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Changes for version 4.1 - 2011-10-09

  • IO::AIO did access uninitialised memory on unsuccessful stats.
  • (libeio) added syncfs syscall wrapper.
  • (libeio) set thread name on linux (ps -L/Hcx, top, gdb).
  • (libeio) support multiple indepenent working directories.
  • applied speling corrections by Nicholas Bamber.
  • tune treescan #threads and #outstanding requests a bit.
  • reduce the number of file descriptors in use at any one time in treescan, to avoid running out of them (and using too much ram).
  • take advantage of working directoriy abstractions in aio_scandir and treescan.
  • reduce compiled size by ~10% by not inlining some key functionality.
  • added --progress switch to treescan.

Modules

Asynchronous Input/Output