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Changes for version 4.28 - 2019-11-19

  • (libev) fix ev_port backend, thanks to David H. Gutteridge for
  • (libev) many bugfixes in linuxaio backend.
  • (libev) experimental io uring interface. reminding me to actually release the fix.
  • try to name ev.h more explicitly, to hopefully improve portability.
  • opportunistically round up wait times for poll and epoll backend, to avoid unnecessary loop iterations.
  • add build dependency on ev_linuxaio.c.
  • quickly (re)-ported to minix 3.3 before minix crashed again.

Documentation

a high performance full-featured event loop written in C

Modules

EV
perl interface to libev, a high performance full-featured event loop
MakeMaker glue for the C-level EV API