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Changes for version 3.8 - 2009-08-09

  • 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.

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