namespace
303     and it's not worth working around dead platforms (reported
304     and analyzed by Aivars Kalvans).
305 root 1.162 - improve header file compatibility of the standalone eventfd code
306     in an obscure case.
307 root 1.163 - implement EV_AVOID_STDIO option.
308     - do not use sscanf to parse linux version number (smaller, faster,
309     no sscanf dependency).
310 root 1.164 - new EV_CHILD_ENABLE and EV_SIGNAL_ENABLE configurable settings.
311 sf-exg 1.172 - update libev.m4 HAVE_CLOCK_SYSCALL test for newer glibcs.
312 root 1.165 - add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
313 root 1.168 - rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
314 root 1.190 - rename ev_loop_count/depth/verify/loop/unloop.
315 root 1.197 - remove ev_default_destroy and ev_default_fork.
316 root 1.168 - switch to two-digit minor version.
317 root 1.180 - work around an apparent gentoo compiler bug.
318 root 1.181 - define _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT. just so.
319 root 1.188 - use enum instead of #define for most constants.
320     - improve compatibility to older C++ compilers.
321 root 1.193 - (experimental) ev_run/ev_default_loop/ev_break/ev_loop_new have now
322     default arguments when compiled as C++.
323 root 1.196 - enable automake dependency tracking.
324 root 1.197 - ev_loop_new no longer leaks memory when loop creation failed.
325 root 1.198 - new ev_cleanup watcher type.
326 root 1.157
327 root 1.156 3.9 Thu Dec 31 07:59:59 CET 2009
328 root 1.155 - signalfd is no longer used by default and has to be requested
329     explicitly - this means that easy to catch bugs become hard to
330     catch race conditions, but the users have spoken.
331     - point out the unspecified signal mask in the documentation, and
332     that this is a race condition regardless of EV_SIGNALFD.
333 root 1.142 - backport inotify code to C89.
334 root 1.148 - inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
335 sf-exg 1.241 - ev_stat watchers could keep an erroneous extra ref on the loop,
336 root 1.151 preventing exit when unregistering all watchers (testcases
337 root 1.150 provided by ry@tinyclouds.org).
338 root 1.143 - implement EV_WIN32_HANDLE_TO_FD and EV_WIN32_CLOSE_FD configuration
339 root 1.145 symbols to make it easier for apps to do their own fd management.
340 root 1.144 - support EV_IDLE_ENABLE being disabled in ev++.h
341     (patch by Didier Spezia).
342 root 1.147 - take advantage of inotify_init1, if available, to set cloexec/nonblock
343     on fd creation, to avoid races.
344 root 1.150 - the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows
345     (analysed by lekma).
346 root 1.146 - changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for
347     signalfd.
348 root 1.152 - add missing string.h include (Denis F. Latypoff).
349 root 1.153 - only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference,
350     so prev is (almost) always different to attr. this might
351 sf-exg 1.191 have caused the problems with 04_stat.t.
352 root 1.154 - add ev::timer->remaining () method to C++ API.
353 root 1.142
354 root 1.141 3.8 Sun Aug 9 14:30:45 CEST 2009
355 root 1.133 - incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
356     to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
357 root 1.135 - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,
358 sf-exg 1.191 potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on repeated
359 root 1.134 ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
360 root 1.133 - take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
361     - document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
362     state when using libev's signal handling.
363 root 1.136 - take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set cloexec/nonblock
364     on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
365 root 1.132
366 root 1.131 3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:36:32 CEST 2009
367 root 1.128 - ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to exit loops,
368     instead of using a per-loop variable (bug caught by accident...).
369     - the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
370     - add new functionality: ev_set_userdata, ev_userdata,
371 root 1.126 ev_set_invoke_pending_cb, ev_set_loop_release_cb,
372 root 1.132 ev_invoke_pending, ev_pending_count, together with a long example
373     about thread locking.
374 root 1.128 - add ev_timer_remaining (as requested by Denis F. Latypoff).
375     - add ev_loop_depth.
376 root 1.124 - calling ev_unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
377     for new events.
378 root 1.115 - Denis F. Latypoff corrected many typos in example code snippets.
379     - honor autoconf detection of EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, also double-
380     check that the syscall number is available before trying to
381     use it (reported by ry@tinyclouds).
382 root 1.117 - use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows, for
383 root 1.116 slightly higher accuracy.
384 root 1.122 - properly declare ev_loop_verify and ev_now_update even when
385     !EV_MULTIPLICITY.
386 root 1.121 - do not compile in any priority code when EV_MAXPRI == EV_MINPRI.
387 root 1.123 - support EV_MINIMAL==2 for a reduced API.
388 root 1.125 - actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing signals.
389 root 1.127 - add section on hibernate and stopped processes to ev_timer docs.
390 root 1.115
391 root 1.113 3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:49:30 CEST 2009
392 root 1.107 - multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration
393     will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
394 root 1.105 - do not leave the event loop early just because we have no active
395     watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue loop
396     that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
397     (reported by blacksand blacksand).
398 root 1.102 - correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying and
399     reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
400     Malek Hadj-Ali).
401 root 1.108 - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume.
402 root 1.106 - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
403 sf-exg 1.241 - add documentation section about priorities.
404 sf-exg 1.286 - add a glossary to the documentation.
405 root 1.111 - extend the ev_fork description slightly.
406 root 1.112 - optimize a jump out of call_pending.
407 root 1.102
408 root 1.101 3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
409     - fix a bug in event pipe creation on win32 that would cause a
410     failed assertion on event loop creation (patch by Malek Hadj-Ali).
411 root 1.100 - probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and fall
412     back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
413     operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
414     - prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime with USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL
415     (default most everywhere), otherwise not.
416    
417 root 1.99 3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:43:02 CET 2009
418 root 1.97 - fix compilation of select backend in fd_set mode when NFDBITS is
419     missing (to get it to compile on QNX, reported by Rodrigo Campos).
420     - better select-nfds handling when select backend is in fd_set mode.
421     - diagnose fd_set overruns when select backend is in fd_set mode.
422     - due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
423     select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
424     allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
425 root 1.95 - actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
426     libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
427     attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
428 root 1.96 it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
429     should return fantasy port numbers.
430 root 1.100 - include "libev" in all assertion messages for potentially
431 root 1.97 clearer diagnostics.
432 root 1.98 - event_get_version (libevent compatibility) returned
433     a useless string instead of the expected version string
434     (patch by W.C.A. Wijngaards).
435 root 1.95
436 root 1.94 3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:00:11 CET 2008
437 root 1.91 - fix a bug where an inotify watcher was added twice, causing
438 root 1.92 freezes on hash collisions (reported and analysed by Graham Leggett).
439 root 1.87 - new config symbol, EV_USE_CLOCK_SYSCALL, to make libev use
440     a direct syscall - slower, but no dependency on librt et al.
441 root 1.88 - assume negative return values != -1 signals success of port_getn
442     (http://cvs.epicsol.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/epic5/source/newio.c?rev=1.52)
443     (no known failure reports, but it doesn't hurt).
444 root 1.93 - fork detection in ev_embed now stops and restarts the watcher
445     automatically.
446 root 1.89 - EXPERIMENTAL: default the method to operator () in ev++.h,
447     to make it nicer to use functors (requested by Benedek László).
448     - fixed const object callbacks in ev++.h.
449 root 1.90 - replaced loop_ref argument of watcher.set (loop) by a direct
450     ev_loop * in ev++.h, to avoid clashes with functor patch.
451 root 1.91 - do not try to watch the empty string via inotify.
452 root 1.92 - inotify watchers could be leaked under certain circumstances.
453     - OS X 10.5 is actually even more broken than earlier versions,
454     so fall back to select on that piece of garbage.
455 root 1.93 - fixed some weirdness in the ev_embed documentation.
456 root 1.87
457 root 1.86 3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
458 root 1.83 - ev_stat watchers will now use inotify as a mere hint on
459     kernels <2.6.25, or if the filesystem is not in the
460     "known to be good" list.
461 root 1.84 - better mingw32 compatibility (it's not as borked as native win32)
462     (analysed by Roger Pack).
463 root 1.85 - include stdio.h in the example program, as too many people are
464     confused by the weird C language otherwise. I guess the next thing
465     I get told is that the "..." ellipses in the examples don't compile
466     with their C compiler.
467 root 1.83
468 root 1.80 3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:02:37 CET 2008
469 root 1.71 - further optimise away the EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
470     backend by assuming the kernel event mask hasn't changed if
471     ADD fails with EEXIST.
472 root 1.75 - work around spurious event notification bugs in epoll by using
473 root 1.77 a 32-bit generation counter. recreate kernel state if we receive
474 root 1.78 spurious notifications or unwanted events. this is very costly,
475     but I didn't come up with this horrible design.
476 root 1.71 - use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away with the
477     init functions.
478 root 1.72 - expand time-out strategies into a "Be smart about timeouts" section.
479     - drop the "struct" from all ev_watcher declarations in the
480 root 1.73 documentation and did other clarifications (yeah, it was a mistake
481     to have a struct AND a function called ev_loop).
482 root 1.74 - fix a bug where ev_default would not initialise the default
483     loop again after it was destroyed with ev_default_destroy.
484 root 1.79 - rename syserr to ev_syserr to avoid name clashes when embedding,
485     do similar changes for event.c.
486 root 1.71
487 root 1.69 3.45 Tue Oct 21 21:59:26 CEST 2008
488 root 1.67 - disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25, as it is broken
489     (reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere).
490 sf-exg 1.191 - ev_stat erroneously would try to add inotify watchers
491 root 1.68 even when inotify wasn't available (this should only
492 root 1.67 have a performance impact).
493 root 1.65 - ev_once now passes both timeout and io to the callback if both
494     occur concurrently, instead of giving timeouts precedence.
495 root 1.66 - disable EV_USE_INOTIFY when sys/inotify.h is too old.
496 root 1.65
497 root 1.62 3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:18:39 CEST 2008
498     - embed watchers now automatically invoke ev_loop_fork on the
499     embedded loop when the parent loop forks.
500 root 1.58 - new function: ev_now_update (loop).
501 root 1.57 - verify_watcher was not marked static.
502 root 1.59 - improve the "associating..." manpage section.
503 root 1.60 - documentation tweaks here and there.
504 root 1.57
505 root 1.56 3.43 Sun Jul 6 05:34:41 CEST 2008
506 root 1.54 - include more include files on windows to get struct _stati64
507 root 1.56 (reported by Chris Hulbert, but doesn't quite fix his issue).
508 root 1.53 - add missing #include <io.h> in ev.c on windows (reported by
509     Matt Tolton).
510    
511 root 1.52 3.42 Tue Jun 17 12:12:07 CEST 2008
512 root 1.50 - work around yet another windows bug: FD_SET actually adds fd's
513     multiple times to the fd_*SET*, despite official MSN docs claiming
514 root 1.51 otherwise. Reported and well-analysed by Matt Tolton.
515     - define NFDBITS to 0 when EV_SELECT_IS_WINSOCKET to make it compile
516 root 1.48 (reported any analysed by Chris Hulbert).
517 root 1.49 - fix a bug in ev_ebadf (this function is only used to catch
518     programming errors in the libev user). reported by Matt Tolton.
519     - fix a bug in fd_intern on win32 (could lead to compile errors
520     under some circumstances, but would work correctly if it compiles).
521     reported by Matt Tolton.
522 root 1.50 - (try to) work around missing lstat on windows.
523 root 1.45 - pass in the write fd set as except fd set under windows. windows
524 root 1.46 is so uncontrollably lame that it requires this. this means that
525     switching off oobinline is not supported (but tcp/ip doesn't
526     have oob, so that would be stupid anyways.
527 root 1.47 - use posix module symbol to auto-detect monotonic clock presence
528     and some other default values.
529 root 1.45
530 root 1.44 3.41 Fri May 23 18:42:54 CEST 2008
531 root 1.46 - work around an obscure bug in winsocket select: if you
532 root 1.40 provide only empty fd sets then select returns WSAEINVAL. how sucky.
533 root 1.41 - improve timer scheduling stability and reduce use of time_epsilon.
534 root 1.36 - use 1-based 2-heap for EV_MINIMAL, simplifies code, reduces
535     codesize and makes for better cache-efficiency.
536     - use 3-based 4-heap for !EV_MINIMAL. this makes better use
537     of cpu cache lines and gives better growth behaviour than
538     2-based heaps.
539 root 1.38 - cache timestamp within heap for !EV_MINIMAL, to avoid random
540     memory accesses.
541     - document/add EV_USE_4HEAP and EV_HEAP_CACHE_AT.
542 root 1.33 - fix a potential aliasing issue in ev_timer_again.
543 root 1.35 - add/document ev_periodic_at, retract direct access to ->at.
544     - improve ev_stat docs.
545     - add portability requirements section.
546 root 1.39 - fix manpage headers etc.
547 root 1.40 - normalise WSA error codes to lower range on windows.
548 root 1.43 - add consistency check code that can be called automatically
549     or on demand to check for internal structures (ev_loop_verify).
550 root 1.31
551 root 1.30 3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:45:04 CEST 2008
552     - added last minute fix for ev_poll.c by Brandon Black.
553 root 1.29
554 root 1.28 3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:10 CEST 2008
555 root 1.23 - event_base_loopexit should return 0 on success
556     (W.C.A. Wijngaards).
557 root 1.20 - added linux eventfd support.
558     - try to autodetect epoll and inotify support
559     by libc header version if not using autoconf.
560 root 1.21 - new symbols: EV_DEFAULT_UC and EV_DEFAULT_UC_.
561     - declare functions defined in ev.h as inline if
562     C99 or gcc are available.
563     - enable inlining with gcc versions 2 and 3.
564 root 1.25 - work around broken poll implementations potentially
565     not clearing revents field in ev_poll (Brandon Black)
566     (no such systems are known at this time).
567 root 1.23 - work around a bug in realloc on openbsd and darwin,
568 sf-exg 1.191 also makes the erroneous valgrind complaints
569 root 1.23 go away (noted by various people).
570 root 1.26 - fix ev_async_pending, add c++ wrapper for ev_async
571 sf-exg 1.191 (based on patch sent by Johannes Deisenhofer).
572 root 1.26 - add sensible set method to ev::embed.
573 root 1.27 - made integer constants type int in ev.h.
574 root 1.20
575 root 1.19 3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:11:19 CEST 2008
576 root 1.15 - fix a 64 bit overflow issue in the select backend,
577     by using fd_mask instead of int for the mask.
578 root 1.16 - rename internal sighandler to avoid clash with very old perls.
579 root 1.18 - entering ev_loop will not clear the ONESHOT or NONBLOCKING
580     flags of any outer loops anymore.
581 root 1.17 - add ev_async_pending.
582 root 1.15
583 root 1.14 3.1 Thu Mar 13 13:45:22 CET 2008
584 root 1.12 - implement ev_async watchers.
585 root 1.10 - only initialise signal pipe on demand.
586     - make use of sig_atomic_t configurable.
587 root 1.14 - improved documentation.
588 root 1.10
589 root 1.9 3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:14:47 CET 2008
590 root 1.6 - API/ABI bump to version 3.0.
591 root 1.4 - ev++.h includes "ev.h" by default now, not <ev.h>.
592     - slightly improved documentation.
593 root 1.5 - speed up signal detection after a fork.
594 root 1.6 - only optionally return trace status changed in ev_child
595     watchers.
596 root 1.8 - experimental (and undocumented) loop wrappers for ev++.h.
597 root 1.4
598 root 1.2 2.01 Tue Dec 25 08:04:41 CET 2007
599 root 1.3 - separate Changes file.
600 root 1.2 - fix ev_path_set => ev_stat_set typo.
601     - remove event_compat.h from the libev tarball.
602     - change how include files are found.
603     - doc updates.
604     - update licenses, explicitly allow for GPL relicensing.
605    
606     2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
607     - new ev_sleep, ev_set_(io|timeout)_collect_interval.
608     - removed epoll from embeddable fd set.
609     - fix embed watchers.
610     - renamed ev_embed.loop to other.
611     - added exported Symbol tables.
612     - undefine member wrapper macros at the end of ev.c.
613     - respect EV_H in ev++.h.
614    
615     1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
616     - fix memleak on loop destroy (not relevant for perl).
617    
618     1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
619     - fix some aliasing issues w.r.t. timers and periodics
620     (not relevant for perl).
621    
622     (for historic versions refer to EV/Changes, found in the Perl interface)
623    
624 root 1.1 0.1 Wed Oct 31 21:31:48 CET 2007
625     - original version; hacked together in <24h.
626