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diff --git a/libev/Changes b/libev/Changes index c664503..b9d9b16 100644 --- a/libev/Changes +++ b/libev/Changes @@ -2,6 +2,103 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. TODO: ev_loop_wakeup TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) +TODO: faq, process a thing in each iteration +TODO: dbeugging tips, ev_verify, ev_init twice +TODO: ev_break for immediate exit (EVBREAK_NOW?) +TODO: ev_feed_child_event +TODO: document the special problem of signals around fork. +TODO: store pid for each signal +TODO: document file descriptor usage per loop +TODO: store loop pid_t and compare isndie signal handler,store 1 for same, 2 for differign pid, clean up in loop_fork +TODO: embed watchers need updating when fd changes +TODO: document portability requirements for atomic pointer access +TODO: document requirements for function pointers and calling conventions. + +4.22 Sun Dec 20 22:11:50 CET 2015 + - when epoll detects unremovable fds in the fd set, rebuild + only the epoll descriptor, not the signal pipe, to avoid + SIGPIPE in ev_async_send. This doesn't solve it on fork, + so document what needs to be done in ev_loop_fork + (analyzed by Benjamin Mahler). + - remove superfluous sys/timeb.h include on win32 + (analyzed by Jason Madden). + - updated libecb. + +4.20 Sat Jun 20 13:01:43 CEST 2015 + - prefer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11. + - update ecb.h due to incompatibilities with c11. + - fix a potential aliasing issue when reading and writing + watcher callbacks. + +4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014 + - ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than + clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately, + C++ doesn't support typedefs for function pointers fully, so the affected + declarations have to spell out the types each time. + - when not using autoconf, tighten the check for clock_gettime and related + functionality. + +4.18 Fri Sep 5 17:55:26 CEST 2014 + - events on files were not always generated properly with the + epoll backend (testcase by Assaf Inbal). + - mark event pipe fd as cloexec after a fork (analyzed by Sami Farin). + - (ecb) support m68k, m88k and sh (patch by Miod Vallat). + - use a reasonable fallback for EV_NSIG instead of erroring out + when we can't detect the signal set size. + - in the absence of autoconf, do not use the clock syscall + on glibc >= 2.17 (avoids the syscall AND -lrt on systems + doing clock_gettime in userspace). + - ensure extern "C" function pointers are used for externally-visible + loop callbacks (not watcher callbacks yet). + - (ecb) work around memory barriers and volatile apparently both being + broken in visual studio 2008 and later (analysed and patch by Nicolas Noble). + +4.15 Fri Mar 1 12:04:50 CET 2013 + - destroying a non-default loop would stop the global waitpid + watcher (Denis Bilenko). + - queueing pending watchers of higher priority from a watcher now invokes + them in a timely fashion (reported by Denis Bilenko). + - add throw() to all libev functions that cannot throw exceptions, for + further code size decrease when compiling for C++. + - add throw () to callbacks that must not throw exceptions (allocator, + syserr, loop acquire/release, periodic reschedule cbs). + - fix event_base_loop return code, add event_get_callback, event_base_new, + event_base_get_method calls to improve libevent 1.x emulation and add + some libevent 2.x functionality (based on a patch by Jeff Davey). + - add more memory fences to fix a bug reported by Jeff Davey. Better + be overfenced than underprotected. + - ev_run now returns a boolean status (true meaning watchers are + still active). + - ev_once: undef EV_ERROR in ev_kqueue.c, to avoid clashing with + libev's EV_ERROR (reported by 191919). + - (ecb) add memory fence support for xlC (Darin McBride). + - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-mips (Anton Kirilov). + - (ecb) add memory fence support for gcc-alpha (Christian Weisgerber). + - work around some kernels losing file descriptors by leaking + the kqueue descriptor in the child. + - work around linux inotify not reporting IN_ATTRIB changes for directories + in many cases. + - include sys/syscall.h instead of plain syscall.h. + - check for io watcher loops in ev_verify, check for the most + common reported usage bug in ev_io_start. + - choose socket vs. WSASocket at compiletime using EV_USE_WSASOCKET. + - always use WSASend/WSARecv directly on windows, hoping that this + works in all cases (unlike read/write/send/recv...). + - try to detect signals around a fork faster (test program by + Denis Bilenko). + - work around recent glibc versions that leak memory in realloc. + - rename ev::embed::set to ev::embed::set_embed to avoid clashing + the watcher base set (loop) method. + - rewrite the async/signal pipe logic to always keep a valid fd, which + simplifies (and hopefully correctifies :) the race checking + on fork, at the cost of one extra fd. + - add fat, msdos, jffs2, ramfs, ntfs and btrfs to the list of + inotify-supporting filesystems. + - move orig_CFLAGS assignment to after AC_INIT, as newer autoconf + versions ignore it before + (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908096). + - add some untested android support. + - enum expressions must be of type int (reported by Juan Pablo L). 4.11 Sat Feb 4 19:52:39 CET 2012 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: ev_timer_again now clears the pending status, as @@ -195,7 +292,7 @@ TODO: EV_STANDALONE == NO_HASSEL (do not use clock_gettime in ev_standalone) - implement ev_suspend and ev_resume. - new EV_CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications. - add documentation section about priorities. - - add a glossary to the dcoumentation. + - add a glossary to the documentation. - extend the ev_fork description slightly. - optimize a jump out of call_pending. |