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Changes for version 0.47

  • Support $listener->listen( v6only => ... )
  • Added new data-passing $loop->run and $loop->stop methods
  • BUGFIXES:
    • Emulate ->socketpair on MSWin32 by connecting to a temporary socket
    • Account for EWOULDBLOCK on MSWin32
    • Don't try reading STDIN to block awaiting a signal in unit-tests
    • Allow zero-delay Countdown timers (RT75954)
    • Handle dup2() collisions in ChildManager filehandle setups (RT75573)
    • Fix race condition in t/33process.t (RT75573)
    • Ensure Timer->stop doesn't fail if the timer isn't running (RT75571)
    • Possibly-fix some cygwin test failures (RT71706)
    • Ensure that 'passive' getaddrinfo hint is handled in both synchronous and numeric cases

Modules

Asynchronous event-driven programming
pass values into or out from an IO::Async::Routine
facilitates the execution of child processes
perform non-blocking socket connections
execute code asynchronously in child processes
read the tail of a file
call a function asynchronously
event callbacks for a non-blocking file descriptor
listen on network sockets for incoming connections
core loop of the IO::Async framework
use IO::Async with poll(2)
use IO::Async with select(2)
acceptance testing for IO::Async::Loop subclasses
resynchronise diverged control flow
base class for IO::Async event objects
event callback on exit of a child process
start and manage a child process
base class for transport-based protocols
stream-based protocols using lines of text
base class for stream-based protocols
performing name resolutions asynchronously
execute code in an independent sub-process
handle a serial pipeline of requests / responses (EXPERIMENTAL)
event callback on receipt of a POSIX signal
event callbacks and send buffering for a socket filehandle
event callbacks and write bufering for a stream filehandle
utility functions for use in test scripts
base class for Notifiers that use timed delays
event callback at a fixed future time
event callback after a fixed delay
event callback at regular intervals