Revision history for Linux::AIO

This module has been mostly superseded by IO::AIO, which is API compatible.

• works on: ia32, amd64, alpha, sparc64.
• likely works on: s390, m68k, arm.
• unlikely to work on: ia64, hppa, v850, sparc32, mips64, ppc64.

1.9 Thu Feb 2 00:46:46 CET 2006

• added patch by Nicholas Clark to force optimization, which is required for syscalls to be inlined on ia32.

1.8 Wed Aug 17 18:56:14 CEST 2005

• return immediately from poll_wait if nreqs==0.
• use <linux/unistd.h> and try to make it work.
• replaced tests by better ones by Brad Fitzpatrick.
• fix a bug where the data scalar would be truncated if the data offset is != 0.

1.71 Sun Jul 10 19:11:36 CEST 2005

• aio_readahead was missing in 1.7.
• xs fixes for some perls.
• remind people to use absolute paths.
• add reference to IO::AIO, its brother.

1.7 Sun Jul 10 01:40:00 CEST 2005

• further cleanups and simplifications.
• new functions: aio_fsync, aio_fdatasync, aio_readahead.
• vastly improved documentation.

1.6 Fri Jul 8 01:17:04 CEST 2005

• added changes for alpha, ia64, sparc64, hppa, v850 (thanks to Stefan Traby who dedusted his old machines).
• added t/02_read.t.

1.51 Sat Jul 2 15:18:21 CEST 2005

• last release was borked.
• killing threads increases nreqs count infinitely.
• fixed a bug in queueing => many outstanding requests lead to starvation.
• new function Linux::AIO::poll_wait.
• documented Linux::AIO::max_parallel.

1.41 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005

• change of contact address.

1.4 Sat Jan 15 01:04:27 CET 2005

• clarify licensing (same terms as perl itself).

1.3 Sat Aug 7 17:25:31 CEST 2004

• ported to AMD64, possibly other 64 bit architecturs (inspired by Joshua Hoblitt).
• removed support for old libcs, kernels (2.2).

1.2 Sun Jul 18 12:54:43 CEST 2004

• do not clone signal handlers.
• when the parent thread dies, kill the child threads.
• added aio_unlink support (Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>)

1.1 Fri May 7 02:57:36 CEST 2004

• the number of outstanding requests was limited by the pipe buffer size. this limit has been removed.
• improve documentation of min_parallel.
• one thread will now be started by default.

1.01 Thu May 6 14:16:08 CEST 2004

• better support threaded perls.

1.0 Wed May 5 15:54:23 CEST 2004

• improved the documentation and made a 1.0 release. Whoopa!

0.2 Wed May 5 12:13:02 CEST 2004

• updates for 2.6 headers (syscalls were renamed).

0.111 Sat May 18 23:47:12 CEST 2002

• print a notice that this module won't run on lnux <2.4.

0.11 Fri May 17 04:33:23 CEST 2002

• actually fix the module to work on x86 (doesn't work on most other architectures, though).

0.1 Tue Apr 2 04:35:28 CEST 2002

• use pread/pwrite instead of lseek+read/write.
• fixed syscall prototypes.
• add stat/lstat calls.
• fixed max_parallel deadlock problem.
• beginning of a testsuite.
• fixed aio_close.
• paths are now properly saved.

0.011 Tue Dec 25 03:02:30 CET 2001

• make it compile with 5.6.1 and maybe older versions. Boy is it ugly now.

0.01 Mon Oct 8 14:57:59 CEST 2001

• fixed syntax errors so it compiles with gcc-2.95.4 as well.

0.002

• added Changes, aio_open, aio_close.

0.001

• original version, a dire hack.