Revision history for Perl extension EV
3.8 Sun Aug 9 15:30:10 CEST 2009
- implement $loop->signal/signal_ns.
- (libev) incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal
handler to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
- (libev) ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some
members, potentially causing crashes and memory corruption on
repated ev_default_destroy/ev_default_loop calls.
- (libev) take advantage of signalfd on GNU/Linux systems.
- (libev) document that the signal mask might be in an unspecified
state when using libev's signal handling.
- (libev) take advantage of some GNU/Linux calls to set
cloexec/nonblock on fd creation, to avoid race conditions.
- implement internal glue code to interface more efficiently
with AnyEvent.
3.7 Fri Jul 17 16:49:16 CEST 2009
- add EV::loop_verify and EV::loop_depth.
- use output filehandle for i/o watchers waiting
for EV_WRITE, otherwise input filehandle.
- use common schmorp.h header.
- add EV::Timer->remaining.
- allow for subclassing of EV::Loop (see the exciting
EV::Loop::Async module for an example).
- added EV::invoke_pending and EV::pending_count.
- (libev) ev_unloop and ev_loop wrongly used a global variable to
exit loops, instead of using a per-loop variable.
- (libev) the ev_set_io_collect_interval interpretation has changed.
- add new functionality: EV::invoke_pending, EV::pending_count.
- add $timer->remaining.
- add EV::loop_depth.
- (libev) calling unloop in fork/prepare watchers will no longer poll
for new events.
- (libev) use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime instead of _timeb on windows,
for slightly higher accuracy.
- (libev) actually 0-initialise struct sigaction when installing
signals.
3.6 Tue Apr 28 02:50:37 CEST 2009
- keepalive(0) could decrease the refcount of the loop
permanently.
- add ev_suspend/ev_resume, also make ev_now_update
accessible via the XS API.
- most EV::<eventtype> constants were missing and have been
added :/.
- add EV::VERSION_MAJOR/VERSION_MINOR constants.
- (libev) multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop
iteration will be invoked in the "correct" order now.
- (libev) do not leave the event loop early just because we have
no active watchers, fixing a problem when embedding a kqueue
loop that has active kernel events but no registered watchers
(reported by blacksand blacksand).
- (libev) correctly zero the idx values for arrays, so destroying
and reinitialising the default loop actually works (patch by
Malek Hadj-Ali).
- (libev) new EV::CUSTOM revents flag for use by applications.
- (libev) add documentation section about priorites.
- (libev) add a glossary to the dcoumentation.
- (libev) extend the ev_fork description slightly.
- (libev) optimize a jump out of call_pending.
- t/03_keepalive could fail when there was no actual error.
3.53 Sun Feb 15 02:38:20 CET 2009
- (libev) on win32, the event loop creation could randomly fail
due to an initialised variable having the wrong value.
- (libev) probe for CLOCK_REALTIME support at runtime as well and
fall back to gettimeofday if there is an error, to support older
operating systems with newer header files/libraries.
- prefer gettimeofday over clock_gettime by default.
3.52 Wed Jan 7 21:46:14 CET 2009
- (libev) fix some issues in the select backend when in fd_set mode.
- (libev) due to a thinko, instead of disabling everything but
select on the borked OS X platform, everything but select was
allowed (reported by Emanuele Giaquinta).
- (libev) actually verify that local and remote port are matching in
libev's socketpair emulation, which makes denial-of-service
attacks harder (but not impossible - it's windows). Make sure
it even works under vista, which thinks that getpeer/sockname
should return fantasy port numbers.
3.51 Wed Dec 24 23:01:59 CET 2008
- do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount
indicates that the callback has stolen them.
- (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
- (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially
avoid problems.
- (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
- (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the
only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
- play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only
on cpan tester machines.
3.49 Wed Nov 19 11:26:53 CET 2008
- fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
- increase timing even further, for the ever-overloaded cpan-tester
machines, and to the detriment of everybody else who wants a fast
make test.
- possible 5.6 compatibility.
- (libev) use inotify even on buggy kernels, but don't rely on it.
- (libev) use inotify only as an added hint on network filesystems.
3.48 Thu Oct 30 09:09:48 CET 2008
- (libev) use a generation counter to detect spurious epoll events
and recreate the kernel in such a case (sorry, it's slow, but
I didn't design epoll...).
- (libev) optimise away an EPOLL_CTL_ADD/MOD combo in the epoll
backend in some cases.
- (libev) use memset to initialise most arrays now and do away
with the init functions.
- speed up event callback invocation further (~15%), by
not creating the object reference each time.
- EV::sleep was documented, but not implemented. fun.
3.45 Tue Oct 21 22:20:39 CEST 2008
- (libev) disable inotify usage on linux <2.6.25 (kernel bug).
- (libev) ev_embed will now automatically follow fork.
- (libev) ev_once will now pass both io and timeout events to
the callback when both happen concurrently, instead of giving
one precedence.
- install C library documentation as EV::libev manpage (sorry, oesi).
- (libev) fix a minor performance bug in ev_stat handling.
3.44 Mon Sep 29 05:16:31 CEST 2008
- (libev) add EV::now_update and $loop->now_update.
3.431 Sun Jul 13 00:19:02 CEST 2008
- made the EV::embed callback optional again. reported by
Vladimir Timofeev.
3.43 Tue Jul 8 20:56:31 CEST 2008
- disabled warnings in EV.pm, the CHECK issue is now understood
and harmless.
3.42 Mon May 26 07:36:46 CEST 2008
- (libev) work around another bug in windows perls and
windows itself: failed connects do NOT set read or write
flags in select, but this version of libev will.
3.41 Thu May 22 01:39:40 CEST 2008
- (libev) fix many heap-related bugs (timers, periodics).
- (libev) improve timing stability of timers and periodics.
- expose ev_loop_verify to perl code.
- clarify documentation for periodic reschedule callbacks.
- verify that the passed callback argument is indeed a code
reference, for earlier error reporting and a nice calling
speed increase (as well as saving memory).
3.4 Tue May 20 21:51:55 CEST 2008
- (libev) work around both a windows bug and a bug in perl's
select on windows when not waiting for any file descriptors.
- bundle ev.pod into the tarball, just to increase its size
(and for the poor internetless person).
3.33 Sun May 18 12:43:04 CEST 2008
- (libev) use numerous enhancements such as a more
cache-friendly 4-heap and heap index caching for timers.
- remove undocumented ev_timer->at accessor.
3.31 Wed Apr 16 20:48:59 CEST 2008
- (libev) post-last-minute fix for ev_poll.c problem.
3.3 Wed Apr 16 19:04:47 CEST 2008
- (libev) linux eventfd support.
- (libev) inline more with C99 compilers.
- (libev) work around a number of bugs in valgrind.
- (libev) work around broken realloc on openbsd and darwin.
- added example to EV::MakeMaker manpage.
- add async_pending method.
3.2 Wed Apr 2 17:08:16 CEST 2008
- "ported" again to the Microsoft "C" language.
- relax testsuite timing for the benefit of freebsd users once more.
- fix EVAPI's ev_time and ev_sleep macros.
- (libev) fix select backend on 64 bit architetcures.
- (libev) ev_loop flags are now local to each invocation.
3.1 Sat Mar 8 11:41:14 CET 2008
- add ev_sync_* and ev_fork_* to EVAPI.h.
- provide EV::Embed->sweep method.
- new watcher type: async (not very useful in perl).
3.0 Mon Jan 28 13:23:11 CET 2008
- upgrade to libev-3.0.
- change child handler to incorporate tracing flag.
2.01 Mon Dec 31 01:59:19 CET 2007
- found a minor problem in the testsuite that is only
caught by new Test::Harness versions (reported by Andreas
König).
2.0 Sat Dec 22 17:47:03 CET 2007
- no longer force kqueue when enabled, enable it
on more systems (as its now by default not used on most).
- expose fork watchers.
- switch to libev's MULTIPLICITY API.
- use a slightly different include file name strategy.
- get rid of (unused) libevent emulation.
- 5% watcher management speedup due to callback optimisation
when inline closures are used, 5% slowdown due to multiplicity.
- very minimal support for dynamic event loops and embed watchers.
- fix name of prepare start/stop methods.
- create and export EV::sleep and EV::set_*_collect_interval.
- fix typos in manpage (Alex Efros).
1.86 Tue Dec 18 02:36:57 CET 2007
- add periodic->at methods.
1.85 Fri Dec 14 20:32:40 CET 2007
- further optimise epoll backend by adding a heuristic that
avoids EPOLL_CTL_DEL calls if possible.
- EV::signal->start was not async-signal safe.
- optimise start/stop when the fd hasn't changed.
1.8 Tue Dec 11 22:17:46 CET 2007
- API version 3:0.
- reduced fudge factor to zero for select, poll, epoll
and kqueue: your system better be posix-compliant
even in its extensions :->
- improve long-term numerical stability in periodic watchers
by introducing a separate offset value instead of reusing at.
- recalculate real/monotonic clocks before blocking fully
to avoid blocking for longer than necessary.
- fix bugs in the heap functions. this rarely lead to illegal
heap orderings.
1.72 Sat Dec 8 15:31:26 CET 2007
- add dummy loop arguments to some EVAPI functions
so that clients can use EV_A and EV_DEFAULT.
- expose ev_clear_pending.
- renamed trigger to invoke.
1.71 Fri Dec 7 19:10:24 CET 2007
- changed/implemented idle watcher priority.
- allow out-of-range priorities to be set.
- fix ->priority to actually work on started watchers.
- improved testsuite.
1.6 Wed Dec 5 15:06:20 CET 2007
- add a missing SPAGAIN.
- ripped out EV::DNS, use EV::ADNS for a better backend.
- make ev_time callable from EVAPI.h.
- add EV::loop_count.
- some space optimisations.
1.5 Wed Nov 28 20:19:09 CET 2007
- add inotify backend.
- make testsuite even less sensible to timing issues,
add more stat tests.
- add ->attr, ->prev, ->stat calls to stat watcher.
1.4 Tue Nov 27 17:35:27 CET 2007
- work around a linux 2.4 kernel bug in child handlers.
- implement stat watcher interface.
- implement fork watcher interface.
- io->set did not keep the fh alive.
- actively check signal numbers/names to be valid.
- cleanups, minor fixes, new bugs.
- work around windows bugs in the testsuite.
1.3 Sun Nov 25 10:46:57 CET 2007
- stopping idle/check/prepare watchers could cause data corruption.
- implement and document EV::once.
- improved documentation, verify that netbsd indeed has the only
working kqueue implementation (out of darwin, freebsd, netbsd and
openbsd). Praise them!
- fix the data method so it might work.
- expose ev_ref/ev_unref to the C API.
- expose ref/unref in form of the ->keepalive method to perl.
- minor bugfixes and portability fixes.
1.2 Thu Nov 22 05:44:09 CET 2007
- disable kqueue by default on !netbsd, as its broken on freebsd,
darwin and openbsd and thus almost everywhere.
- add some allowance in t/01_timer.t for the uneven monotonic
vs. realtime clock tick on at least freebsd.
- add -lsocket -lnsl on solaris in case the perl guy forgot to
configure them.
1.1 Wed Nov 21 06:08:48 CET 2007
- improved timer test to include periodics and
withstand small timing variations.
- many minor tweaks to libev.
1.0 Fri Nov 16 14:51:59 CET 2007
- require AnyEvent update if AnyEvent is installed.
- add solaris 10 port-based backend.
- add child_ns and fix check_ns.
- treat yes/no as enforcement, not as hint, when configuring,
documentation update (reported by Andy Grundman).
0.9 Wed Nov 14 22:24:49 CET 2007
- changed LIBEV_METHODS to LIBEV_FLAGS and the
way this is used inside libev.
- many, many bugfixes.
- add unloop constants.
- add timer test.
- ev_loop will now terminate immediately when no watchers are active.
0.8 Mon Nov 12 02:28:46 CET 2007
- fix "testsuite" again :().
- fix check/idle/prepare/child watcher stop.
- enourmously many fixes.
- rewritten select backend (mostly for win32).
- cache socket handles on win32.
- provide considerably finer control over configuration.
0.7 Fri Nov 9 20:37:58 CET 2007
- move AnyEvent adaptor into the AnyEvent module.
- use private copy of evdns.[ch].
- many minor fixes.
0.6 Thu Nov 8 18:23:43 CET 2007
- (libev) better native win32 support.
- fix idle watchers.
- implement and document periodic reschedule callbacks.
- do not run dns test on !linux platforms (actually to exclude win32).
- fix (unused in EV :) poll backend.
0.51 Tue Nov 6 19:50:22 CET 2007
- fix kqueue/poll compilation issue.
- work around design issues in kqueue.
- enable kqueue by default, seems to work.
0.5 Tue Nov 6 17:37:44 CET 2007
- add signal and pid mutators.
- add rstatus/rpid accessors.
- updated libev (lower cost for clock monotonic).
- support event priorities.
- try to find SIG_SIZE on perls that don't have it (Slaven Rezic).
- improved signal handling, fixed child watchers.
- experimentally add kqueue backend, completely untested.
- ported to cygwin and native win32.
0.1 Thu Nov 1 18:29:22 CET 2007
- replaced libevent by libev (total rewrite).
- many bugfixes w.r.t. libevent.
- new watcher types: periodic, check, prepare, child, idle.
- performance optimisations.
- added interactive configuration.
- added fork support.
0.03 Mon Oct 29 20:52:50 CET 2007
- add timed_io convenience constructors.
- improve documentation.
- support signal names in addition to signal numbers.
- support signal anyevent watchers.
- vastly improved testsuite (its all relative :).
- add EV::MakeMaker, beginning of C-level API.
- force strings to byte form.
0.02 Sun Oct 28 07:40:21 CET 2007
- call $EV::DIED in case a callback throws an exception.
- add const char * to typemap for possible 5.6 compatibility.
0.01 Sat Oct 27 19:10:18 CEST 2007
- initial release.
0.00 Fri Oct 26 11:12:57 CEST 2007
- original version; cloned from JSON::XS