Changes for version 3.9 - 2009-12-31

  • disable t/07* under automatic testing.
  • increase t/09* timeouts as netbsd has *horribly* broken select/kevent that *usually* sleep >>0.6s instead of 0.3.
  • add constants EV::FLAG_NOSIGFD, EV::FLAG_NOINOTIFY and EV::BACKEND_ALL.
  • (libev) signalfd is no longer used by default.
  • (libev) backport inotify code to C89.
  • (libev) inotify file descriptors could leak into child processes.
  • (libev) ev_stat watchers could keep an errornous extra ref on the loop.
  • (libev) take advantage of inotify_init1, if available.
  • (libev) the signal handling pipe wasn't always initialised under windows.
  • changed minimum glibc requirement from glibc 2.9 to 2.7, for signalfd.
  • (libev) only replace ev_stat.prev when we detect an actual difference.

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