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Changes for version 4.00 - 2010-10-25

  • many API changes, see the manual.
  • (libev) lots and lots of bugfixes, see the ev documentation.
  • fix a bug where inotify usage would parse the same event multiple times, causing various forms of breakage.
  • greatly reduce stack usage for inotify (8kb to <0.5kb).
  • expose ev_depth and ev_verify via the XS API.
  • implement ev_cleanup watchers.
  • (libev) ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher.
  • (libev) disable poll backend on AIX.
  • (libev) rename EV_TIMEOUT to EV_TIMER.
  • (libev) add section on accept() problems to the manpage.
  • (libev) no child watchers on win32.
  • make code more aliasing compliant, in case perl is ever translated to C.
  • document the EV::CHECK runtime unavailability.
  • ported to minix 3.1.7.

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