The EVUTIL_CLOSESOCKET() macro required you to include unistd.h in your
source for POSIX. We might as well turn it into a function: an extra
function call is going to be cheap in comparison with the system call.
We retain the EVUTIL_CLOSESOCKET() macro as an alias for the new
evutil_closesocket() function.
(commit message from email by Nick and Sebastian)
Previously, there was no good way to request different kinds of lock
(say, read/write vs writeonly or recursive vs nonrecursive), or for a
lock function to signal failure (which would be important for a
trylock mode).
This patch revises the lock API to be a bit more useful. The older
lock calls are still supported for now.
We also add a debugging mode to catch common errors in using the
locking APIs.
Libevent's current timeout code is relatively optimized for the
randomly scattered timeout case, where events are added with their
timeouts in no particular order. We add and remove timeouts with
O(lg n) behavior.
Frequently, however, an application will want to have many timeouts
of the same value. For example, we might have 1000 bufferevents,
each with a 2 second timeout on reading or writing. If we knew this
were always the case, we could just put timeouts in a queue and get
O(1) add and remove behavior. Of course, a queue would give O(n)
performance for a scattered timeout pattern, so we don't want to
just switch the implementation.
This patch gives the user the ability to explicitly tag certain
timeout values as being "very common". These timeout values have a
cookie encoded in the high bits of their tv_usec field to indicate
which queue they belong on. The queues themselves are each
triggered by an entry in the minheap.
See the regress_main.c code for an example use.
svn:r1517
This is code by Chris Davis, with changes to get the unit tests failing less aggressively.
The unit tests for this code do not completely pass yet; Chris is looking into that. If they aren't passing by the next release, I'll turn off this code.
svn:r1499
This code adds a new Bufferevent type that is only compiled when the
openssl library is present. It supports using an SSL object and an
event alert mechanism, which can either be an fd or an underlying
bufferevent.
There is still more work to do: the unit tests are incomplete, and we
need to support flush and shutdown much better. Sometimes events are
generated needlessly: this will hose performance.
There's a new encrypting proxy in sample/le-proxy.c.
This code has only been tested on OSX, and nowhere else.
svn:r1382
The big win here is that we can get process-level isolation.
This has been tested to work okay on at least Linux and Win32. Only
the tests in regress.c have been converted wrapped in the new wrapper
functions; the others are still on the old system.
svn:r1073
