I am pleased to announce libev 4.27! Distribution: http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/libev-4.27.tar.gz Documentation: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod?pathrev=rel-4_27 Changes: http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/Changes?pathrev=rel-4_27
This release mainly adds a new backend, "linuxaio", which uses the new event polling mechanism introduced with Linux 4.18 (but libev requires at least 4.19). The new backend should be ready for general use, but is not in the "recommended" backend set, i.e., it will not be chosen by default unless explicitly requested either by adding EVBACKEND_LINUXAIO to your flags when creating a loop, or by setting the LIBEV_FLAGS environment variable. The linuxaio backend will likely be enabled by default, and take precedence over epoll, in a future release (likely 4.28). For example, to run a program using linuxaio if available, but keep fallbacks to epoll and poll/select, you can run it like this: LIBEV_FLAGS=127 ./myprog Or to try forcing linuxaio: LIBEV_FLAGS=64 ./myprog Feedback appreciated. The complete Changes since 4.25 are: 4.27 Thu Jun 27 22:43:44 CEST 2019 - linux aio backend almost complete rewritten to work around its limitations. - epoll backend now mandatory for linux aio backend. - fail assertions more aggressively on invalid fd's detected in the event loop, do not just silently fd_kill in case of user error. - ev_io_start/ev_io_stop now verify the watcher fd using a syscall when EV_VERIFY is 2 or higher. 4.26 (EV only) - update to libecb 0x00010006. - new experimental linux aio backend (linux 4.18+). - removed redundant 0-ptr check in ev_once. - updated/extended ev_set_allocator documentation. - replaced EMPTY2 macro by array_needsize_noinit. - minor code cleanups. - epoll backend now uses epoll_create1 also after fork. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schm...@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/libev